Distributed management by delegation
Distributed management by delegation
Modelling Management Policy using Enriched Managed Objects
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.6 Third International Symposium on Integrated Network Management with participation of the IEEE Communications Society CNOM and with support from the Institute for Educational Services
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As today's businesses become more dependent on its networks and computing infrastructure for service delivery, failures in that infrastructure translate into business losses. Mechanisms are needed to control the behaviour of the ever more complex and heterogeneous distributed computing infrastructure. Management Policies, derived from business goals and objectives, give structure to the use of technology and promises to add significant value towards the management of today's complex distributed computing environments. Due to the Intelligent Agent concept's ability to facilitate the delegation of management functionality to autonomous agents operating on behalf of a management application, it has become one of the key technologies envisaged to realise the vision of Distributed Systems Management. A framework for applying the concept of Intelligent Agents, as extensively defined within the AI community, to implement Systems Management Policies, is proposed. A number of new concepts and mechanisms to facilitate the implementation, is introduced.