Ninad Kamerkar

In today's world of network computers our important documents are usually widely dispersed on several computers in our networks. Over a period of time, we forget their location and searching for these files on a huge network turns out to be a frustrating experience. Such searches are typically not only time-consuming, but also consume valuable and scarce network resources. This article provides an elegant solution to this problem. Here we'll present an application that simplifies the remote search operation on the entire network using mobile agent technology. We'll take advantage of code migration in mobile agents to reduce network traffic. A mobile agent locally searches each of the specified remote machines and sends the search results to the requestor. The application... (more)