This paper aims at investigating mobile agent tradeoffs in network management by performing management task simulations. Results show that the mobile agent performs better than the SNMP when the number of managed network elements ranges between two limits: an inferior bound, associated with the number of messages that pass through backbone links, and a superior bound, related to incremental size of mobile agent. Furthermore, if the network is divided into several domains and one mobile agent is assigned to each domain, instead of using a single mobile agent to manage the whole network, the results show that the response time decreases up to 90% when using 8 mobile agents.