Problems with Internet Management
SNMP is not particularly well suited to the management of large networks and not at all well suited to configuring
CMIP is too heavy and complex for the Internet
Configuring is typically done using vendor-specific tools that still often are TELNET based
WWW and Java based network management is gaining popularity
- WWW functions as the user interface for both configuring and monitoring networks
- Java 1.1 (or later) makes it possible to use servlets
- the network management workstation sends servlets (agents) to the managed devices
- the servlets communicate directly with the management workstation (e.g. using Remote Method Invocation, RMI)
The same architecture is suited for service management