Platform independent event correlation tool for network management

Event correlation plays an important role in today's network management, reducing large amounts of network events to smaller and more meaningful sets of alarms. Most of the commercially available event correlation tools have a design that is over-complicated for majority of small and medium range applications, all of them are platform dependent, and last but not least, they are expensive for academic use. This paper presents a lightweight open source network management tool called sec designed to implement platform independent event correlation.