The computational object approach for network and systems management

Abstract In the past 20 years, Network and Systems Management (N&SM) has thrived on mostly centralized or weakly distributed paradigms. Advances in technologies and software engineering suggested new ways of doing N&SM. The computational object approach is one of the main management technologies that have recently appeared. Based on this approach, the architecture proposed in this paper uses programming concepts instead of protocol concepts and conceals protocol complexity by easily manipulated components. Concerning the information model, the Common Information Model (CIM) is used which is designed in an object-oriented manner that is the key behind scalable N&SM.The implementation is done in the Windows environment and using the C++ programming language.