FAULT DETECTION SYSTEM IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK (LAN) USING MOBILE AGENTS

Abstract

Network management is a service that employs a range of tools and applications to recognize existing and potential loss of service, as well as helping the managers in monitoring and maintaining the network. Fault management tools can help to increase the reliability of the network by identifying the fault and then initiate the recovery process to overcome these faults. Fault management is the process of locating, analysing, fixing and reporting network problems such as wrong system configuration, error in proxy server and other overhead problems. This, in turn, makes the network more efficient and productive. Its can save repair costs during detections, isolations and faults correction procedures. In this thesis, the LAN network can detect the fault in the network via mobile agent. Because every time it is unfeasible to send a technician to test every faulty node because there will, potentially, be too many to cover. A mobile agent (MA) with enough knowledge about the problem may run a number of tests and attempt to repair the node remotely (Chenxi, 2007). However, the solution proposed in this research work is a software application that provides the network administrator with per time operational performance status of systems on the network and improve performance of the entire network.