Remote management of Narwhal Client Agents using The Enterprise Management Protocol

The Enterprise Management Protocol (TEMP) and its affiliated infrastructure provide a highly scalable, transport protocol-independent base for enabling the management of networked devices, systems and, most importantly, applications. The functionality and benefits of TEMP are illustrated through a case study of the remote management of Narwhal Client Agents. Narwhal is a technology that provides a local (i.e., client-resident) intermediary broker that can intelligently route the traffic among intermediaries. Its benefits include: (1) improved availability of intermediary services; (2) load sharing requests across several intermediaries; (3) bypassing intermediaries whenever possible; and (4) remote administrative control enabling the implementation of domain-specific policies to utilize the shared limited networking resources.