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We have developed a management agent that adapts the delegation concept to achieve efficient distributed network management. In conventional delegation, a network management operator details management operations in an operation-script that describes management operation flow and provides such network management functions as event management and path tracing, in the form of function objects. The operator sends this script to agents to execute. In our approach, the operator sends only a script skeleton describing management operation flow alone; function objects are built into the agents themselves. This helps keep management traffic low. Each function object contains three operational objects: enhanced, primitive, and communication. Each enhanced operational object (EOO) provides a script skeleton with a network management function. A primitive operational object (POO) provides an EOO with managed object (MO) access functions. A communication operational object (EOO) provides an EOO with a mechanism for accessing the functions of other remote EOOs. This design increases the efficiency of the delegation approach as applied to network management systems. We have tested our design by applying it to path tracing and found that it works well enough to suggest the feasibility of applying it to such other distributed network management functions as connection establishment and release, fault isolation, and service provisioning.
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Suzuki, M., Kiriha, Y., Nakai, S. (1997). Delegation Agents: Design and Implementation. 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_55
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