Toward Proactive Application-centric Management

Management of large-scale networks and their applications is an extremely complex task due to factors such as centralized built-in management architectures, lack of coordination and compatibility among heterogeneous network management systems, and dynamic characteristics of networks and applications. We do need to develop an integrated application and network management paradigm that is proactive, scalable, and robust. In this paper, we present a framework for Proactive Application-centric Management System (PAMS) and its implementation approach using management delegation with intelligence. We discuss preliminary results of PAMS prototype to proactively manage the network and the performance of real-time distributed applications.