EWS-Based Management Application Interface and Integration Mechanisms for Web-Based Element Management

  • Authors:

  • Hong-Taek Ju;Mi-Joung Choi;James W. Hong

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH, San 31 Hyoja, Namgu, Pohang 790-784 Korea. {juht, mjchoi, jwkhong}@postech.ac.kr;Department of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH, San 31 Hyoja, Namgu, Pohang 790-784 Korea. {juht, mjchoi, jwkhong}@postech.ac.kr;Department of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH, San 31 Hyoja, Namgu, Pohang 790-784 Korea. {juht, mjchoi, jwkhong}@postech.ac.kr

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Web-based network element management provides an administrator with the ability to configure and monitor network devices over the Internet using a Web browser. The most direct way to accomplish this is to embed a Web server [Embedded Web Server (EWS)] into a network device, and use that server to provide a Web-based management user interface constructed with HTML, graphics, Java and other features common to Web browsers. In this paper we present EWS-based management application interface mechanisms for use between embedded management applications and embedded Web servers. We propose a guideline for choosing an efficient interface mechanism, which is based on the characteristics of management information and Web documents. A Web-based management user interface through embedded Web servers has many advantages such as ubiquity, platform independence and user-friendliness. In order to be truly useful, a Web-based management user interface must have a low development cost and a short development time. We provide effective integration mechanisms for each interface. We validate these mechanisms by implementing them in an Internet router.