Context Driven Access Control to SNMP MIB Objects in Multi-homed Environments

The advent of multi-technology networks offering the service continuum over multiple network infrastructures implies new challenges to integrated management. One of these challenges is the auto-configuration of the management plane needed to allow dynamic relationships among several managers and one management agent. This paper proposes the use of provisional policies in order to dynamically auto-configure the access control part of a management agent. This allows simple management based on agent location and time as well as the cooperative behavior of several managers.

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