A New Network Management System with Ontology-Supported Multi-agent Techniques

This paper presents a new network management system with ontology-supported multi-agent techniques. This technique derived from the ontology combining with related free software - Ethereal and Cacti which stored the operating information of network management perfectly into the backend database; furthermore, from the view of the fundamental functions of information agents, the system could sketch the four main components of network management systems with the technique of graphic monitoring multi-agent, which the system architecture consisted of an interface agent, a proxy agent, a monitoring agent, and a search agent. The experimental outcomes of the system prototype proved that the techniques implemented in this paper could not only precisely recognize error alarms but also indeed reduce the recovery time to 61% of traditional processing time for network troubleshooting.