Network operations systems components
As discussed in the previous section, an effective network management strategy is a combination of people, process, and tools. Since this book is focused on the networking technology, we will cover the network-related aspects that will provide efficient and effective network management in the following sections. We will focus only on the service operations aspects of the network management, as a detailed discussion around the other aspects is beyond the scope of this book.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
An important aspect of network operations is to identify network incidents and provide reporting capabilities that will help in proactive problem analysis and root-cause analysis. This requires that specific information be continuously obtained from network devices, such as port status, protocol stats, the traffic load on interfaces, the CPU utilization, and devices. SNMP is a protocol that provides a message format to obtain this information...
