Cooperative management in open distributed systems

Authors:
V Tschammer;T Magedanz;M Tschichholz;A Wolisz
Affiliations:
GMD FOKUS, Hardenbergplatz 2, D-10623 Berlin, Germany;Institute for Open Communication Systems, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany;GMD FOKUS, Hardenbergplatz 2, D-10623 Berlin, Germany;Institute for Telecommunication, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Venue:
Computer Communications
Year:
1994

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Abstract

We describe the need for the collaboration of managers in cooperative applications where the federative application context must be harmonized with the hierarchical component environment. A cooperative management concept is introduced which augments existing hierarchical management policies and procedures. The concept includes proposals for federations, 'manager' domains and collaboration procedures. It relates a group of managers to a group of managed objects, and proposes rules for collaboration between the managers before executing operations on the objects. Some possible application areas, including inter-domain information management, customer network management, the management of virtual private networks (VPN) and trading in open distributed processing (ODP), are discussed. A related approach is described for comparison. Remarks on the importance of adequate access control mechanisms and on the need for the dynamic creation and modification of manager groups are added.