By Ehimare Philip Imobhio Sravya Kalapala and Prasanth Gutti Introduction Communication Networks has greatly increased in size and complexity recently Also end users and service level requirements have become drastically more vast This has made managing largescale ID: 611232
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Autonomic Network Management as a solution to Management Complexity
By
Ehimare Philip Imobhio,
Sravya Kalapala and
Prasanth Gutti
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Introduction
Communication Networks has greatly increased in size and complexity recently. Also, end users and service level requirements have become drastically more vast. This has made managing large-scale systems more difficult and it constantly on the increase. This project aim is to bring a lasting solution to this management complexity by managing current and future communication networks. We therefore are introducing Autonomic Network Management System.Slide3
This system has a major goal and this is to and this is to adapt the network’s services and resources in parallel to environmental changes and user requirements. We will also be introducing the Policy Network Management Architecture which enable the system to effectively automate low-level configurations in compliance with high level business goals therefore, the increasing management complexity can be handled by the system itself.Slide4
Factors Deciding Autonomic System Performance
Self Locating
Self Healing
Self Protecting
Self Configuring
Self Optimizing
Self and Context Awareness Slide5
Platform Requirements
Network-wide Prospective
Applications Involvement
Cognitive Support
Sensory Support
Human Supervision
Information InteroperabilitySlide6
Problem Definition: Networks is increasingly getting very Complex
The Complexity of system design and management is daily on an increase
Stovepipe systems: best-of-breed functionality but very difficult to integrate so they share functionalities and resources
Increased technology can be overwhelming to users and administrators
Different devices have different programming models and interaction models
Different management tasks and integration types require different skill levels
The business complexity is equally on the increase
Human demands is of a pervasive nature
A lot of different businesses Lose Money if they can not react fast enough to this demands
Varieties of threats, problems, and non-optimized behavior keeps increasing
Behavioral complexity is also increasing
Everything is now interconnected, therefore requiring different policies, rules and functions
Too complex to predict, needs a high skill level, not enough human resource!Slide7
Definition and Goal of Autonomic Network Management
AUTONOMIC NETWORK MANAGEMENT
Simplify network management process by automating and distributing the decision making processes involved in optimizing network
operation.
Enable expensive human attention to focus more on business logic and less on low level device configuration
processes.
GOALS
Minimize Operator Intervention.
Reduce dependencies on Human Resources to the barest minimum.
Reduces
Errors.
Supports agile
businesses.
Keep up with the explosive growth of the
InternetSlide8
Autonomic Management ArchitectureSlide9
Focale Autonomic Management
Stands for
F
oundation
O
bservation
C
omparison
A
ction
L
earn r
E
ason
It is based on the observation that business objectives, customer requirements, and environmental context all change dynamically
Two control loop
Inner control-loops
They make more detailed adjustments of functionality within a specific context.
Outer control loops
They perform large-scale adjustments by reacting to context changes.
It is unreasonable to assume that a single entity can maintain all the information required to realize the FOCALE control loops for large scale networks containing large numbers of heterogeneous devices
FOCALE must be a distributed architecture, to the degree that even individual network devices may incorporate autonomic management software, implementing the maintenance and adjustment control loopsSlide10
Types of Inner and Outer Loops There are three major types of Inner and Outer Loops:
Reactive control loops
Deliberative control loops
Reflective control loops
Reactive Control Loops: This path is taken when adapting to a previously analyzed context change. Here, a previously inferred behavioral change can be executed without complex reasoning.
Deliberative Control Loops: This is used when context changes that are not properly understood take place.
Reflective Control Loops: This provides an avenue to better understand how context changes affect the goals of AEs.
It is also important to note that these types of loops are dependent on cognitive phycology and human decision making history.Slide11
Communication Types Between Autonomic Elements
Cluster Management:
A cluster can be defined as the group of Autonomic Elements that have the same parent Autonomic Element. It is of great importance that we determine which Autonomic Element in each cluster will play the role of the parent. Hence Cluster Management.
Context Dissemination:
Context dissemination is an integral part of any autonomic management system, ultimately used to model the static state of its managed entities,
which also then allows the system to reshape to changes whenever effected.
Policy Interaction:
Although administrators of an autonomic management systems are not directly involved in configuring management algorithms and managed entities, they do control the entire process by adding rules to the rules repository.
Autonomic Element Collaboration:
Previously, we talked about how the interchange of policies and context and the organization of Autonomic Elements themselves can be handled. Here we will be focusing on another very important communication area in a distributed management environment and this is the behavioral orchestration between Autonomic Elements.
Management Algorithm:
These management algorithms oversee configuration of the managed entities, to make sure their state in turn reflect a desired state of the system. Slide12
ConclusionIn this project, we briefly discussed the current state of Management evolution in Computer Networks, and some of the challenges with the rapid expansion of the internet resources. We discussed the solution based on an Autonomic Network Management Initiative and the subsequent works on creating Autonomic Network Management platforms that are similar to these ideas. An architecture is presented, which will provides a specific set of functionalities to facilitate the creation of management containers, which are similar to a high-level goal. Slide13
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