Improving reliability of intelligent agents for network management

The Intelligent Agent technology is being more and more used in treating all kind of information : in the case of network management, where machines monitor machines, a special care must be taken with respect to the reliability of the information. In this paper we discuss how to ensure reliability using the System Level Diagnosis. A diagnosis test specially designed for the network management using a multi-agent system is presented, and we show how the SLD technique was implemented in the scope of the DIANA project.