AGENT BASED NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Recent years have witnessed rapid growth rates in computer network traffic. Network
administrators scramble to keep pace with increasing demands by continually adding
capacity. Still, network users are often dissatisfied with theperformance of the network.
The growth in popularity of newresources in multimedia applications promises to
enhance this condition. It is a new idea about a less than a year ago to have a design - An
Agent-Based Network Management System to monitor a certain network architecture via
agents that has been sent inorder to detect various faultiness of host. These faults include
PC's that has been infected with viruses, propagated worms or even a conflicted host.
However, these faults are going to benarrowed down. Fundamentally, thisproject is
implemented to solve the problem ofmanaging the network to itsfull capacity, thus
eliminating problematic occurrence onthe network and onto other users. The
methodology applied for thisproject is the Systems Development LifeCycle (SDLC)
which has about 5 phases. Bythe endof this project, a few limitations and
recommendations might bemade with thepurpose of enhancing some ofthe project
functions.