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Record W7162016357 · doi:10.82308/20507

A policy based network configuration framework /

2002· dissertation· en· W7162016357 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Zhifeng Xiao

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMobile Agent-Based Network Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSimple Network Management ProtocolNetwork management stationNetwork managementNetworking hardwareNetwork management applicationNetwork monitoringConfiguration Management (ITSM)Modular designProtocol (science)

Abstract

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Networks and their services have been growing rapidly in recent years, so has the complexity of configuring the network operations. In order to manage the rapidly expanding networks, new management protocols are thus needed to change the network management from configuration of individual devices to automation of the whole network. SNMPCONF, a policy-based configuration with SNMP protocol, is proposed by IETF to meet this requirement. SNMPCONF is suggested to configure networks with a policy MIB (Management Information Base). However, deploying this protocol in existing network devices needs more work, because the policy MIB defined by SNMPCONF is not implemented now in the present network and no configuration MIB defined. Even if the configuration MIB and policy MIB implemented by vendors in future, some existing devices may not be upgraded to support these MIB for their hardware limitation (e.g., memory limit). Another problem is found in the communication between a SNMP supported network and the SNMP unsupported networks (e.g. telecommunication network where TL1 is used in North America). In this study, CLI and TL1 are used to help solving these problems. Based on Modular SNMP from University of Quebec at Montreal, a JAVA framework to deploy SNMPCONF with this approach is implemented and tested on a network built with Cisco routers (Cisco IOS 12.0, routers ranged from Catalyst 2600 to 2900). The preliminary work shows the SNMPCONF can be implemented by wrapping CLI commands as accessory functions in policy language without configuration MIB. As shown in this work, another advantage of this approach is that policy execution is atomic and persistent.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.051

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0040.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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