A network management architecture for 6LoWPAN network

We propose a 6LoWPAN-SNMP that enables transmission of SNMP messages over IPv6-enabled low-power wireless personal area networks (6LoWPAN). The 6LoWPAN-SNMP is an extended modification of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Compared to traditional IP-networks, 6LoWPAN is a severely resource-constrained network; hence, existing SNMP protocols need to be modified to meet the goals in RFC 4919, ldquo6LoWPAN Problems and Goalsrdquo. The proposed 6LoWPAN-SNMP provides for native communication of SNMP messages on LoWPAN networks. The proposed mechanism is resource-efficient and fully compatible with the standard SNMP. It utilizes SNMP header compression and provides extended protocol operations to reduce the number of SNMP messages generated among the SNMP entities. Compatibility with the standard SNMP is achieved by a proxy forwarder on the 6LoWPAN gateway. The proposed mechanism is implemented on actual hardware platforms using the open-source Net-SNMP library and the Berkeley 6LoWPAN on the TinyOS 2.1. The feasibility and effectiveness of 6LoWPAN-SNMP is evaluated. The experimental results show that 6LoWPAN can be effectively supported with network management functionality based on SNMP.

In this paper, we present the network management model for a multimedia service in the broadband wireless access network (BWA), also known as the local multipoint distribution service. The BWA typically provides band ranges between 10-66 GHz, and is further characterized by high rates and short ranges due to rain and foliage attenuation. The proposed model consists of a base station manager (BS) a SNMP (simple network management protocol) agent, and a user-friendly graphic user interface (GUI). The manager-to-SNMP agent communicates using a mechanism based on the extensible SNMP trap feature. SNMP agents, which are used to manage elements of the BWA network, communicate with the BS manager using SNMP PDU. BS manager provides configuration management function and fault management function.

규모가 커지고 라우터, 스위치, 서버 등과 같은 구성 요소가 다양해지고 있는 네트워크를 효율적으로 지원할 수 있는 SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol)가 네트워크 관리의 표준 프로토콜로 가장 널리 사용되고 있다. 하지만, SNMP는 네트워크 과부하, 처리 지연 그리고 테이블 검색의 비효율성과 같은 성능적 문제점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 SNMP의 성능 개선을 위해 SNMP-GetBulk 응답메시지 내의 중복되는 OID 정보를 줄이는 기법과 NMS 캐쉬와 새로운 SNMP-GetUpdate 요청이 결합된 기법의 두 가지 제안을 제시한다. 분석을 통해 첫 번째 제안 기법은 네트워크 과부하를 감소시키고, 두 번째 기법은 SNMP 요청의 처리 지연과 테이블 검색 문제를 개선함을 보였고, 이로 인해 네트워크 관리의 확장성도 개선할 수 있다. SNMP(Simple Network Management Protocol) is most commonly used as a standard protocol for effective network management by supporting the increasing size of the network and the variety of network elements such as router, switch, server and so on. However, SNMP has performance drawbacks of network overhead, processing latency, and the inefficiency in data retrieval. In this paper, we propose two schemes to improve the performance of SNMP; 1) the first scheme to reduce the amount of redundant OID information within a SNMP-GetBulk response message, 2) the second scheme of newly proposed SNMP-GetUpdate message combined with the cache in MNS. Through the analysis with real experiments, we show that our first scheme reduces the network overhead and the second scheme improves the processing latency and the retrieval of SNMP MB tables. And, therefore the scalability of network management can be improved.

Today few organizations have a thorough understanding of what is on their networks at any given time. This study tries to develop Computer and Network Asset Manager (CNAM) that is a network management application which helps large enterprises, and Small medium enterprises (SMEs) service providers, manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. CANM collects information on all hardware components of the network instruments that are on the network. In this project, a real-time network monitoring method is suggested for dynamic information to reduce the complexity and cost based on network management. In the proposed method, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is first used to collect data for start interaction between equipment in the specific data center, to gather these data SNMP would need to request it from Management Information Base (MIB) that served as a database for stored information. Furthermore, to ensure data authenticity in the management station that fetches real-time data periodically from equipment, network engineer would have to manually key-in static information into CNAM when it was first launched. The SNMP would then pick up on this stored static information and automatically began collecting real-time data; this feature will be developed with the help of Model View Controller (MVC) pattern that is a software pattern for implementing user interfaces. It allows users to have interaction with the CNAM as well as input the related data. The object oriented approach shall be used to implement SNMP and MIB which represents system management information. Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is required in order to transfer protocol like SNMP, as well as to enter the actual data manually for further authenticity with the real time data. This study would hopefully encourage companies to try an interactive solution for problem in managing their equipment in the data center.

With the GPON technology getting matured and globally be deployed, the control and management issues of service integration were getting more concerned. The related application service control management issues are specified in TR-156, which is set up by the international standards organization, Broadband Forum. In addition, Broadband Forum also started the relevant amendments for the next generation passive optical network technology standard XG-GPON (ITU-T G.987/G.988 draft). Besides, because most network management operation system still leverages SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) technology, how to gracefully integrate the SNMP network management control technology for the XG-PON or GPON system will become an important issue. In this article, the next generation GPON/XG-PON application service control and management technology will be introduced.

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a standard protocol for management of network devices. It provides excellent features, such as scalability, information management, authentication, encryption, and access control. However, SNMP has a structural weakness to fully support control functions for integrated management of digital convergence devices, and it has a limitation of message length in SNMP communication. In this paper, we present an extended SNMP scheme for integrated management of digital convergence devices with control functions. We modified the SNMP architecture by adding DDS (Device Driver Subsystem) to SNMP engine for controlling different devices and by defining CADM (Control Agent Driver Model), in order to solve the ambiguity problem between 'set' and 'control' of SNMP. And the extended SNMP made it easy for SNMP applications to use various control functions. The extended SNMP can transport massive high-level information, such as messages in XML format by adding three new SNMP commands, which eliminate the limit of message length. Therefore, the extended SNMP is adequate to develop context-aware SNMP applications.

In the traditional network management architecture, there is an implicit assumption that a managed device will not change its location. Location related information where available is static, and it is used for simple reporting purposes. However with mobile devices these attributes are inherently dynamic. Monitoring processes of management information also encounter difficulties of network instability caused by roaming of devices or wireless signal errors. So the current approach of network management needs to be reviewed. MobileIPv6 and NEMO are standardized protocols for realizing mobility-aware network. In this article we propose new network management technologies for MobileIPv6/NEMO network based on the Internet standard network management protocol, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Our focus is the importance of 1) location awareness and 2) intelligent monitoring process. We explained about the MobileIPv6/NEMO-MIB that is aware of mobile device’s dynamically changing location. We also propose the delayed data sending method that realizes effective transfer of management information without congestion over an instable network. From an evaluation in simulations, and experiments in real environment, we confirmed that our approach is effective for improving monitoring processes for mobile devices in management of MobileIPv6/NEMO network. This is one of the first management applications that are completely based on Internet standard protocols of MobileIPv6/NEMO, and SNMP.

The telecommunication application server (AS) is an important part of the value-added service network in the next generation network(NGN) as the support platform. Remote, unified and secure management to a variety of services is implemented after the remote network management of the telecommunications application server. The network management system based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is decided to utilized to analyse and study the network managed objects in AS because of the integration of telecommunications networks and computer networks on the network management and convenient, economical and flexible features of SNMP protocol. The network management agent module of AS is designed and an example is illustrated the details of the model. Results indicate the good performance of the network management agent.

In order to improve the efficiency and stability of Space-Terrestrial integrated network resource management and control, a multi-element multi-domain network management protocol (MMMP) is proposed. Based on MMMP, Space-Terrestrial integrated network management and control system (STi-NMCS) is designed. By abstracting network management objects, the efficiency of network management is greatly improved. Experiments are carried by comparing the overhead and the success rate of network management between MMMP, simple network management protocol(SNMP) and common management information protocol (CMIP). The results show that by using MMMP rather than SNMP as well as CMIP, the Space-Terrestrial integrated network management system archives high success rate and low management overhead.

The authors expand on their experience in a practical network management system by using the simple network management protocol (SNMP) in the context of a large-scale open systems interconnection (OSI)-based campus-network. Various aspects of network management are examined and the importance of time is shown. The network management infrastructure comprises intelligent, time-synchronized agents and expert managers. Agents are deployed to collect information about the network segments to which they are attached. The expert manager talks to the agents and gathers relevant network information which is used in conjunction with a network knowledge base, to reconstruct the overall network traffic characteristic, to evaluate the status of the network and to take/suggest some action. The model allows some global control, monitoring and management without installing agents on all elements connected to the network. The use of time labels and narrow time windows enables the manager to obtain a reasonably accurate picture of the network status. The introduction of composite time-labeled objects reduces the burden of management traffic on the network. >

There have been several attempts in the past to secure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Version 3 of the SNMP protocol introduced a User-based Security Model (USM) which comes with its own user and key-management infrastructure. However, many operators are reluctant to introduce a new user and key management infrastructure just to secure SNMP. This paper describes how the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol can be used to secure SNMP and it provides a performance analysis of a prototype implementation which compares the performance of SNMP over SSH with other secure and insecure versions of SNMP.

HINOC (High performance Network Over Coax) is an access network technology aimed at solving the bandwidth limit in user area. With the development of HINOC technology, it is significant to build an effective and efficient management system for HINOC network. After introduction to the basic principles of HINOC, this paper demonstrates a HINOC management system based on SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), of which we implemented SNMP agent. Through comparison with the proxy agent scheme in several aspects, we find that the embedded agent scheme is more suitable for HINOC. To meet the detailed management requirements for HINOC, a set of HINOC-MGMT-MIB is defined and implemented in HB/HM software system, which enables monitoring of base information and network status, access control, QoS management, software automated upgrade, etc. The lab trial results manifest the agent functions properly on HINOC device.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is widely deployed to monitor, control and (sometimes also) configure network elements. Even though the SNMP technology is well documented, it remains relatively unclear how SNMP is used in practice and what typical SNMP usage patterns are. This document proposes to carry out large scale SNMP traffic measurements in order to develop a better understanding how SNMP is used in real world production networks. It describes the motivation, the measurement approach, and the tools and data formats needed to carry out such a study. This document was produced within the IRTF's Network Management Research Group (NMRG) and represents the consensus of all of the active contributors to this group.

The Remote network-MONitoring (RMON) standard is a valuable addition to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), providing network managers with important global network information. Unlike SNMP agents, RMON agents operate in promiscuous mode and process all packets traversing the local net. The RMON management information base (MIB) supplements the SNMP MIB-II standard MIB. We present common network problems that cannot be solved using existing MIB-II or RMON objects. To solve these problems, we develop extensions to the RMON matrix group to gather network layer statistics that result in a view of packet traffic beyond the local network. Our extensions increase the ability to analyze and solve network configuration problems and perform troubleshooting. We demonstrate our results by implementing and analyzing two “live” internetworking problems. Data collected from these experiments showed that network traffic patterns can be isolated by individual subnets, thus more easily identifying sources of congestion.

– Installation of the honepot sensor on Raspberry Pi device integrated with Modern Honey Network(MHN) is a DSSDI UGM action to see the threats of existing public Network, so it can be preventive action. But theinstalled Honeypot sensors sometimes have problems in the form of overload on the System so that data attacks arenot recorded. It is necessary to develop a monitoring System on the Honeypot System to monitor and manage Systemresources and to analyze Honeypot data needs. System monitoring which is one of the Network Management System(NMS) functions can be implemented with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to monitor theperformance of Honeypot sensor devices. From monitoring the Honeypot System shows the Honeypot sensor deviceoverloaded in memory. In addition, from the monitoring is seen the influence of the number of attacks on Systemperformance.
 Keywords - Honeypot, Modern Honey Network (MHN), Network Management System (NMS), Simple NetworkManagement Protocol (SNMP)