Existing centralized based network management
approaches suffer from problems such as insufficient
scalability, availability and flexibility, as
networks become more distributed. Mobile Agents (MA),
upgraded with intelligence, can present a reasonable
new technology that will help to achieve distributed
management. These agents migrate from one node to
another, accessing an appropriate subset of MIB
variables from each node analysing them locally and
retaining the results of this analysis during their
subsequence migration. One of the network fault
management tasks is fault detection, and in...