TMN-based integrated network management using Web and CORBA

This paper proposes a TMN-based integrated network management system architecture using WWW and CORBA technologies. WWW technology enables human users to be free from complicated system interfaces and CORBA technology enables developers to create and add distributed management components easily. Our work focuses on developing a TMN-based manager system using CORBA and the Web, and attempts to achieve integration of SNMP/CMIP-based managed systems through gateways. Our management system architecture provides generalized TMN management interfaces on the protocol-oriented gateway systems. Using the generalized interfaces, the TMN management functionality can be easily added to provide complicated TMN management services to users via WWW browsers.