Remote Control and Overall Administration of Computer Networks, Using Short Message Service

Abstract

There is always a great concern for network administrators, how to deal with network failure in reasonable time span. Network failure can happen any time of the day and administrator may not be informed in time and even then would not be able to enforce the remedy effectively. This scenario will arise when physical access to the network devices is not possible; i.e. the administrator is away from network locations. In this paper a new approach has been adopted in such a way that, the information on network status is gathered by an application, using SNMP protocol and is sent to network administrator by SMS. This approach also will allow network administrator to apply all necessary commands, using SMS. The short messages are then converted to be used by SNMP protocol to rectify faults, causing network failure.