Uniform infrastructure for configuration and management of network devices and services

摘要

Today computer landscape is service orientated and services need to adapt to user’s wishes. This has also changed the requirements for management and configuration of the network infrastructure. Due to frequent changes in the network operators are faced with the challenge of how to most effectively implement programmatic management of computer networks and services.ududIn this master thesis, we studied management and configuration of computer networks and services. We put emphasis on different approaches and protocols for managing network elements and languages used to model their configuration and operating state. We surveyed existing solutions for network management and placed them into four groups.ududWe proposed architecture for uniform network device and service management and configuration. We implemented and tested proposed architecture in our laboratory test bed network. We used two common use cases network managers face today to demonstrate its usefulness. In doing so we showed how network devices and services could be configured and how problems in the network could be remediated using the proposed uniform infrastructure.