Paper Info
Title
PACMAN: a platform for automated and controlled network operations and configuration management
Abstract
The lack of automation associated with network operations in general and network configuration management in particular, is widely recognized as a significant contributing factor to user-impacting network events. In this paper we present our work on the PACMAN system, a Platform for Automated and Controlled network operations and configuration MANagement. PACMAN realizes network operations by executing active documents, which systematically capture the dynamics in network management tasks. Active documents not only enable the complete execution of low-level configuration management tasks, but also allow the construction of more sophisticated tasks, while imposing additional reasoning logic to realize network-wide management objectives. We present the design, realization and evaluation of the PACMAN framework and illustrate its utility by presenting the implementation of several sophisticated operational tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1658939.1658971
CoNEXT
Keywords
Field
DocType
network management task,controlled network operation,network-wide management objective,user-impacting network event,pacman framework,network configuration management,pacman system,active document,network operation,low-level configuration management task,automation,network management,petri net,configuration management
Computer science,Element management system,Network operations center,Computer network operations,Network management,Configuration Management (ITSM),Network management application,Network management station,FCAPS,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.79
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xu Chen133419.54
Zhuoqing Morley Mao25719363.11
Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe31706217.92