Distributed intelligent monitoring and reporting facilities

Abstract

Distributed intelligent monitoring and reporting facilities are of paramount importance in both service and network management as they provide the capability to monitor quality of service and utilisation parameters and notify degradation so that corrective action can be taken. By intelligent, we refer to the capability of performing the monitoring tasks in a way that has the smallest possible impact on the managed network, facilitates the observation and summarisation of information according to a number of criteria and in its most advanced form, permits the specification of these criteria dynamically to suit the particular policy in hand. In addition, intelligent monitoring facilities should minimise the design and implementation effort involved in such activities. The ISO/ITU Metric, Summarisation and Performance management functions provide models that only partially satisfy the above requirements. This paper describes our extensions to the proposed models to support further capabilities, with the intention to eventually lead to fully dynamically defined monitoring policies. The concept of distributing intelligence is also discussed, including the consideration of security issues and the applicability of the model in ODP-based distributed processing environments.

A process for identifying predictive correlation patterns in service management systems

“…[3]: This is done by using intelligent agents to retrieve complex information about the status and the workload, thereby enabling service providers to ensure the continual uptime of a service object. Because of this, the service management often uses a distributed software architecture [10] where software agents are used to read the service data and correlate the information to provide a service operator with meaningful information.…”

Software Agent Constrained Mobility for Network Performance Monitoring

“…for providing more sophisticated features that were not thought out in advance, needs to go through the full research, standardization and deployment cycle. For example, [14] identified additional functionality that combines the capabilities of metric monitoring and summarization objects in a powerful fashion but such additions need to go through a new standardization cycle. The specification of the OSI-SM systems management functions took a long time and is partly responsible for the perceived complexity and lateness in the deployment of OSI-SM-based network elements.…”

Active Virtual Private Network Services on Demand

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