Software architecture in practice
Software architecture in practice
Performance management of public ATM networks: a scaleable and flexible approach
Proceedings of the fifth IFIP/IEEE international symposium on Integrated network management V : integrated management in a virtual world: integrated management in a virtual world
Using a classification of management policies for policy specification and policy transformation
Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on Integrated network management IV
Exploiting Code Mobility in Decentralized and Flexible Network Management
MA '97 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents
A Practical Perspective on TMN Evolution
IS&N '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligence and Services in Networks: Paving the Way for an Open Service Market
Policy Definition Language for Automated Management of Distributed Systems
SMW '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Systems Management (SMW'96)
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Network management challenges the frontiers of software engineering due to its scale and its complexity. The need for architectures that support understanding and reasoning about its problems and systems is vital. This paper describes a new software architecture being developed to support network management. The architecture will create more flexible systems with minimal dependencies between their sub-systems. Together with the definition of open interfaces, this will allow easier integration of third-party software and will lead to a new market for management functionality. The architecture promotes fine-grained distribution as a means to achieve scalability where necessary, but attempts to avoid over-specification by supporting a collection of patterns from which a system designer can choose.