Automatic Policy Mapping to Management System Configurations

Policies enable management systems to adapt to changes in management strategies. At run time, management agents use information from the policies to monitor attributes of managed objects, to determine if specific events have occurred and to take management actions. In order to do this, information from the policies must first be extracted. The extracted information is then used to configure management agents, as well as other elements of an underlying management system, in order to enforce the given policies. We refer to this as policy mapping. The challenge in automating policy mapping is, given a set of policies, how to extract the relevant information and then identify, configure and instantiate the required management agents within the scope and constraints of an existing management system. This paper presents an approach for automatic policy mapping assuming an underlying commercial management system.

[1]  Raouf Boutaba,et al.  Policies in SNMPv3-based management , 1999, Integrated Network Management VI. Distributed Management for the Networked Millennium. Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management. (Cat. No.99EX302).

[2]  M. Mansouri-Samani,et al.  Monitoring distributed systems , 1993, IEEE Network.

[3]  Rolf Stadler,et al.  Controlling performance trade-offs in adaptive network monitoring , 2009, 2009 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management.

[4]  Markus Leitner,et al.  Self-forming Network Management Topologies in the Madeira Management System , 2007, AIMS.

[5]  Alberto Gonzalez Prieto,et al.  SLS to DiffServ configuration mappings , 2001, DSOM.

[6]  Masum Z. Hasan,et al.  The Management of Data, Events, and Information Presentation for Network Management , 1996 .

[7]  Konrad Slind,et al.  Monitoring distributed systems , 1987, TOCS.

[8]  Michael Anthony Bauer,et al.  A framework for determining efficient management configurations , 2004, Comput. Networks.

[9]  Michael Anthony Bauer,et al.  Mapping Policies to Management Systems , 2009, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks.

[10]  Jürgen Quittek,et al.  MPLS management using policies , 2001, 2001 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management Proceedings. Integrated Network Management VII. Integrated Management Strategies for the New Millennium (Cat. No.01EX470).

[11]  Michael Anthony Bauer,et al.  Towards Automating the Adaptation of Management Systems to Changes in Policies , 2006, 2006 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium NOMS 2006.

[12]  Vitalian A. Danciu,et al.  From processes to policies - concepts for large scale policy generation , 2004, 2004 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37507).

[13]  David S. Rosenblum,et al.  Design and evaluation of a wide-area event notification service , 2001, TOCS.

[14]  Michael Anthony Bauer,et al.  Towards Self-Configuring Policy-Based Management Systems , 2008, 2008 IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks.

[15]  Emil C. Lupu,et al.  A policy deployment model for the Ponder language , 2001, 2001 IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Integrated Network Management Proceedings. Integrated Network Management VII. Integrated Management Strategies for the New Millennium (Cat. No.01EX470).

[16]  James Won-Ki Hong,et al.  The abstraction and modelling of management agents , 1995, Integrated Network Management.

[17]  John C. Strassner,et al.  Policy-based network management - solutions for the next generation , 2003, The Morgan Kaufmann series in networking.