Distribution of Network Management Policies with Emphasis on Quality of Service

This article has as objective to propose the extension of the use of the management based on network policies. To do so, it has been created an approach to the distribution of management policies with emphasis on the quality of service. This approach communicates the managed device to the point of decision, requiring corrective actions for the devices, reporting changes in the configuration, registering the managed resources and applying the policies defined for the network management. In this context, the message is defined in XML format, having HTTP as its policies distributor among the participants of the distributed system. As a contribution, this article has allowed more flexibility in the distribution of policies for the devices and the sharing of a logical group of policies to the management of resources and applications emphasized in quality of service. LANOMS 2005 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium 213