MANDATE - MANAGING NETWORKS USING DATABASE TECHNOLOGY

In recent years, there has been a growing demand for the development o f tooll to manage enterprise communication networks. A management info rmation database is the heart of a network management system-it provid es the interface between all functions of the network management syste m and, therefore, has to provide sophisticated functionality allied wi th high performance. In this paper, we introduce the design of MANDATE (MAnaging Networks using DAtabase TEchnology), a proposed database sy stem for effectively supporting the management of large enterprise net works. The MANDATE design makes a conscious attempt to take advantage of the special characteristics of network data and transactions, and o f recent advances in database technology, to efficiently derive some o f the required management functionality.