Management Information Models Integration: FromExisting Approaches to New Unifying Guidelines

  • Authors:
  • Anne-Isabelle Riviere;Michelle Sibilla

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The evolution towards a higher-level managementrequires management information obtained from physicalto application elements as well as distinct resources(e.g., PC, UNIX workstations). This issue is difficult because the modeling of managementinformation is realized in many different ways and theinformation model integration represents an acutecurrent concern. In this paper we discuss thisintegration issue by specifying the sources of ManagementInformation Base (MIB) heterogeneity and identifyingtheoretical means characterizing approaches dealing withinformation models integration. Based on these results, the analysis of some existingintegration approaches led to dissatisfactions thusjustifying our contribution: integration guidelines andtheir implementation.