摘要：Distributed systems management has steadily evolved from a centralized
paradigm, where all the management processing takes place in a single management
station, to distributed paradigms, where management is distributed over a potentially
large number of nodes. Mobile agent technology conserves network bandwidth and
improves management efficiency by decreasing network traffic. Furthermore, the use of
mobile agent technology to distribute and delegate tasks promises to overcome
scalability and flexibility limitations of the centralized management paradigms. This
paper proposes a new multiagent based system for management of distributed systems.
This proposed system adopts mobile agents as a technology for achieving management
tasks. The presented results are based on a design example of an application operating
in a mobile environment.
