Application MIBs for Network Operation Centers Collaborative Management
George Zolla, Daniel R. Dolk, Alex Bordetsky · Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School) · 2002
At present there is very little coordination between Network Operation Centers (NOC) across organizational domains or across the Internet. Our goal is to create a model to facilitate this process. We introduce the concept of Application MIBs and Knowledge Management Gateway for structuring knowledge management across multiple NOCs. SNMP Network Element (NE) Management Information Base (MIB) agents are used to gather network information and application MIBs are used as a metric for a Mission-Policy- Metrics-{Sense-Analyze-Adapt} feedback loop that is used to analyze the effectiveness of network operations. We believe that the combination of collaborative technology, enhanced application MIBs, and multiple agents that execute the relationships of the adaptation loop will create a desirable knowledge management architecture for Knowledge Management Gateways. This architecture will not only enhance NOC efficiency but could also lead to prioritization of network applications and the creation of a multiple level NOC collaborative environment.