Enterprise IT shops are getting serious about winnowing the tools they use for network capacity planning, monitoring, event correlation, configuration management and more. Network executives are ...

The most accurate definition of a network management system that I have seen comes from a Cisco training document: “In some cases, it (network management) involves a solitary network consultant ...

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A big network is a complex system that generates a very large volume of data: log messages, network state data, device state data, device configurations, interface performance data, and application ...

Network management tools have come a long way from the early command-line products with arcane, text-based configuration files that kept everyone except the resident (typically Linux) guru in the dark ...

Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous on factory floors. Expectations are, for example, that Ethernet nodes in the process industries will nearly double over the next few years. The market research firm IMS ...

The elements you need for network management, and why it matters. Maybe you're wondering why we need network management best practices. To start, all complex systems will have many different ways that ...