3 OMT-based design of management agents

 As described in the previous section, the GAMOCs based on the ODP viewpoint languages specify useful object classes for application management. They have to be represented in a notation permitting derivation of more application-specific MOCs that then can serve as a starting point for the design and implementation of appropriate management agents. It is therefore crucial to have a notation permitting refinement of the GAMOCs and definition of relationships between them. Furthermore, it should be possible to transform the resulting MOCs automatically into the description languages used by today's management architectures such as GDMO/ASN.1 (in the case of OSI) or IDL (for CORBA). This section describes our experiences with an object-oriented methodology that meets these requirements; furthermore, we show the application of our approach developed in section 2 to a real-life application management problem.