A CORBA-based Management Framework for Distributed Multimedia Services and Applications

This paper proposes a CORBA-based management framework for managing distributed multimedia services and applications. We have developed a set of management services needed to monitor and control distributed multimedia applications and their supporting services. These management services have been deened using CORBA IDL and can used for quick and easy development of management applications. A generic distributed multimedia service (DMS) MIB has been deened for the management of various multimedia services and applications. The DMS MIB can be easily extended to develop MIBs for speciic multimedia services and applications. As a proof of concept, we have developed a Web-based management system for a CORBA-based distributed multimedia system, MAESTRO. The prototype management system uses OrbixWeb to interface with the management server which is implemented as a CORBA object and monitors distributed multimedia services which are also implemented as CORBA objects.