A Simple Typology of Distributed Network Management Paradigms
Jean‐Philippe Martin‐Flatin, Simon Znaty · 1997
Over the past few years, network management has steadily evolved from a centralized model, where all the management processing takes place on a single network management station, to distributed models, where management is distributed over a number, potentially large, of nodes. Among distributed models, one, epitomized by the SNMPv2 and CMIP protocols, has been around for several years, whereas a flurry of new ones, based on mobile code, distributed objects or cooperative agents, have only recently emerged. This paper reviews all major network management paradigms known to date, and proposes a simple typology to classify them. Keywords: Distributed Network Management, Mobile Code, Management by Delegation, Distributed Objects, Intelligent Agents, Cooperative Agents. 1 Introduction Network management has thrived on centralized or weakly distributed hierarchical models for many years. Soon after the advent of open systems in the second half of the 1980's, proprietary solutions gradually...