Applications of SNMP in Ubiquitous Environment

Ubiquitous computing is fast becoming a reality. Several ubiquitous devices compliant with the service discoveries like UPnP and JINI are available now. Individually, managing the ubiquitous devices with UPnP is not a problem. But, it is quite cumbersome to manage these devices in the large scale environment especially when the management issues like performance, fault and security management have to be considered. SNMP is a standard for network management and widely deployed. A majority of SNMP compliant devices are already present. We propose that by integrating SNMP with service discovery protocols like UPnP, we could leverage the use of management factors in the business, organizations, and other multi-user ubiquitous environments, while providing a uniform interface to an administrator for the management of UPnP and SNMP based devices.