To Manage Grid Using Dynamically Constructed Network Management Concept: An Early Thought

The management of grid is differing from that of individual system and current Internet. A novel model on network management--Dynamically Constructed Network Management (DCNM) is proposed. Maybe it could give a good suggestion to management on grid. The network services and applications are treated as “soft equipment” managed by the NMS thus all the resources in the network can be managed under this model. As the function of managed objects, i.e., network services and applications etc., management functions will be dynamically constructed along with the development and deployment of variety of services and applications in the network. This makes management itself an adaptive component of the network. We also introduced our opinion on the research directions of grid management using DCNM concept at the end of this article.