Design of network management support system based on active information resource

Generally, in order to manage and maintain a network system, it is necessary to carry out a series of operations including assessing the network status, determining the network errors, selecting/approving the countermeasures and applying the countermeasures. Since network systems are becoming more complicated and larger in scale, network operations increasingly require special professional knowledge and effort, thereby imposing heavy workloads on network administrators. In this paper, we propose and design the AIR-NMS (Active Information Resource Architecture based Network Management Support System) for decreasing network administrator workloads.