Semi-Active Replication of SNMP Objects in Agent Groups Applied for Fault Management
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چکیده
It is often useful to examine MIB objects of a faulty agent in order to determine why it is faulty. This paper presents a new framework for semi-active replication of SNMP management objects in local area networks. The framework is based on groups of agents that communicate with each other using reliable multicast. A group of agents provides fault-tolerant object functionality. A SNMP service is proposed that allows replicated MIB objects of a faulty agent of a given group to be accessed through fault-free agents of that group. The presented framework allows the dynamic definition of agent groups, and management objects to be replicated in each group. A practical fault-tolerant tool for local area network fault management was implemented and is presented. The system employs SNMP agents that interact with a group communication tool. As an example, we show how the examination of TCPrelated objects of faulty agents have been used in the fault diagnosis process. The impact of replication on network performance is evaluated.
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