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Adaptive Network Monitoring Strategy for SNMP-Based Network Management  

Cheon, Jin-young (Computer Architecture Networks Lab, Dept.of Electronics Engineering, Inha University)
Cheong, Jin-ha (Computer Architecture Networks Lab, Dept.of Electronics Engineering, Inha University)
Yoon, Wan-oh (Computer Architecture Networks Lab, Dept.of Electronics Engineering, Inha University)
Park, Sang-bang (Computer Architecture Networks Lab, Dept.of Electronics Engineering, Inha University)
Abstract
In the network management system, there are two approaches; the centralized approach based on SNMP and the distributed approach based on mobile agent. Some information changes with time and the manager needs to monitor its value in real time. In such a case, the polling is generally used in SNMP because the manager can query agents periodically. However, the polling scheme needs both request and response messages for management information every time, which results in network traffic increase. In this paper, we suggest an adaptive network monitoring method to reduce the network traffic for SNMP-based network management. In the proposed strategy, each agent first decides its on monitoring period. Then, the manager collects them and approves each agent's period without modification or adjusts it based on the total traffic generated by monitoring messages. After receiving response message containing monitoring period from the manager, each agent sends management information periodically without the request of manager. To evaluate performance of the proposed method, we implemented it and compared the network traffic and monitoring quality of the proposed scheme with the general polling method.
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