XML-Based Network Management

Publisher Summary This chapter examines how XML technologies can be applied to network management tasks: modeling management information, instrumenting managed resources, management operations, communication between manager and agent, analyzing the data, and presenting the analysis result to users. An architectural framework for the development of XML-based network management systems have been presented. This framework can be used as a guideline for developing management systems. XML enables data to carry its metainformation in the form of an XML document. The metainformation is used for searching, filtering, and processing efficiently. The main benefits of XML are simplicity, extensibility, and openness. The simplicity of XML relies on tree structured text-based encoding of data, so one can easily create, read, and modify XML documents with even the most primitive text processing tools. XNM is a collection of network management methods that applies XML technologies to network management. Therefore, XNM employs the advantages of XML technologies and one can easily develop network management system using XML technologies. XML technology is viewed by many as a revolutionary approach for solving the problems that exist in current standards and practices for network and systems management. More work is needed to prove this by developing not only standards but also applying to manage real networks and systems.

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