Integrated network management: technologies and implementation experience

An analysis of the requirements and key enabling technologies for the development of intelligent and integrated enterprise network management systems is presented. In particular, the analysis demonstrates the advantages of exploiting the synergy of object-oriented and knowledge-based technologies, together with the emerging network management standard protocols between conformant management entities. The experience with applying these concepts to the evolution of the management system for large multivendor data communication networks is outlined.<<ETX>>