Management performance evaluation means assessment of scalability, complexity, accuracy, throughput, delays and resource consumptions.This deliverable reports the main scientific results obtained in work-package 7 of the Emanics NoE. These activities started in July 2007 as a result of an open call for proposals and addressed three main topics: the analysis of network management trace collections, the distributed and scalable security monitoring and finally a new configuration paradigm based on voluntary cooperation. The reported content has been also the subject of submissions to several outstanding scientific conferences.