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Meeting the challenge of a peer-to-peer network: An SNA management services infrastructure for APPN

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Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is no longer a strictly hierarchical networking environment. The introduction of advanced peer-to-peer networking (APPN) provides for more flexibility: end user systems attaching to an SNA network are no longer controlled by a mainframe host. This new flexibility creates challenges for SNA/Management Services (SNA/MS), however, since the previous hierarchical relationship provided a vehicle for network management as well as network control. The SNA/MS architecture has been extended to meet the needs of this peer-to-peer environment, providing a management infrastructure which replaces the previous SSCP to PU relationship, and at the same time provides for much greater flexibility. This new infrastructure provides a mechanism for negotiating manager and agent (referred to as focal point and entry point in SNA/MS) roles between systems, and a transport technique for management services data which exploits advanced program-to-program communication (APPC).

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  1. Networking Systems Architecture, IBM Corporation, C40/673, P.O. Box 12195, 27709, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

    Michael O. Allen & Marcia L. Peters

  2. NetView Systems Test, IBM Corporation, USA

    Sandra L. Benedict

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Allen, M.O., Benedict, S.L. & Peters, M.L. Meeting the challenge of a peer-to-peer network: An SNA management services infrastructure for APPN. J Netw Syst Manage 1, 189–212 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01035887

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