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Beyond the Web: Mobile WAP-Based Management

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Mobility, tightening competition and changes in system administrator behavior present new challenges in the management world. In particular, the need to constantly monitor services and rapidly identify and fix problems is becoming increasingly important. The Internet has made it possible to offer a comprehensive range of management services and applications accessible over the web. Nevertheless, in the near future a new and improved way to manage systems will be done by means of mobile phones. This paper shows how existing web-based solutions can be enhanced to support the new generation of media phones based on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology. Although the specific focus of this work is on management solutions, the rsults are general and applicable to many other types of existing web-based applications. Some implementation details and experiences drawn from adding a WAP interface to an existing web-based management application are described.

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Deri, L. Beyond the Web: Mobile WAP-Based Management. Journal of Network and Systems Management 9, 15–29 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009473517890

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