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Partial Extension Package for the Flexible Customization of a Network Management Information Model

Tetsuo OTANI, Yoshikazu YAMAMOTO

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A knowledge gap between network operators and system developers in Network Management System (NMS) construction has widened. This has been caused by an expansion of supported business processes and increasingly sophisticated network management functions. This gap makes system development costly and time consuming. Function development, led by operators, is a promising solution to the problems caused by the gap. This type of development should not require an operator to know how to develop NMS. Standard objects may be used to meet this requirement and save time and the cost of NMS construction. However, they are not sufficient to design functions supporting some tasks that are for providing custom services. In this paper, we propose a partial extension package, composed of several object classes. This package is attached to the standard objects to design a custom function. Information processing in a new function can be added, and easily modified, using this package. This package specifies states that invoke the information processing. It also includes objects that add new data without changing standard objects. It makes use of several design patterns in order to weaken coupling to the standard objects. We have applied this package to two programs. One plans maintenance tasks schedules, the other sets threshold values for quality of service. We made use of software metrics to measure their performance in terms of flexibility. The results show that the proposed package continues to make it possible to reuse the standard objects, and makes it easy to modify the behavior of a new function.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E84-B No.7 pp.1897-1906
Publication Date
2001/07/01
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Category
Network Management/Operation

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