1 The Network Management Challenge
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Internet And Network Management
1.3 lnternet Structure
1.4 Managing An Entity
1.5 Internal And External Policies
1.6 The State Of Network Management
1.7 Network Management In The Gartner Model
1.8 Benefits Of Automation
1.9 The Lack Of Industry Response
1.10 Impact On Business
1.11 Distributed Systems And New Abstractions
1.12 Remainder Of The Text
1.13 Summary
PART Ⅰ Basics And Definitions
Chapter 2 A Review Of Network Elements And Services
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Network Devices And Network Services
2.3 Network Elements And Element Management
2.4 Effect Of Physical Organization On Management
2.5 Examples Of Network Elements And Services
2.6 Basic Ethernet Switch
2.7 VLAN Switch
2.8 Access Point For A Wireless LAN
2.9 Cable Modem System
2.10 DSL Modem System And DSLAM
2.11 CSU/DSU Used In Wide Area Digital Circuits
2.12 Channel Bank
2.13 IP Router
2.14 FirewaU
2.15 DNS Server
2.16 DHCP Server
2.17 Web Server
2.18 HTTP Load Balancer
2.19 Summary
Chapter 3 The Network Management Problem
3.1 Introduction
3.2 What Is Network Management?
3.3 The Scope Of Network Management
3.4 Variety And Multi-Vendor Environments
3.5 Element And Network Management Systems
3.6 Scale And Complexity
3.7 Types Of Networks
3.8 Classification Of Devices
3.9 FCAPS: The Industry Standard Definition
3.10 The Motivation For Automation
3.11 Why Automation Has Not Occurred
3.12 Organization Of Management Software
3.13 Summary
Chapter 4 Configuration And Operation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Intuition For Configuration
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Chapter 5 Fault Detection And Correction
Chapter 6 Accounting And Billing
Chapter 7 Performance Assessment And Optimization
Chapter 8 Security
PART Ⅱ Tools And Platforms
Chapter 9 Management Tools And Technologies
Chapter 10 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Chapter 11 Flow Data And Flow Analysis (NetFIow)
Chapter 12 Routing And Traffic Engineering
Chapter 13 Management Scripting
PART Ⅲ The Future Of Network Management
Chapter 14 Network Automation: Questions And Goals
Chapter 15 Architectures For Network Management Software
Chapter 16 Representation, Semantics, And Information Models
Chapter 17 Design Tradeoffs
Chapter 18 Open Questions And Research Problems
Bibliography
Index