On the Impact of Using Presence Services in P2P-Based Network Management Systems

The use of notifications to inform the status of network devices and software to network administrators has a crucial function to guarantee the correct network operations and to prevent unnecessary costs. Presence services have been designed with the objective to provide ways to deliver presence information to interested parties, however they are used only in communications systems. In this paper we thus present a proposal that aims to using presence services in P2P-based network management systems.