Today the networks have become a critical piece of the business process so Downtime costs money and if they Efficient networks, that means additional revenue.
Network management is a proactive tool and it gives many advantages like:
- – Provides visibility into current network operations
- – Reduces network cost of ownership
- – Leverages IT personnel
Where Are Most Customers Today?
Today most of the customers like to have networkes which with new technologies like Performing ad hoc device management on evolving networks and technologies. Struggling with the transition to proactive, business-oriented service-level management.
Network Management Process
The following figger gives you the clear view of how should be the Management Process done.
There are some three staps which are more importance when we conducting a Management Segment
Plan / Design:
- – Build history
- – Baseline
- – Trend analysis
- – Capacity planning
- – Procurement
- – Topology design
Implement / Deploy
- – Installation and configuration
- – Address management
- – Adds, moves, changes
- – Security
- – Accounting/billing
- – Assets/inventory
- – User management
- – Data management
Oparate / Maintain
- – Define thresholds
- – Monitor exceptions
- – Notify
- – Correlate
- – Isolate problems
- – Troubleshoot
- – Bypass/resolve
- – Validate and report