Algorithms and Contracts for Network and Systems Management

Most current management applications provide a rather low-level view of the managed systems, have limited operations automation, usually forcing the manager to work at MIB variable level. To solve these problems, an approach based on a hierarchy of management algorithms for the different abstraction layers is used in this paper to manage a company’s business processes. An example is described to illustrate how the top-level management requirements are refined down to the equipment level, formalized in contracts enforced by the algorithms and monitored by management QoS parameters offered by the algorithms.