Network Service Management with Constraint Technology
Mihaela Sabin, Eugene C. Freuder · University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) · 1999
Performant network management platforms have a dis-tributed architecture of diverse agents, which are highly specialized in monitoring connection nodes, communi-cation links, computing systems, and business applica-tions along with their supporting services. However, managing enterprise networks is mainly characterized by "thresholding " solutions, where device or applica-tion events are monitored, logged, and filtered through predefined threshold levels. It seems that the challenge raised by Marshall Rose, author of the Internet man-agement protocol, a few years ago, remains actual (Rose 1993), and that there is still a tremendous need for "thinkers", or management tools that can turn "data into information". Knowledge-based network management systems do