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OPERA

An Architecture for Managing Large Computer Networks

Opera is a project funded by Dresdner Bank. It studies the problems inherent to current management systems and proposes an alternate system design that does not contain these shortcomings.

The Opera architecture consists of two main parts. A basic communication architecture and a service architecture. The main design goals are

orthogonality
uniformity
provide a common view to all managed objects and a set of base operations that can be applied to them
scalability
reliability

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