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1997
Conference Paper
Titel
Java-based mobile intelligent agents as network management solutions
Abstract
Traditional mechanisms for ""moving"" network management solutions from producers to consumers require sophisticated human intelligence and expertise, high costs in installation and maintenance, or impose high traffic load/availability requirement on the global networks. To address these problems, this paper proposes a new framework for developing, marketing and deploying management solutions using Java-based Mobile Intelligent Agents. The management solutions are regarded as knowledge, defined as Java objects and structured into a hierarchy by the hierarchical specialization relationship among the problem situations which the solutions are addressing. With this hierarchical organization of solutions, we can obtain the Object-Oriented style of reusability/interoperability, and accumulative construction/standardization, of management functionalities in the distributed open environment. To manage the real resources, Java-based Mobile Intelligent Agents (IA) carrying a hierarchy of management solutions are envisaged, which travel among the managed network sites to solve the problems in the environment, by finding out and applying locally the most suitable management solution. The knowledge of an IA can be further extended by the local, specific management solutions of the network sites it visits, in order to support the optimal management of the local resources.