APPLICATION OF ODP AND TYPE MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS TO NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Future network management systems will operate in large, wide-area net works created from heterogeneous and autonomous networks. Such an open environment will increase the complexity of network management to the extent that it has common requirements with any wide-area distributed application. To handle such complexity, network management can be mod elled using an RM-ODP approach. The paper presents an ODP-based type m anagement which was formulated to support interoperability of distribu ted applications and shows how network management can benefit from it. Also type templates of managed objects defined by GDMO have been rela ted to the ODP-based type description.