M.Tech II Year I Semester (R22)
The Network Management Challenge: Introduction, The Internet and Network Management, Internet Structure, Managing an Entity, Internal and External policies, The state of Network Management, Network Management in the Gartner Model, Benefits of Automation, The Lack of Industry Response, Impact on Business, Distributed Systems and new abstractions. A Review of Network Elements and Services: Introduction, Network Devices and Network Services, Network Elements and Element Management, Effect of physical organization on Management, Examples of Network Elements and Services, Basic Ethernet Switch, VLAN Switch, Access Point for a Wireless LAN, Cable Modem System, DSL Modem System and DSLAM, CSU/DSU used in Wide Area Digital Circuits, Channel Bank, IP Router, Firewall, DNS Server, DHCP Server, Web Server, HTTP Load Balancer.
The Network Management Problem: Introduction, What is Network Management?, The scope of Network Management, variety and multi-vendor environments, element and network management systems, scale and complexity, types of networks, classification of devices, FCAPS: The Industry Standard Definition, The motivation for automation, Why Automation has not occurred, Organization of management Software. Configuration and Operation: Introduction, Intuition for configuration, configuration and protocol layering, dependencies among configuration parameters, seeking a more precise definition of configuration, configuration and temporal consequences, configuration and global consistency, global state and practical systems, configuration and default values, partial state, automatic update and recovery, Interface paradigm and incremental configuration, commit and rollback during configuration, automated rollback and timeout, snapshot, configuration, and partial state, separation of setup and activation.
Fault detection and correction: Introduction, Network Faults, Trouble Reports, Symptoms, And Causes, Troubleshooting And Diagnostics, Monitoring, Baselines, Items That Can Be Monitored, Alarms, Logs, And Polling, Identifying The Cause Of A Fault, Human Failure And Network Faults, Protocol Layering And Faults, Hidden Faults And Automatic Correction, Anomaly Detection And Event Correlation, Fault Prevention. Performance Assessment and Optimization: Introduction, aspects of performance, Items that can be measured, measures of network performance, application and endpoint sensitivity, degraded service, variance in traffic and congestion, congestion, delay and utilization, local and end-to-end measurements, passive observation Vs. active probing, bottlenecks and future planning, capacity Planning, planning the capacity of a switch, planning the capacity of a router, planning the capacity of an Internet connection, measuring peak and average traffic on a link, estimated peak utilization and 95th percentile, relationship between average and peak utilization, consequences for management
and the 50/80 Rule, capacity planning for a complex topology, a capacity planning process, route changes and traffic engineering, failure scenarios and availability.
Security: Introduction, The illusion of a secure network, security as a process, security terminology and concepts, management goals related to security, Risk Assessment, Security policies, acceptable use policy, basic technologies used for security, management issues and security, Security architecture: Perimeter Vs. Resources, element coordination and firewall unification, resource limits and denial of service, management of authentication, access control and user authentication, management of wireless networks, security of the network, role-based access control, audit trails and security logging, key management. Management tools and technologies: Introduction, the principle of most recent change, the evolution of Management tools, management tools as applications, using a separate network for management, types of management tools, physical layer testing tools, reach ability and connectivity tools (ping), packet analysis tools, discovery tools, device interrogation interfaces and tools, event monitoring tools, triggers, Urgency Levels, And Granularity, events, Urgency Levels and traffic, performance monitoring tools, flow analysis tools, routing and traffic engineering tools, Configuration tools, Security Enforcement tools, Network Planning tools, Integration of Management tools, NOCs and Remote Monitoring, Remote CLI Access, Remote Aggregation Of Management Traffic.
Network Management Tools: Zabbix Labs, Nagios, Google Cloud network, Automation with Terraform.
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