Open AccessDistributed Management of High-Layer Protocols and Network Services through a Programmable Agent-Based Architecture
Author(s) -
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary,
Luis Felipe Balbinot,
R. Storch,
F. Wendt,
Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
ISBN - 3-540-42302-8
DOI - 10.1007/3-540-47728-4_21
Subject(s) - computer science , scripting language , simple network management protocol , protocol (science) , trace (psycholinguistics) , layer (electronics) , architecture , network management , delegation , software engineering , computer network , distributed computing , operating system , medicine , art , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , alternative medicine , organic chemistry , pathology , political science , law , visual arts
This paper proposes an architecture for distributed management of upper layer protocols and network services called Trace. Based on the IETF Script MIB, the architecture provides mechanisms for the delegation of management tasks to mid-level managers, which interact with monitoringand action agents to have them executed. The paper introduces PTSL (Protocol Trace Specification Language), a graphical/ textual language created to allow network managers to specify protocol traces. The specifications are used by mid-level managers to program the monitoring agents. Once programmed, these agents start to monitor the occurrence of the traces. The information obtained is analyzed by the mid-level managers, which may ask action agents for the execution of procedures (Perl scripts), makingthe automation of several management tasks possible.
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