Battlefield Applications of Hierarchical Management with Shaman

E ective management of battle eld networks requires a hierarchical network management architecture wherein managers can dynamically delegate management tasks to intermediate managers. In this paper we describe a novel framework called SHAMAN Spreadsheet-based Hierarchical Architecture for MANagement which extends the traditional at SNMP management model to a hierarchical architecture. We describe in detail the scripting language and event model used by SHAMAN, and illustrate its use by an example of location management in a tactical battle eld scenario. A demo of our implementation of SHAMAN and the location management application will be shown during the ATIRP Annual Conference.