Overview

• A project investigating problem diagnosis and repair, in a network management context, using mobile code,

• written entirely in Java

• consists of a mobile code infrastructure, mobile agents, and GUIs for the network operator

  • uses the Mobile Code Toolkit (MCT) developed as part of the Perpetuum Mobile Procura agent project
    • infrastructure to allow the injection and migration of mobile code, uniform access to managed resources, and inter-agent communication
  • autonomous, mobile code agents
    • Diagnostic, query, and repair agents available
    • agents can perform tests on the installed hardware and software components on a node, query information on these components, or repair software related problems on the node (software version incompatibilities, software settings problems, etc.)
  • GUIs
    • use widgets from Java Foundation Classes (JFC) or Swing
    • allow the network operator to interact with mobile agents remotely

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