remote inventory software

To obtain the appropriate levels of remote inventory software from often scarce network resources experiencing contention, the fundamental concept of QoS must be appliednamely, that all packets are not equal. In other words, to resolve the contention, packets must be treated with managed unfairness (either preferentially or deferentially). In other words, administrative policies must be defined and deployed throughout the network infrastructure to ensure that each node makes consistent decisions about the relative importance of an individual packet (or flow) and adjusts its packet-handling behavior accordingly

This concept of unfairness applies equally to traffic for which higher levels of priority must be maintained (for example, to voice and video traffic) and traffic that is undesirable in the network (denial-of-service [DoS] or worm-generated traffic, or even general web surfing to destinations unrelated to the goals of the enterprise). The latter category of traffic introduces the concept of less than best-effort service, also referred to as Scavenger service (based on an Internet 2 draft specification). Best-effort or better service is provided to all desirable traffic on the network, but there is no sense in providing even best-effort service to unwanted traffic. Such Scavenger traffic, if not dropped outright, is carried only when remote inventory software is available