Easier Network Management

September 1997 / International Bits / Easier Network Management

Rainer Mauth
Java, the network-savvy programming language, simplifies network management by providing a common platform for heterogeneous networks. With Java's ability to easily traverse an intranet, a network administrator now has the flexibility to do management processes by using a Web browser, regardless of the location or platform.
A new management-by-Java development project from Novell, for example, uses Java's cross-platform capabilities. A small U.K. start-up, Jyra Research (London), however, says that Java's distributed computing power can do away with the poll-and-return operations of existing network administration tools, because it can analyze application performance locally and therefore free up the network by reducing mana gement traffic.
Jyra Research has released probe and analysis tools that monitor intranet or Internet sessions on an end-to-end basis. The company's Service Management Architecture (SMA) family of products includes an application response-time monitor that allows network administrators to control the quality of service and the application performance end users see rather than the performance of single network components (e.g. router, server, and hub) that traditional management systems monitor.

A New Breed of Tools
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Java enables a new breed of network management tools.

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Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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