Network Management Environment

While the user might view the client machine & its application as the technique, the server is the critical part. It manages the network, provides access to knowledge residing on its storage devices, generates knowledge requests for knowledge residing on other nodes & transmits those requests to their appropriate nodes. The client machine makes a request & the server does all the coordination necessary to fulfill that request.

Standards-setting organizations & vendors are developing frameworks to manage the interconnected knowledge technologies. Currently, these products are primarily in the specifications stage, although parts may currently be available.

The Open Application Foundation is focusing on building distributed computing & management application & developing a used role as manager of middleware technologies developed by outside companies. Middleware sits between the operating technique & the applications. Of its open application know-how is Distributed Management Surroundings.

Open application foundation's distributed management surroundings provides a framework for a vendor-neutral, object-oriented & cost-effective surroundings that can be used by hardware & application vendors to generate products. The distributed management surroundings provides the following characteristic as,

+ An object-oriented application interface for administration & management of multi-vendor objects, such as network devices, systems, applications, files & databases.

+ A standard application programming interface to manage a variety of networked systems by either open source interconnection's common management knowledge protocol or simple network management protocol.

+ A common Graphical User Interface across different network management applications & services.

These management surroundings are designed to cover network management as well as systems management. By integrating systems & networks, web standards can handle the management of their interconnect knowledge technologies as a single technique, not multiple processes. Applications written to distributed management surroundings specifications will run on any management environment-compliant network management systems.

 A few the distributed management surroundings pieces are available from contributing vendors. The integration of the pieces in to the distributed management surroundings platform is not slated until at least the second quarter. Distributed management-complaint application won't be available until 1994. As parts of the distributed management specification are complete, open application foundation is releasing snapshot versions to its members.

Object management group's object management architecture combines distributed processing with object-oriented computing. It provides a standard technique for generating, preserving, locating & communicating objects, which can be anything from whole applications to pieces of applications such as graphical screens or complex number-crunching algorithms. Using this mechanism, cooperative-processing applications can be supported within a heterogeneous, distributed & network surroundings.