Large Scale Deployment a Mobile Agent Approach to Network Management

In this paper, we describe a possible approach for using mobile agents to manage a group of networked devices. Our system goes one step further from the traditional one-to- one device management setting by providing a one-to-many architecture able to perform simple administrative tasks on behalf of the user. We show how the use of mobile agents eases the task of maintaining, monitoring and managing a very large number of devices and consequently, reduces the work load of the people in charge of these devices.