Ch.8 - Network Management
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Network Management is used for the management of different components in a network.With network management you can get information about errors and performance. You canalso use network management for remote configuration of different devices.Error control is done by continuous polling for status information about the ”health” of different components in the network. When something is wrong it is reported to the network administrator.
Network Management normally has 4 components:1.
The component that supervises. This component is called NMS, the Network Management Server, and is used to manage the entire network. It receives all the informationand displays it. Commonly used NMS platforms are HP Open View and IBM Tivoli.
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The component that is supervised. This component is called NMA, the Network Management Agent. The NMA is a network component, for example a router, a switch or ahub, but it could also be a host such as a workstation, a printer or a server.
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A protocol that transfers the information between the agent and the server. Onecommonly used protocol is SNMP, the Simple Network Management Protocol.
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A list of possible things to manage. These things are called MIB, the ManagementInformation Base. Example of things that can be managed are: the time a device has been upand running since the last reboot, information from the routing table in a router and so on.
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