1 WebManager: Transforming a Network Management Application Into a Component-Based Framework Sauvé, Coutinho, Almeida, Souza, Duarte 2001

2 Agenda The Problem The Solution The Results The Future

3 The Problem: No Management Companies doing Management Companies not doing Management

4 The Problem: Reasons Tools are expensive Tools are hard to use Tools are normally both

5 The Solution: Tools! What? More tools? We aim to produce a tool: –Free –Very easy-to-use tool –That does 80% of management tasks for small to medium networks

6 Goals and Requirements Have what the old tool had: –Web interface, SNMP, maps, color coded alarms, performance graphs, alarm logging and notification Ease of use Scalability Extensibility Portability Very low Total Cost of Ownership

7 Immediate Goals Everything but ease-of-use –That will have to come later...

8 Architecture Component-based framework –For extensibility –To allow “Visual Building” of management applications through plug-in components

9 N-tier Architecture

10 The NMS: Problem Domain

11 The Network Management Framework

12 Results

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18 Current State & Future Initiating production use – Not easy to use yet but –Working hard on automatic configuration Very flexible architecture About a year away from public release

19 Thank You