Management of Networks and Services

Contents

• Network and capacity planning. Network management principles and architectures.
• Management framework INMF/SNMP: data model, architecture and management entities, communication paradigms, management objects and related standards. Services management.
• Additional technologies: Web services, mobile management agents, management by delegation, management policies. Current best practices.

Learning Outcomes

• to plan network design and resources provisioning according to specific requirements and constrains;
• to demonstrate basic knowledge on important standards and technologies;
• to identify the main network management tasks, including the use of public domain and proprietary management tools;
• to select and apply appropriate technologies for accomplishing those tasks, identifying costs and limitations in different implementation scenarios;
• to analyse and discuss the most relevant approaches inherent to management architectures and mechanisms, resulting from on-going research.

Bibliography

• Network Management, MIBs and MPLS: Principles, Design and Impl., S. Morris, Addison Wesley, 2003;
• SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 and RMON 1 and 2, William Stallings, Addison-Wesley, 1998;
• Network Services Magement Framework, Bruno Dias, PhD Thesis, Universidade do Minho, 2004;
• Network Management An introduction to principles and practice, M. Subramanian, Addison Wesley, 1999.