A new mechanism for distributed managers persistence
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SNMP is currently a worldwide used network management framework. However, it only
describes the structure of management information and how to access it, i.e., low-level
operations, presenting no considerations about information interpretation or other highlevel
tasks.
Recent work in this area has managed to define several modules suitable for management
distribution (DISMAN), which implies building agents that can cope with rather complex
information structures. In the case of information loss, for example due to an agent reset,
it is not practicable to force the management station to define and configure the
information once again.
In this paper we present an XML based data model that can provide a structure for
distributed managers persistency. Moreover, it can be used to define macros to group
together elementary SNMP operations and to describe what should a mobile agent do
when meeting some SNMP agent.
