Research on IP Network Accounting Management
Hou Jian · 2003
Accounting Management is probably the least developed IP network management application. Now it is paid more attention than before. Accounting is relatively a unattached and typical application compare to other IP network management applications. First , the non-technical factors are described. And then, the accounting objects and accounting policy are researched and described formally. The CORBA-based accounting architecture is presented. The architecture has three layers. First layer is the Web interface used as the users' interface. Java Applet is used to pass some active data. HTTP Server and CORBAAcct Server locate in the second layer. The database server is also located in this layer. The CORBAAcct Server defined by some CORBA objects accomplishes the accounting. The third layer is the device Agent on which the raw accounting data are introduced. The client communicates with the CORBAAcct Server by IIOP and the communication between CORBAAcct Server and device Agent is based on network management protocol