Effective management of local area networks : functions, instruments, and people
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Effective management of local area networks : functions, instruments, and people
McGraw-Hill, c1992
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Description
This guide to building and managing LANs offers tested procedures for planning, designing, tuning and improving data, voice and hypermedia networks. It focuses on LAN-related network management instruments and techniques, such as: implementing and maintaining user-level services; detecting, isolating and solving LAN problems for popular technologies like Ethernet and token ring; sizing and modelling network needs; maintaining uninterrupted operations even in complex environments; developing advanced naming services and automated trouble-ticketing; designing effective security measures; implementing expert systems to simplify management chores; creating database support systems; and administering interconnected LANs, MANs and WANs.
Table of Contents
- Requirements for managing LANs
- what we face today
- centralization versus decentralization
- classification of LANs
- media, access control, topology, standards, application areas, communication forms, bandwidth
- PC-LANs
- LAN management functions
- configuration management
- fault management
- standardization of LAN management
- LAN management instrumentation
- major categories of management products
- dedicated measurement devices and analyzers
- LAN design and planning
- planning functions
- evaluation criteria
- human resources demand for LAN management
- responsibilities
- internal and external job contacts
- LAN management directions
- centralization with distributed instrumentation
- integration of LAN, MAN and WAN management.
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