Communication Networks Management

Communication Networks Management, 2/e

Kornel Terplan

Published August, 1991 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

This guide highlights the three most critical success factors in network management including its functions, instruments, and human resource skills, showing how to avoid errors and successfully manage communication networks. The guide describes how to use the connectivity and manageability components of a network to improve system efficiency, integrity, and security; explores the performance impact of the network components; offers a state-of-the-review of proprietary, de-facto, and standard architectures; illustrates three classes of network management tools, explaining how to choose among them and implement them for optimum data output; discusses the capabilities of communication software for extracting information from the network; explores the immediate, short-term, and long-term decisions or operational, tactical, and strategic network management; and focuses on six-activity areas to help support the decision-making process of managers, analysis, operators, designers, and network management planners.

Features

shows readers how to save time with guidelines for effectively evaluating and comparing products.
explains how to slash expenses across the board with cost-justification techniques and financial analyses.
allows readers to save work time with guidelines for selecting advanced technology products.
provides examples for both Ethernet and Token-Ring-type local area networks instrumentation.
shows readers how to improve job performance of all personnel with in-depth coverage of required staff duties, information requirements, job contacts, and qualifying experiences.

Table of Contents

1. Critical Success Factors of Network Management
2. Networking Trends
3. Generic Architecture of a Network Management Product
4. Information Extraction and Collection Instruments
5. Instruments for Information Compression, Processing, and Databasing
6. Instruments for Performance Prediction
7. Configuration Management
8. Fault Management
9. Performance Management
10. Security Management
11. Accounting Management
12. Network Capacity Planning
13. Network Management Directions and Solutions
14. Cost Justification of Implementing Network Management Solutions
15. Future Trends of Managing Communication Networks