Abstract
In today’s world, where software applications have evolved from mainframe-based applications to client/server-based distributed systems, the need for effective, easy to develop, and open management systems is becoming painfully evident. The goal of this work is to develop cost-effective methods and tools for managing software in a manner analogous to the way in which network elements are managed in today’s networks. In order to provide a flexible, interoperable, standards-compliant solution to this problem, we have developed an infrastructure that conforms to the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) suite of standards. The TMN is based on the OSI/CMISE systems management standards. Although telecommunications providers, both in the domestic and international markets, have been pressing equipment and operations systems suppliers to start developing TMN-compliant products, the supplier community has been reluctant to move towards OSI/CMISE management systems, largely due to the difficulty and expense of implementing OSI/ CMISE interfaces to management applications.
This document gives a description of the components of an infrastructure that provides a middleware layer which shields software developers from much of the complexity of OSI/CMISE management implementation. It presents techniques that can be used to simplify the process of implementing TMN-compliant interfaces. This layer will considerably ease the process of incorporating standards-based management interfaces into software components for the purpose of management.
Chapter PDF
References
Case, G., Fedor, M., Schoffstall, M., Davin, J. (1990), J. (1990) “A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)”, Request for Comments 1157.
CCITT Recommendation X.208 (1988), ISO/IEC 8824, Spec. of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN. 1 ).
CCITT Recommendation X.711 (1991), ISO/IEC 9596–1, Information Technology - OSI, Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) - Part 1: Specification.
CCITT Recommendation X.721 (1992a), ISO/IEC 10165–2, Information Technology - OSI - Management Information Services - Structure of Management Information - Part 2: Definition of Management Information.
CCITT Recommendation X.722 (1992b), ISO/IEC 10165–4, Information Technology - OSI - Management Information Services - Structure of Management Information - Part 4: Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects.
CCITT Recommendation X.734 (1992c), ISO/IEC 10164–4, Information Technology–OSI–Systems Management: Event Report Management Function.
CCITT Recommendation M.3100 (1992d), Generic Network Information Model.
Chadha, R., Wuu, S. (1996a), “Managing Distributed Systems using OSI Management”, Proceedings of the Second Intl. IEEE Workshop on Systems Management, Toronto Ontario, Canada, pp. 117–126.
Chadha, R., Wuu, S. (1996b), “Service Management Infrastructure”,Bellcore TM-25364.
Deri, L., Mattei, E. (1995), “An object-oriented approach to the implementation of OSI management”, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 27, pp. 1367–1385.
Geiger, G., Allen, W., Majtenyi, A., Reder, P. (1994), “IBM cmipWorks: Technical paper”,IBM.
Iona (1996), “Welcome to Iona”,IONA Technologies Ltd., http://www.iona.ie. OMG (1994), “Common Object Services Specification”,Volume I, OMG Document Number 94–1–1.
OMG (1995), “Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2.0 Specification”. Pavlou, G. Bhatti, S. N., Knight, G. (1993), “The OSI Management Information Service: User’s Manual, Version 1.0”.
X/Open (1994), “GDMO to OMG IDL Specification Translation Algorithm”,X/ Open Company Ltd.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1997 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Chadha, R., Wuu, SY. (1997). Incorporating Manageability into Distributed Software. In: Lazar, A.A., Saracco, R., Stadler, R. (eds) Integrated Network Management V. IM 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35180-3_36
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35180-3_36
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4757-5519-0
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-35180-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive