A HORB-based network management system

The advent of Web technology motivates us to explore new software architecture on heterogeneous computer networks. Network management has been getting increasingly complex and challenging because of the unprecedented growth and heterogeneous nature of today’s computer and telecommunication networks. Currently, the integration of the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) and CORBA/ORB is being pursued. A next step would be an addition of Web technology to the integration. In this paper, we propose a new network management architecture and its implementation based on Java, HORB(a Java-based ORB system), and Web technologies. A network management system with this architecture provides a portable, multi-threaded, object-oriented, distributed, and architecture-neutral environment and can be easily customized by changing the functionalities of agents without stopping the whole system by using a new technique, MIBlet.