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The purpose of a network management system is to provide smooth functioning of a large heterogeneous network through monitoring and controlling of network behavior. ISO/OSI has defined six management functionalities that aid in overall management of a network: configuration, fault, performance, security, directory and accounting management. These management functionalities provide tools for overall graceful functioning of the network on both day-to-day and long-term basis. All of the functionalities entail dealing with huge volumes of data. So network management in a sense is management of data, like a DBMS is used to manage data. This is precisely our purpose in this paper to show that by viewing the network as a conceptual global database the six management functionalities can be performed in a declarative fashion through specification of management functionalities as data manipulation statements.
But to be able to do so we need a model that incorporates the unique properties of network management related data and functions. We propose a model of a database that combines and extends the features of active and temporal databases as a model for a network management database. This model of a network management database allows us to specify network management functions as Event-Condition-Action rules. The event in the rule is specified using our proposed event specification language.
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Hasan, M.Z. (1995). An Active Temporal Model for Network Management Databases. 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_45
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