An Architecture of Extended Network Management System: Autonomous Cooperation between Knowledge Resource and Network Equipments

To reduce the work load of network administrators, e.g., fault detection/recovery, performance analysis and security maintenance etc., knowledge-based intelligent support system for network administrator based on active information resource (AIR-NMS) have been proposed. In this paper, we describe some design pattern and some implemented examples of activated information resource (AIR) on network administration. A design pattern consists of the classification policy of information resources such as state of network equipments and representation of information utilization knowledge such as expertise and heuristics of administrators. Based on these AIRs, we present a prototype architecture of cooperation among AIRs and integration of functions. The architecture realize the flexible/scalable fault recovery support processing in form of parallel distributed procedure.