System and method for management of remote devices in a network

摘要

A system and method of managing devices connected to a network by restricted bandwidth links, where a restricted bandwidth link comprises a wireless or other link which has a relatively limited amount of bandwidth available and/or a link wherein bandwidth is relatively expensive. The network has one or more master agents executing which communicate with proxy agents upstream of the restricted bandwidth links and which maintain management information about the managed objects that is obtained from both network management services for the restricted links and from relatively simple servers running at the managed objects. Communication between the proxy agents and the servers is by way of a simple protocol and the master agent performs translations to and from more complicated management protocols used in other parts of the network and this simple protocol.