Nms Security Systems

ISSUES IN TELECOMM NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Abstract: Computers offer the possibilities of integrated control, process optimisation, enhanced operator interfaces, data concentration, data storage and systematic approach to Network Management. This led to using programming concepts in various industrial applications. Telecomm industry is one of the widely influenced ones with the idea of computerising various jobs, which otherwise require a large group of technically trained professionals. Telecomm Network Management System (TNMS) is one of such applications dealing with Telecomm Network Manager’s (TNM) duties. TNMS uses the client-server concept, with remote procedure calls as the standard way of interaction. Script languages have emerged that explicitly support agent-oriented programming - in that they make available easy-to-use programming constructs to build autonomous objects. These objects not only may accumulate knowledge and perform reasoning, but also may also migrate between host machines by their own decision. All agent-based systems, impressive as their potential benefits may rightly seem, may, however, be jeopardized in a commercial world by the lack of appropriate security mechanisms. This paper analyses the security aspects of the current state-of-theart TNMS and shows the problems of using mobile-agents in today’s scenario. Indeed, most agent systems do not address error recovery and auditing, privacy, and various aspects of trust among the participants. The aim of this paper is not to discuss the idea underlying mobile agents in general: only issues related to safety, security, and reliability is considered.

Keywords: mobile agents, security, cryptography, telecommunication.