Byeong Ki Lee, Kuk Hyun Cho

The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 2700-2712, Aug. 2000
10.3745/KIPSTE.2000.7.8.2700,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Traditional network management architecture have been based on static and centralized client/server technologies. In this paradigm, every element of the network sends all the data to a central management station that processes the whole data and provides the interface to the user operator. By this reason, centralized management architecture has been stretched to its limits by the number and complexity of managed nodes. The passive network management solution does not scale and is not cost effective due to traffic increase. Therefore it is essential that network management employ techniques with more rapid access and scalability. Active Networks is a framework within which users inject programs contained in messages into a network capable of performing computations and manipulations on behalf of the user. In this paper we apply the active networks technology to network management and monitoring without placing undue burden on the nodes in the network. Further, we present a architecture and a prototype implementation of the Active Network platform and describe the framework that we used to provide for integration between Active Network and SNMP-based management applications.

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