QUIET: A Methodology for Autonomous Software Deployment using Mobile Agents

  • Authors:
  • Umar Manzoor;Samia Nefti

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Every software setup has an installation wizard that helps the user to install/un-install the software on PCs. Typically user interaction is required and the process cannot proceed without user input. Silent Unattended Installation Package Manager (SUIPM) automates the process of software installation/un-installation and can be used to deploy any software silently without user interaction. In this paper, we have proposed A Methodology for Autonomous Software Deployment using Mobile Agents, which deploys silent unattended installation/un-installation packages efficiently and smartly on networks without user interaction or intervention, suitable for network of networks, commonly known as CAN (campus area network). The system once initialized is fully autonomous and deployment of the software(s) is performed efficiently and autonomously with the help of mobile agents. We have evaluated this architecture on the university campus having 7 laboratories equipped with 20-300 PCs in various laboratories. Results are very promising and support the implementation of the solution.