Self-Management in Heterogenous Networks Using a Service-Oriented Architecture
Claudia Baltes, Patrick Koppen, Paul Friedrich Müller · 2007
Self-Managing Networks promise to help network administrators in their daily work and are less error-prone. This paper introduces an architecture for monitoring a local area network and protecting it against misuse. A regulatory system to automatically separate or restrict a malicious host from the network is introduced. Whereby the focus is to support even heterogenous networks. Various sensors like an IDS or accounting system may make the decision that a host should be detached or rate-limited. A request is sent to the regulatory system and the problem is to automatically determine the best way to enforce this regulation as there are various possibilities e.g. disabling a port or applying packet filters. Modules for locating the host and configuring the network devices complete the presented solution.