The Management of Data, Events, and Information Presentation for Network Management
Masum Z. Hasan · 1996
The purpose of a network management (NM) system is to monitor and control a network. Monitoring and control functions entail dealing with large volumes of data, events, and the presentation of relevant information on a management station. In this thesis we focus on data and events management and information presentation issues of an NM system. Existing NM systems either use traditional database systems which are not well suited for an NM system or they lack intelligent event and information presentation management frameworks. None of the systems provides a unified framework for managing data, events and information presentation tasks on an NM station. We believe that the complexities of network management can be reduced substantially by exploiting, enhancing and combining the features of new generation database systems such as active temporal and database visualization systems. In this thesis we show that an active database system where active behaviors are specified as Event-Conditio...