A staged approach for TMN to TINA migration
Daniel Ranc
Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, France
George Pavlou, David Griffin, Alex Galis
University College London, UK
Abstract
The TINA architecture is often perceived as a service layer specialised framework ; however a detailed examination of the architectural context and ongoing work in the field demonstrates that it is not so, and that the TINA architecture can be envisioned as a Network Management framework as well if care is taken about some specific qualities of the TMN. Having acquired that point, the paper proposes a conceptual architecture for interworking TMN and TINA based systems. It then describes a component architecture for a migrating OSI MIB that demonstrates concretely the feasibility of building a TMN-able agent running in a TINA-based environment.
Full paper in proceedings of the TINA'97 Conference, Santiago, Chile, November 1997, Proceedings published by IEEE.