Collaborative and Integrated Network and Systems Management: Management Using Grid Technologies

Abstract: Current Internet trends are moving towards decentralization of computation, storage, and resources. Supporting network management for such a vast and a highly complex system has become a challenging issue. A management platform has to sufficiently support decentralization, collaboration, and integration. Grid technologies have the potential to serve as management architecture due to the support of the above features. In this paper, we developed a collaborative network management architecture leveraging the key features of grid technology. Benefiting from this integration, we were able to show that multiple management tasks can be integrated and completed in parallel. This assures the management scalability and efficiency. We also showed that the management information at different networking domains can freely consume the computational resources provided through the grid interface while being executed. Grid interface has guaranteed scalability and reliability for the network management tasks. We have simulated the system prototype and closely studied its efficiency