Abstract
This paper proposes a Web-based distributed network management architecture in which the HTTP protocol is used for a network management console to access network management applications and for network management applications located at different sites to communicate with each other. No other protocol is used for communications between the console and network management applications or between the network management applications. The major advantage of using the same protocol (HTTP) for console-application and application-application communications is that the network management server requires minimum system resources such as computation power, memory, disk space, and etc. This is particularly important when a network management server is to be embedded in a device.