Agent-based Smart Data Provisioning Mechanism for Supporting Network and System Administration Tasks

Processing network data is a useful tool for network and system administration tasks. However, small-scale networks do not prepare the dedicated systems and interfaces to display network status because there are various users and systems. To solve the problem, we propose a method to deliver the network data by using software agent with meta-level knowledge of the data processing tools to select the tools and places appropriately and to organize autonomously. In this paper, the components of data processing are designed and implemented as the software agents, and we evaluate the performance and effectiveness of a prototypical system.