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Text Books and References Network Management: Principles and
Practice: Mani Subramanian, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-35742-9 SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 and RMON1 and 2: William Stallings, 3rd edition, Addison Wesley,
ISBN: 0-201-48534-6 Network Management: A Practical
Perspective Leinwand, A. and Fang K., Addison Wesley
Essential SNMP Douglas Mauro and Kevin Schmidt, O’Reilly online version:
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/snmp/ Other RFCs and Research papers
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Course Outline
Network Management: Principles, Standards and Models.
Computer Networks and the Internet Application, Transport and Network layer Network Management Protocols and Abstract
Syntax Notation One (ASN.1). Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Structure of Management Information (SMI),
Management Information Base (MIB). SNMPv2 SNMPv3 Remote Monitoring (RMON), RMON 1 and 2.
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Course Outline
OSI Systems management and Telecommunications Management Network (TMN).
Network Management Applications (Configuration, Performance, Fault and Security management).
Distributed Management Framework (management by delegation, mobile agent based management, etc.)
CORBA based management, web based management, JMX and DMTF.
ATM Network Management.
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Course Outline
Marking Scheme:o Midterm1 35%o Midterm2 35%o Project 25%o Homeworks 5%
More info:www.ciise.concordia.ca/~assi/courses/inse7120.htm
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Background
Today’s “Information Infrastructure” (or simply the Internet) is increasingly growing up o large number of interconnected heterogeneous sub-networks
and a wide range of distributed applications (100s or 1000s of interacting hardware/software components)
Other complex systems requiring monitoring, control jet airplane nuclear power plant Others
In such a large network, many things can go wrong o therefore disabling the network or a portion of it and
degrading performance to an unacceptable level!
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Background
During the old days, a network can be managed by using only human efforts!o In a small system, running few “pings” may help
locating the problemo As the Internet becomes a large global infrastructure,
automated network management tools are essential o Standardized tools that can be used across a broad
spectrum of product types are also needed
Therefore, a network management system (NMS) is a collection of tools for network monitoring and controlo Just as an airplane cockpit allows a pilot to monitor,
control, analyze, configure, etc.
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Network Management
Failure of Interface Card A network admin by
monitoring and analyzing network traffic may detect problems in any interface card and replace it - e.g., increase in
checksum errors in frames sent out by this interface;
Host Monitoring A network admin
periodically checks to see if all hosts are operational
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Network Management
Monitoring traffic/resource deployment
By monitoring link utilization, a network admin may determine system bottleneck and provision higher bandwidth link instead, to avoid congestion
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Network Management
Rapid changes in routing tables
If detected may prevent instabilities in routing and hence prevent a network from going down
Intrusion detection Network admin requests
to be notified when traffic is destined to/arrives from a suspicious source
Detect the existence of a certain type of traffic (e.g., security attacks)
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"Network management includes the deployment, integration and coordination of the hardware, software, and human elements to monitor, test, poll, configure, analyze, evaluate, and control the network and element resources to meet the real-time, operational performance, and Quality of Service requirements at a reasonable cost."
*T.Saydam, T. Magendaz “From Networks and Network Management into Service and Service Management” Journal of Networks and System Management, Vol.4, No.4, Dec. 1996
What is Network Management?*
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What is Network Management?
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) has created a network management model. 5 areas of network management are classified
- Performance Management - Fault Management - Configuration Management- Security Management- Accounting Management
This classification has gained broad acceptance by vendors of both standardized and proprietary NMS
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Performance Management
Goal: Quantify, measure, report, analyze, and control the performance of different network components (such as routers, hosts, as well as end to end abstractions, such as a path through the network)
Two functional categories- Monitoring (ability to monitor
and track activities on the network)
- Controlling (ability to make adjustments to improve network performance).
Measuring Performance- Throughput (whether reduced
to unacceptable level!)- Response time (i.e. network
delays)- Utilization- Error rates (identify
bottlenecks)- Availability
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Fault Management
Goal: Log, detect, and respond to fault conditions in the network
Immediate* handling of transient network failures (link, host, router hardware or software outages)
Faults are to be distinguished from Errors
- A fault is an abnormal condition and requires management attention to repair (e.g. link cut)
- An Error is a single event! (e.g. single bit error on a line)
*performance management takes longer term view in the face of varying traffic demands and occasional network device failures.
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Configuration Management
Goal: Allow a network manager to track which devices are on the network and the hardware and software configurations of these devices.
Consists of the following steps:
- Gather information about current network, maintain an up-to-date inventory of all network components
- Use that data to modify the configuration of the network device (reconfiguration*)
* Reconfiguration of a network is often desired in response to performance evaluation or in support of network upgrade, fault recovery, or security checks.
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Security Management
Goal: Control access to network resources according to well defined policy.
Identifying sensitive information (e.g., network management information) and protecting it
Security at different levels
- Physical & Data Link Levels Encryption
- Network Level packet filters
- Application Level (host, user and key) authentication
- Popular Level Firewalls & VPNs
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Accounting Management
Goal: Specify, log, and control user and device access to network resources
…usage quotas, usage-based charging, the allocation of resource-access privileges…
…Accounting reports should be generated periodically
A network manager should track the use of network resources
- A user may be abusing his access privilege and burdening the network at the expense of other users. (e.g., a user may be violating his service contract)
- Planning for network growth
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Infrastructure for Network Management
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