Towards Integrated Network Management

Management scripts are being used as the major means to realize the powerful concept of management by delegation. Many script delegation frameworks are proposed and experimented with for various network management standards, notably, the SNMP, OSI, and CORBA. More proposals and research are underway. The major problem with these scripting frameworks is that most of these frameworks are, in a sense, \quick xes" aiming at rapidly introducing remote scripting capability to existing management frameworks; therefore, true integration between the two are not achieved. We argue that an integrated scripting framework can provide more power and ease of use to the network managers and applications. In this paper, we explore various ways to integrate the scripting and management frameworks. This is based on our decomposition of the management information model, and a de nition of the functional architecture of the general scripting framework. We also present a perspective on di erent levels of integration.