Abstract: A fault management policy of the combination of the total and distributed based on the network protocol architecture and the network topology architecture is presented. First of all, the character of the artillery tactics intranet is analyzed, along with the limitation of the centralized fault management method. And then the synthesizing fault management policy is presented. At the last, an artillery tactics intranet is taken as an example used to explain how to realize the policy. The policy has been successfully applied to a certain army communication network management simulation system.