[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Clarify: XML and Network Management
Hello. A number of people has expressed interest in XML and Network Management, and they have asked me to clarify my stand on this issue. If you ever have to deal with network management, you would know that there are a wide range of protocols and methodology: CMIP, SNMP (version 1, 2 and 3), WBEM, etc. Each one was designed in their own era and application domain, and their own limitations. Now that XML is designed to be a universal way of transmitting structured data, I am wondering if we can utilize it for transmitting management information. Since XML is most likely to be tranported via HTTP, there will be no problem of bulk transfer (bulk transfer is a problem with SNMPv1). And security issues can also be resolved by solutions like SSL. Maybe one of the most appealing feature is that XML can be easily generated and parsed (or at least there are ample supply of tools on various platforms and languages), and it is supposed to be easy to turn an XML page to a presentation page like HTML. This way we can reduce the resource required to develop managed entities and management application. I believe if XML will be as universal as predicted (meaning tools that can understand and present it becomes widely available), then it will be beneficial for network management to utilize it. Carmel ==================================================================== Carmel Lau clau@p... Software Engineer Tel: (613) 831-8300 x 248 Plaintree Systems Inc. FAX: (613) 831-3283 xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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