UNIFIED MODEL BASED THREE DIMENSIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING COMPUTER NETWORKS

Meva Dodo, Patrice Torguet, Michelle Sibilla, Jean Pierre Jessel

2006

Abstract

Computer network management is a field where several researches have been done and many tools created. The last decades have seen the appearance of a new generation of management tools introducing a new approach based on graphical visualization enabling the users to explore visually a complete system. The main objective of the graphical visualization is to facilitate the different tasks of the administrators. This is particularly important when the system is becoming complex due to the growth of information flow, the heterogeneity of devices and environments or applications that handle this information. In this perspective this research is led with as a goal to study the benefit of the use of 3D graphical representation combined with an object-oriented information model (CIM - Common Information Model - proposed by the industrial consortium DMTF - Distributed Management Task Force). Through this research we have particularly focused on the necessary requirements to offer a high quality of visualization and the ways or languages allowing the modelling of all resources present in a complex computer network.

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Dodo M., Torguet P., Sibilla M. and Pierre Jessel J. (2006). UNIFIED MODEL BASED THREE DIMENSIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING COMPUTER NETWORKS . In Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-46-7, pages 256-263. DOI: 10.5220/0001251302560263


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@conference{webist06,
author={Meva Dodo and Patrice Torguet and Michelle Sibilla and Jean Pierre Jessel},
title={UNIFIED MODEL BASED THREE DIMENSIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING COMPUTER NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2006},
pages={256-263},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001251302560263},
isbn={978-972-8865-46-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of WEBIST 2006 - Second International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - UNIFIED MODEL BASED THREE DIMENSIONAL TOOL FOR MANAGING COMPUTER NETWORKS
SN - 978-972-8865-46-7
AU - Dodo M.
AU - Torguet P.
AU - Sibilla M.
AU - Pierre Jessel J.
PY - 2006
SP - 256
EP - 263
DO - 10.5220/0001251302560263