Designing the Architecture of P2P-Based Network Management Systems

Abstract

P2P-based network management has been recently proposed. However, the entities involved in this new management model have not been detailed up to today. In this paper we introduce the internal architecture of management peers. According to the set of elements internally employed, a management peer may act in the role of a top level or mid level manager, or in the role of a hybrid entity with mixed duties. The presented architecture can then be used as basis for the development of P2P-based management systems, such as the system prototype we also present in the paper.

On the investigation of the joint use of self-* properties and Peer-To-Peer for network management

“…In addition, there are two concepts that are important for the design of the self-healing P2P-based approach: instances of management services and management peer group. In fact, management services and these two concepts were defined by Panisson et al (PANISSON et al, 2006) and they are revised in favor of the self-healing P2P-based approach as described below.…”

“…In this sense, the management group concept acts as a shield for the instances of the management service, and just the operations of this service are exposed for the rest of the P2P management overlay. The details of the architecture and load balancing inside the management peer group are described by Panisson et al (PANISSON et al, 2006). Considering the environment presented in Figure 4.1, the instances of the management service (represented by the triangle) form, automatically, a management peer group inside the P2P management overlay.…”

“…Before describing the implementation of such approach, it is necessary to introduce the main characteristics of the P2P management overlay employed to provide the underlaying infrastructure. The monitoring system of a NAC installation is deployed on the ManP2P platform (PANISSON et al, 2006). The details of such platform and the deployment of the NAC monitoring system are discussed as follows.…”

“…The management overlay ManP2P is a previous work, and its architecture has been described by Panisson et al (PANISSON et al, 2006). Due to the fact that the ManP2P architecture is based on management services and peer group interactions, it is used, here, to provide the underlying infrastructure required for the development of the self-healing P2P-based approach.…”

Maintenance of Monitoring Systems Throughout Self-healing Mechanisms

“…The overlay proposed in previous work is called ManP2P and its architecture has been described in the work of Panisson et al [13]. In this current paper, we extend the ManP2P functionalities in order to explicitly support self-healing processes.…”