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Network and system management aim at planning, surveying, and coordinating resources of communication networks and systems, in order to ensure availability and reliability of the systems and services involved. The structure of both networks and systems, however, is dramatically changing, and the overall complexity is rapidly increasing. Today, it is therefore aimed at finding new approaches to management, and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) has shown to offer new capabilities for management purposes. A critical issue in deploying CORBA as a management middleware is the integration of existing networks and systems into the management solution aimed at. This paper discusses the problems involved with the integration process of legacy applications, especially with regard to the management aspects. The concept of management wrappers is introduced and it is shown how it enables a flexible management approach based on CORBA.
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Lipperts, S., Thißen, D. (1999). CORBA Wrappers for A-Posteriori Management. In: Kutvonen, L., König, H., Tienari, M. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II. DAIS 1999. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35565-8_13
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