Tcl extensions for network management applications
Jürgen Schönwälder, Horst Langendörfer · 1995
This paper presents extensions to the Tool Command Language (Tcl) that have been designed to implement network management applications. Using Tcl, we were able to make our network management applications highly extensible. Experience has shown that many useful applications can be written with a few lines of Tcl code. Site specific adaptations are possible at very low cost. We have used our extensions to implement smart network management agents that can receive and execute management scripts provided by other management stations or agents. 1 Introduction Network management is an area which has become very important over the last decade as todays networks have become critical for the success of many organizations. Network management software is designed to cope with problems from the size, complexity and heterogeneity of todays multi-protocol networks. The Internet and the OSI networking communities have developed network management architectures, which define the structure of network ...