Management processes have to react on time to the
new challenges put by a crescent movement of the computing
world to the Internet paradigm. The enormous base of legacy
knowledge and legacy systems leads the SNMP management
framework to a necessary choice in nowadays management
scenarios. However, even with the recent SNMPv3, its services
correspond roughly to low-level operations for setting or
retrieving network equipment parameters. The IETF
Distributed Management working group have been producing
normalization documents that intent to apply to the
enrichment of SNMP semantics, especially in what concerns
the processing of management information.
This paper will present the recent outcome of this WG and
will discuss an implementation project that aims to apply
mobile agent technology in these scenarios
