A Software Engineering Approach to Computer Networks Management (original) (raw)

Computer network management: theory and practice

This paper discusses a non-traditional course in computer networking. The course is a laboratory course with substantial hands-on experiences, which can help to prepare students for jobs in industry as soon as they graduate from an undergraduate institution. This course is not meant to replace the traditional network course but to supplement it by teaching how computer networks work in practice and by exploring new topics such as internetworking, high speed networking, client/server computing and security.

Network Management System Framework and Development 1

We present the framework development of network management system approach. This research designs for network management system monitoring in Local Area Network (LAN) environment. The main objective of this study is to monitor and measure the server performance, thus to analyze whether the server is normal, optimal or overloaded. As a result, this framework of network management system can provide measurement of the server network traffic observed in the real network environment. In addition, this framework of network management system can also provide a best practice for developers to implement the network management system in real time basic.

An Integrated and Automated Network Management and Operation System

2005

Computer network management is an area that demands lots of work and lacks tools and professionals qualified to the management of the most diverse administration domains. In this context, this work describes the project and development of an integrated, dynamic and automated system that is able to simplify and reduce the time needed for many daily tasks of network administrators. The initial results on the developed prototype show that the system can be used to solve or automate many management tasks.

Designing enterprise-oriented network management applications

IEEE GLOBECOM 1998 (Cat. NO. 98CH36250)

The success of integrated network and systems management solutions depends on the integration of business processes with network and systems management. The increasing distribution of management resources (including people) necessitate groupware/workflow-integrated enterprise-wide solutions for network management. The design of network management systems involves the cooperation of multiple groups of people within and across organisations. Hence it may he useful to adopt a formal design methodology. However, such a methodology needs to he flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of design models and notations in this multidisciplinary area of research. This paper presents a new methodology (called CoMEN) for the design and implementation of enterprise-oriented network management solutions.

Management of large communication networks: A case study

2010

In the previous paper [6] authors outlined three basic implementation methods and discussed aspects of how to compare suitability of different approaches for building and operating a system, which supports a telecommunication network configuration management. Based on those evaluation criteria this case study will assess and compare main features and effectiveness of individual alternative implementation methods. It is explained, why the implementation method of the Dynamic relational data storing has proven the most efficient out of the three alternatives. This method was successfully implemented in Eurotel (currently Telefonica O2) network management and this implementation enabled an immediate view on all managed network settings, a dramatic speedup of most activities, reduction of errors, better exploitation of capacity of individual network elements and significant reduction of hardware costs. The method could be generally utilized for solution of a broad category of real problems.

NETWORK MANAGEMENT: A CAPSTONE DESIGN EXPERIENCE

2002

 This paper describes a graduate course in Network Management and its capstone project/design experience. First the paper introduces the objectives of Network Management and presents the characteristics and culminating features of the course assignments. We believe the network management project/design assignment is a valuable synthesizing opportunity and makes this a worthy capstone course in the Graduate Certificate program in Computer Network Communications. The Network Management course is offered by Rensselaer At Hartford and focuses on the essential aspects of monitoring, controlling and managing a significantly large enterprise network. The course encourages the computer science or engineering student to look at the bigger operational issues of network configuration, fault, performance, accounting and security management. The course and its design project span the disciplines of computer science, computer engineering, information technology and management. Second, the paper presents the project/design proposal requirements. Each student, working in groups of 2 -4 students, is expected to prepare a proposal for network management systems and services for a hypothetical company that has medium-to-large size LANs and WAN networks. The requirements are open ended, and as a resulting benefit, the student teams explore contemporary management solutions as well as newer frontiers of objectoriented, web-based enterprise management. The paper concludes with an evaluation of the effectiveness of the project/design proposal assignment.

Network Management: State of the Art

This paper examines the state-of-the-art enabling technologies for network management, including policy-based network management, distributed object computing, Web-based network management, Java-based network management, code mobility, intelligent agents, active networks, and economic theories. For each of them, we discuss the underlying concept, analyze the benefits and drawbacks, and discuss the applicability to network management. In doing so, we illustrate the common trend in network management design: moving towards distributed intelligence.

Managing the Cost of Computer Network

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

As networked installations become larger, more complex, and more heterogeneous, the cost of managing it rises. To manage such costs, standardised tools are needed to be employed across a broad spectrum of product types, including end systems, routers, bridges and telecommunications equipment, which can be used in a mixed vendor environment. To meet this demand a simple network management protocol (SNMP) has been developed to provide a tool for multivendor and interoperable network management. This Study reviews two network management protocols and their applicability within a managed network environment. It is inferred from the study that RMON has a lot of advantages over SNMP in the areas of efficiency, remote monitoring and management of large computer network.

MASTER THESIS ADMINISTRATION OF REMOTE COMPUTER NETWORKS

Today's computer networks have gone from typically being a small local area network, to wide area networks, where users and servers are interconnected with each other from all over the world. This development has gradually expanded as bandwidth has become higher and cheaper.