Platform independent event correlation tool for network management

Event correlation plays an important role in today´s network management, reducing large amounts of network events to smaller and more meaningful sets of alarms. Most of the commercially available event correlation tools have a design that is over-complicated for majority of small and medium range applications, all of them are platform dependent, and last but not least, they are expensive for academic use. This paper presents a lightweight open source network management tool called sec designed to implement platform independent event correlation.