Design and Implementation of a CORBA/SNMP Gateway

This paper describes the design and implementation of a CORBA/SNMP gateway. The gateway is used to integrate traditional network management systems using CORBA. The integrated network management system uses World Wide Web (WWW) and CORBA. WWW provides a platform-independent and easy-to-use interface to distributed applications and CORBA is used to integrate different network management models seamlessly. To support the traditional managed objects without modification, we use a translation gateway between two different management models. The integrated network management server consists of a WWW server with enhancement for network management and translation gateways for converting management operations between different management models. This paper describes the design and implementation of a CORBA/SNMP gateway. The CORBA/SNMP gateway provides a syntactic and dynamic translation between CORBA and SNMP management models. The gateway provides a CORBA view to SNMP MIBs and allows the CORBA managers to access SNMP agents via CORBA operations. The CORBA/SNMP gateway also delivers the traps occurred in the SNMP agents to the CORBA managers that want to receive the trap information.