The open book: a practical perspective on OSI
The open book: a practical perspective on OSI
Implementing Remote Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The simple book: an introduction to management of TCP/IP-based internets
The simple book: an introduction to management of TCP/IP-based internets
High-level language debugging for concurrent programs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Implementing remote procedure calls
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A distributed system architecture for a distributed application environment
IBM Systems Journal
Reference architecture for distributed systems management
IBM Systems Journal
Investigating monitoring configurations
SAC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Active Management Framework for Distributed Multimedia Systems
Journal of Network and Systems Management
An Architecture for Building Scalable, Web-BasedManagement Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Programmable Agents for Active Distributed Monitoring
DSOM '99 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Active Technologies for Network and Service Management
An investigation of monitoring configurations
CASCON '95 Proceedings of the 1995 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Monitoring overhead in distributed systems: visualization and estimation techniques
CASCON '96 Proceedings of the 1996 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Network management views using delegated agents
CASCON '96 Proceedings of the 1996 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Towards a new distributed programming environment (CORDS)
CASCON '91 Proceedings of the 1991 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
CASCON '92 Proceedings of the 1992 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research - Volume 2
The role of directory services in network management
CASCON '92 Proceedings of the 1992 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research - Volume 2
CASCON '92 Proceedings of the 1992 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research - Volume 2
An integrated distributed systems management architecture
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
Using objects to distribute configuration management tasks
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
On distributed system management
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: distributed computing - Volume 2
CONMan: taking the complexity out of network management
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGCOMM workshop on Internet network management
CONMan: a step towards network manageability
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Combining Virtual Organization and Local Policies for Automated Configuration of Grid Services
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Self-Organization and Autonomic Informatics (I)
Toward integrating IP multicasting in internet network management protocols
Computer Communications
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Network management systems built on a client/server model centralize responsibilities in client manager processes, with server agents playing restrictive support roles. As a result, managers must micro-manage agents through primitive steps, resulting in ineffective distribution of management responsibilities, failure-prone management bottlenecks, and limitations for real time responsiveness. We present a more flexible paradigm, the Manager-Agent Delegation (MAD) framework. It supports the ability to extend the functionality of servers (agents) at execution time, allowing flexible distribution of management responsibilities in a distributed environment. MAD can store and instantiate delegated scripts, and provides a concurrent runtime environment, where they can execute asynchronously without requiring the manager's intervention. A delegation protocol allows a manager to transfer programs, create process instances, and control their execution. We describe the delegation model, its application to network management, and the design of a prototype implementation.