Abstract

During the last two years the International Standards Organization (ISO) IEC JTC1/SC21/WG4 and other ISO Working Groups have defined many Open System Interconnection (OSI) system management standards. These standards have recently reached a stable stage, in the form of the Network Management (NM) Forum working standards, thus providing computer network developers with confidence to implement the OSI network management services. These organizations intend to provide interoperable OSI network management interfaces to network management communities. Today, the developers of network management systems need to widen the management scope of NMSs (i.e. to make proprietary objects visible through their standardization by converting objects into Managed Object Classes). The graphical compiler design outlined here - Graphical Object Verifier and Managed Object Class Precompiler (Ovmop) - reduces much of the expert knowledge required on the part of the implementors of MOCs. It provides a high-level approach to organizing containment graphs by means of prototyping the MOCs hierarchy of a NMS; for example, the NM Forum MOCs.

Author Keywords: ASN1; containment graph; graphical object verifier, managed object class precompiler; managed object class; managed object instance