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In this paper, we criticise the manager — agent model as it is used in current systems, and propose a powerful solution towards flexible management by introducing Active Managed Objects (AMOs) which are remotely programmable entities that carry out management tasks locally; these tasks are defined using a scripting language. We examine the notion of an AMO system, describe its architecture and present some early results. We finally attempt to place the concept within the TMN[1] infrastructure.
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Vassila, A., Knight, G.J. (1995). Introducing Active Managed Objects for effective and autonomous distributed management. In: Clarke, A., Campolargo, M., Karatzas, N. (eds) Bringing Telecommunication Services to the People — IS&N '95. IS&N 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0016983
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