Thursday, May 10, 2012

Monitoring Network Management Of An Organization

Network management is an area of information technology  which have  many applications, devices and tools are use to monitor and maintain a network. We are talk about networks related information technology. In past days only one person would be using a protocol analyzer to monitor the network.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has identifies five conceptual areas in network management.  Those conceptual areas of network management will give you a clear idea of network management .If you want to know the network management basics it is better to know something on network management architectures and the protocols use in the network management.

The network management protocol manage devices. It also  use to send and receive information. The most common protocol that is use in network management is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and the Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP)

The five conceptual  network areas  management model are below

 Performance Management: Performance management measure various aspects of the network performance. Some of the performance parameters are measure network throughput, user response times, and the line utilization.Also the data of the performance variables are gather and then analyze with a reference data. If the receive data is above the threshold value, it indicates that the network needs attention and then appropriate corrective actions are taken.

 Configuration Management:  Configuration management monitor the system configuration of the network computers and the various hardware and software that are used in the network. The systems for configuration management store and this information in a database for later retrieval.
 Accounting Management: Accounting management use to measure the network utilization parameters in such way that the users of the network are regulate properly. Such as regulations lead to optimal utilization of the network resources that have a very important  role in the performance management.
 Fault Management: Sometimes measures are taken automatically to fix the fault. Fault management is very important in the network though it will lead to a resource being idle and will  lead to network degradation It is a way to keep the network effectively. In that ways the faults are log, detect, and the users of the network are notifies of the fault. Usually fault are identifies and the system that is generating the fault is isolate so that it does not affect any of the  other systems and therefore the production in the company. Then the problem is fixed and the actions logged for later reference.
 Security Management: Security management is a very important part of the network management since we can not allow all the users to access all the information on the network.  It is used to control the access to the network based on the guidelines or may be rules provided. Appropriate rights should be given to the users to access the resources that are need by them only. Usually the network resources are partition for appropriate access. The access points in the networks are monitor and events log.

Many companies have now come out with excellent and better than better products for network management  there are many tools available for monitoring the activities of the network. It is the choice of the user to select a suitable product for their network.

1 comment:

  1. Network management has become an attractive option for IT. With support and maintenance of network infrastructure costing enterprises significant time and money, IT departments increasingly are considering using third-party providers for these services.

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