Cameron Laird's personal notes on network management
According to
OSI,
Network Management subsumes
- Configuration Management,
- Performance Management,
- Fault Management,
- Security Management,
- Accounting Management, and
- Network Capacity Planning.
Much of the information I've collected about network management
I've organized with notes about the specific
SNMP
(standard for data network hosts, printers, and UPSs)
and
CMIP (favored
by telcos)
protocols.
I also do my own low-level
network
programming and
administration,
mostly centered this
decade around IP and Unix.
I'm currently working on a
course
called "Network Management with Scotty".
Explain Element Management Systems.
The Network
Management Resource Database is outstanding, and still growing.
Christine Gressley also has a fine
network
management jump table.
comp.dcom.net-management
is the standard public newsgroup.
NetMan
is a site explicitly in support of the newsgroup.
Project:
Network Management
The Network Management Forum
Network management generally is considered in relation to
system administration.
Picking the right NMS
Products
- TME from Tivoli
- Spectrum from Cabletron
- PathWay Management Station from Wollongong
- Netware Management Systems from Novell
- NerveCenter from Seagate
- ADAX
- InCharge from SMARTS
automates fault and performance management
- NetExpert from OSII
(CMIP-biased) [this seems to be a slow and over-worked server]
- AT&T: Compulert; Starkeeper
- Trakker [Network Health] from Concord Communications
- Maxm
- RouterManager from StonyBrook
Software
- Network General
- HIS Technologies AG has recently developed an
OpenView client
for OpenVMS in association with HP
- NM*Server from Comtek also works under OpenVMS
- BayNetworks's Optivity
- NOCOL is
neat freeware
- network analysis:
- security:
- F-Secure
SSH Client products provide secure logins over insecure networks.
This is quite interesting.
an interesting
book on network management with
Tcl.
Cameron
Laird's notes on
network management/claird@phaseit.net