TI Network Management with Consistently Managed Objects 

LT CUCS-013-90 

OR COLUM 

YR 1990 

AU Shyhtsun F. Wu 

AU Gail E. Kaiser 

AV ftp cs.columbia.edu:pubreportsreports-1990cucs-013-90.ps.Z 

AB A {\it consistency constraint} exists between two objects in a
network {\it management information base (MIB)} if a change in
value of one object will cause a change in another.  Based on the
definition of {\it common knowledge} by Halpern, Fagin, and
Moses, such constraints can be classified by the time needed to
maintain them and the probability of correctly maintaining them.
In this paper, we study the practical issues of how to build an
MIB with a set of objects and consistency constraints. We will go
through an experimental MIB example showing that distributed
network entities can be consistently managed in an elegant way,
even when the network environment is very dynamic.