Multiagent Architecture of Knowledge Based Network Management Support System

To reduce the loads of network administrators and to ensure the tasks, we have proposed AIR-NMS, which is a network management support system (NMS) based on Active Information Resource (AIR). In AIR-NMS, various information resources (e.g., state information of a network, practical knowledge of network management) are combined with software agents which have the knowledge and functions for supporting the utilization of the resources, and thus individual resources are given activities as Airs. Through the organization and cooperation of Airs, AIR-NMS provides the administrators with practical measures against a wide range of network faults. In this paper, we present the way to install network management knowledge as Airs and its multi-agent architecture of AIR utilization, which is AIR-NMS.