Astrolog is intended for the management of LAN configurations and its design goals are to build a light-weight, simple, portable, evolving and distributed network and system management environment. In Astrolog, no machine is dedicated to network and system management. Astrolog is distributed on the Astrolab workstations. Contributions Astrolog consists of a set of servers and managers communicating with SNMP agents located on the managed network elements. Servers communicate with SNMP agents to collect management information and store this information either in a database or in files.
Managers provide the client side of management applications through a Web interface.
The number of servers depends on the size of the network. Managers allow operators to do their work through any workstation. Managers are equally intelligent and act as domain managers being in charge of part of the network. The major advantage of Astrolog approach is that the management environment is highly portable and cost-effective. The Web interface provide a uniform interface on any operating system running a browser.