The ISO Network Management Model

The rumor on how Disney uses Network				Internet Service Providers to bill customers for the
Management. When the temperature rises on the park				resources they use.
grounds at Disneyland all the prices of the beverage				Configuration Management
vending machines automatically goes up by 10% to				The configuration side of network management is for
fully capitalize on consumer demand. I believe that is an				tracking the hardware and software versions on the
old Information Technology rumor to explain how				network to identify their effects on the network's
network management works... at least I hope it is a				operation. An example of this is Microsoft's System
rumor.				Management Server (SMS) which has the capability to
Why Network Management is important.				monitor, manage and track every piece of software
More and more organizations depend on their				and hardware on a given network.
networks. Business' the depend heavily on the status				Fault Management
of their networks must have network management				Fault Management is what most people think of when
tools as they grow. If a network dependent business				they think of network management. The purpose of
such as ebay, Google, Yahoo and many others go				this area of network management is to detect, log and
down for even a few minutes, they can loose literally				alert the system administrators of problems that might
hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales and even a				effect the systems operations.
small piece of their customer's confidence which could				Security Management
in turn affect the value of their stock. When every				Security Management deals with controlling access to
second of network time counts the system must be				resources and even alerting the proper authorities
monitored continuously. The most cost effective way				when certain resources are accessed. In the same
to do this is to use an automated network				way that a network manager can be paged or
management tool.				emailed when a resource goes down, network
Network Management Standards				management systems can be used to send
The International Organization for Standards (ISO)				messages when certain files, servers or routers is
addresses the five major functional area of the				accesses. Intrusion detection systems such as
Network Management Model as performance				Symantec's Intruder Alert have this security
management, accounting management, configuration				management capability.
management, fault management and security				There are many products that support some or even
management.				all of these areas of network management. What
Performance Management				most network management systems have in common
Performance management is monitoring, assessing,				is their use of protocols such as Simple Network
and adjusting the available bandwidth and network				Management Protocols (SNMP), SNMPv3, and
resource usage in order make a network run more				Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP).
efficiently. Performance management is a very				There are a variety of Network Management tools
important part of the network management model				ranging from Intuit's Network Management Software
particularly to the business and/or organization that				to IBM's Tivoli, Fidelia's Helix to AdventNet. Maybe your
wants to streamline their network's performance.				network management solution does not include a
SolarWinds is a great tool for performance				system that increases vending machine prices as the
management.				heat rises, but you can definitely find what you need
Accounting Management				among these and other excellent tools on the market.
Accounting management monitors and assesses the				References:
usage of data and/or resources for the purpose of				Cisco. Network Management Basics.
billing. This aspect of the network management is by

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The ISO Network Management Model