Integrated Management of Transport and Commutation Resources over the Network Layer

Digital Object Identifier 10.32754/JMT.2019.1.05 27 1Abstract—In the information and automation era, the activities of today’s society are based on communications media with fast and secure transmission of information. Because of the information dependency, today’s networking solutions must transport more data traffic and deliver it in a fast and efficient way. It is useless to assign an appropriate epithet to the degree of importance that efficient and accurate design and the use of a management mechanism appropriate to the necessity, have in the context of the current society. The usage of programming via Python for increasing management capabilities is required in order to do high performance management of a network. One of the most important aspects of managing a large scale network that uses various platforms bought from different vendors is how to manage all these systems using a unique management platform. The current paper is concerned with Python capabilities put to good use, to develop an Integrated Management platform that performs the management of the devices that form or are part of the telecommunications network. The topologies and the script programming were done in GNS3 using Ubuntu Docker Containers with Python installed, to remotely configure CISCO IOS MultyLayer Switches and Routers.