Network management system uses proxy agent for communicating control information and event notifications between network management apparatus and agents not directly connected to a network

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PATENT NO 6836802
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09710907

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A configuration of a network management system capable of readily managing a plurality of agents having respective addresses, directly connecting the respective agents to a network without changing interfaces, and providing an agent connected singly to the network as a representative of the rest agents within the same node to a network management apparatus without changing interfaces is provided. In the network management system, agents 40, 50 and 60 are allocated different addresses which are unique worldwide and interconnected in node 10, agent 40 is directly connected to network 30, agents 40 to 60 are interconnected through interfaces similarly to network 30, and agents 40 to 60 are managed by network management apparatus 20 connected through network 30.

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NEC CORPORATION108-8001 TOKYO

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Iwai, Kazuhiro Tokyo, JP 20 300

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