A Method for Remote LAN Management
Alen Bažant, Tihomir Babić, Vedran Šalinović · 2002
Although the network management concept is not new, efficient network management applications have still been developed. In this paper we propose a method for the efficient remote LAN management. In many network management scenarios management application runs on a station that is connected to the managed local network through the public network, e.g. Internet. The problem with the remote network performance monitoring is how to minimize the amount of management data travelling through the Internet. In a classical scenario management station calls management agents in a local network using SNMP protocol and management data are transferred through the Internet all the time. Doing that way the period of data collection must be long enough to lower the amount of management information travelling through the Internet. Therefore we propose the solution in which management application is implemented in the local network being managed. Accordingly, period of management data collection can be decreased and collected data become more significant for the network performance. The management application periodically collects data and generates web pages. A remote management station connects to the local management application via Internet and receives performance graphs depicting network layer throughput and transmission rates per network interfaces.