A development framework for network management systems based on reconfigurable components

This contribution presents a prototype of network management framework based on distributed plug-in component technology. The main innovative aspect is the exhibited capacity to facilitate network management applications to be reconfigured at runtime by changing the communication channels used by the constituent components to communicate. This adds great flexibility because the system functionality is not “closed” at the system design time. The ensemble constitutes a development framework for component-based management applications. A scenario is presented to demonstrate the system in action