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Future network management systems will operate in large, wide-area networks created from heterogeneous and autonomous networks. Such an open environment will increase the complexity of network management to the extent that it has common requirements with any wide-area distributed application. To handle such complexity, network management can be modelled using an RM-ODP approach. The paper presents an ODP-based type management which was formulated to support interoperability of distributed applications and shows how network management can benefit from it. Also type templates of managed objects defined byGDMO have been related to the odp-based type description.
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Les systèmes de gestion du futur s’appliqueront à des réseaux de grande étendue créés à partir de réseaux hétérogènes et autonomes. Un tel environnement ouvert augmente la complexité des systèmes de gestion de réseaux qui doivent être spécifiés de manière similaire à toute application distribuée. Pour pallier cette complexité, la gestion de réseaux peut être modélisée en utilisant une approche fondée sur le modèle de référence du traitement réparti ouvert (OPD-RM). L’article présente une gestion de type fondée sur l’ODP qui a été formulée pour permettre l’interopérabilité des applications distribuées et montre comment la gestion des réseaux peut en tirer parti. De plus, les modèles types d’objets gérés définis conformément aux lignes directrices pour la définition d’objets gérés (GDMO) sont comparés à la description des types fondée sur l’ODP.
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Indulska, J., Raymond, K. Application of ODP and type management concepts to network management. Ann. Télécommun. 49, 57–64 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999644
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Key words
- Network management
- Computer network
- Interconnected network
- Distributed processing
- Heterogeneity
- Open systems
- Reference model
- Data type
- Open system interconnection