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Management agents play an important role in distributed systems and network management. Agents are used to gather information, create, delete, and change the state of managed objects, and forward notifications of events from managed objects to managers. All management agents perform the same basic operations, yet there is no precise specification of the capabilities and architecture of generic management agents. As a result, developing management agents at present is difficult and time-consuming This paper presents the design of a generic management agent and describes the architecture and service interface of such an agent. We also present an implementation of a management agent creation tool for automating the creation of management agents (CMIP, SNMP and other) which all bear the generic agent architecture. The use of this tool greatly reduces the time needed, and therefore the cost of developing management agents.
This research work is supported by the IBM Center for Advanced Studies and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Perrow, G.S., Hong, J.W., Lutfiyya, H.L., Bauer, M.A. (1995). The Abstraction and Modelling of Management Agents. In: Sethi, A.S., Raynaud, Y., Faure-Vincent, F. (eds) Integrated Network Management IV. IM 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34890-2_40
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