Mobile Agent-Based Network Administration System

Abstract

Managing, monitoring, and maintaining computer networks are complex process, especially when dealing with diverse networks. Automating and streamlining network management across heterogeneous networks remains a significant challenge. To address this, our research proposes a framework that leverages on mobile agents to perform network management tasks. This framework accommodates the limitations of various network devices that cannot run mobile agents. The objectives of this study is to create a network management framework using mobile agents to investigate the utility of equipment, internet protocol (IP) routers, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches and several management stations in real heterogeneous network. Also, the framework can be utilized on existing networks. Methodology: previous frameworks were reviewed and a framework was proposed, thereafter a mobile Agent-based network administration system (diagnostic and search) was developed. Experimental results show that the mobile agents developed can efficiently execute certain network management tasks, particularly search and diagnostic tasks, which can pinpoint the root cause of network failures by exploring alternative paths to gather additional data and the model have 92.78% accuracy performance from analysis