Aplicação de técnicas de inteligência artificial no desenvolvimento de agentes para gerência de redes

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica

1 Abstract Design of the DECmcc Management Director

The DECmcc product family represents a significant achievement in the development of enterprise management capabilities. DECmcc embodies the director portion of Digital's Enterprise Management Architecture (EMA) and is both a platform for the development of new management capabilities and a vehicle for aiding customers to manage their computing and communications environments. Initially, the DECmcc director was intended to facilitate sophisticated management of evolving networks. In addition to network management, DECmcc has been adapted to the needs of system, applications, data, environment, and telecommunications management. The first implementations contained the DECmcc kernel, a developer's toolkit, and various management modules. Development of the DECmcc director has been a multiyear effort involving many groups within Digital. When the DECmcc design was initiated in 1987, there was no equivalent management software in the industry. Most companies, Digital included, provided one or more independent, focuse