Course Number: 218
Length: 3 Days
Network Management and Operations Training
Network Management and Operations Training, Network Management refers to the activities, methods, procedures, and tools that pertain to the operation, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) of networked systems. In network management, functions such as security, monitoring, control, allocation, deployment, coordination and planning are executed. Network management is governed by a large number of protocols that exist for its support, including SNMP, CMIP, WBEM, Common Information Model, Java Management Extensions, Transaction Language 1 (TL-1), and Netconf.
Network management products can help enterprises and service providers to:
- Increase business and network resources
- Save network administrators time
- Improve business productivity
- Increase user satisfaction
This course introduces the fundamentals of network management and operations It details the technology fundamentals of network OAM&P and network management architecture and protocols such as SNMP, WBEM and others. It explains what’s behind this family of popular networking standards and procedures.
Who Should Attend
This overview course is primarily intended for any audience interested in a conceptual understanding of the architecture, attributes, protocols and features of the network management and OAM&P.
Objectives
Upon completing this course, the attendees will be able to:
- Specify the motivation for network management and operation
- Sketch network management architecture, protocols and components
- Examine OAM&P functions and procedures
- List all the FCAPS functions (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security)
- List key concepts and operations of SNMP and WBEM
- Devise a strategy for deploying network management
- Examine different network management protocols and standards
- Examine the key differences between TL-1, SNMPv1, 2 and 3 technologies, WBEM, XML, CORBA, JMX etc.
- Discuss key features of network management security as Authentication, Privacy Services and Access Control
Outline
Network Management Concepts and Tools
- Business Service Assurance
- Business Service Management
- Enhancing business communications and collaboration with data, voice, and video
- Service Level Management
- Systems Management
- Monitoring your entire network infrastructure
- Visualize, monitor and pro-actively manage your network
- Network Management and Operations
- Overview of Network Management Systems (NMS)
- Overview of Operations Support Systems (OSS)
- Overview of Network Management Architecture and Protocols
- Network Management Fundamentals
- Network Management Requirements
- Network Management Systems
- Network Monitoring Architecture
- Secure distributed network management system
Network Management Functions
- Network administrator
- Network monitoring
- Network performance management
- Performance Assurance
- Network traffic measurement
- Overview of Network Management Function: FCAPS
- Fault management
- Configuration management
- Accounting management
- Performance management
- Security management
- Operation
- Keeping the network (and the services that the network provides) up and running
- Monitoring the network to spot problems
- Administration
- Keeping track of resources in the network
- Network Housekeeping
- Maintenance
- Performing repairs and upgrades
- Adjusting device configuration parameters
- Provisioning
- Configuring resources in the network
- Controlling, planning, allocating, deploying, coordinating, and monitoring the resources of a network
- Network planning
- Cryptographic key distribution authorization
Large Enterprise and Service Providers Networks
- Managing Enterprise Networks
- Manageability
- Operating and Managing Large Networks
- Layers 2, 3, and 2.5 Ports and Interfaces
- Overview of Network Management Layers
- Why Use Network Management?
- Networking Components
- Network Management Strategies
- Configuration Client/Server Components.
- Configuration: Infrastructure Components
- Overview of Network Management Architecture and Protocols
- SNMP: The De Facto Network Management Standard
Network Management Access Methods
- SNMP
- Command Line Interfaces (CLIs)
- Custom XML
- CMIP
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
- Transaction Language 1 (TL-1)
- CORBA
- netconf
- Java Management Extensions (JMX)
- What is SNMP?
- Agent and Manager
- MIBs
- RMON and RMON2
- Desktop Managements
- Web-based Managements
- Network Management Initiatives
- RFC 1213 “Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based Internets: MIB-II.”
- Secure SNMPv3
- Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
- ASN.1 Basic Encoding Rules (BER)
- Information Management Initiatives
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Protocols
- Common Information Model (CIM)
- CIM-XML
- WS-Management
- WBEM Discovery
- Service Location Protocol (SLP)
- WBEM Query Languages
- CIM Query Language (CQL)
SNMP Basics
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- SNMP Network Management Concepts
- SNMPv1
- SNMP Management Information
- Structure of Management Information
- Data Types
- Structure of Management Information (SMI)
- Textual Conversions
- SNMPv1 Operations
- Upper Level Protocols
- Standard MIBs
- Basic Concepts
- Ethernet Interface MIB
- MIB-II Protocol Specification
- Transport-Level Support
- System Group
- Interfaces Group
- IP Groups
- ICMP Group
- TCP Group
- UDP Group
- Transmission Group
- SNMP Group
- Extensions to MIB-II
- Remote Network Monitoring (RMON)
- The SNMP Agent
- The SNMP Manager
- The MIB
- SNMP Protocol Data Units (PDU)
The Network Management Problem
- Network Management Systems (NMS)
- Elements of NMS Development
- NMS Development.
- Solving the Network Management Problem
- NMS Structure. Smarter MIBs. Policy-based Network Management (PBNM)
- What Is a Policy?
- Pushing Intelligence into the Network
- Network Management Policies
- The Common Open Policy Service Protocol (COPS)
- Network Processors
- Directory-Enabled Networking (DEN)
- The Information Model
SNMPv3 and Network Management
- SNMPv3 Structure.
- SNMPv3 Engine
- SNMPv3 Applications
- SNMPv3 Message Formats
- SNMPv3 Security and View-Based Access Control
- SNMPv3 Message Exchanges
- SNMPv3 Security
- A Closer Look at a MIB
- Managed Objects
Network Management Systems (NMS)
- HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM)
- Mediation
- Network Discovery and Mapping
- NNM Discovery and Mapping
- Monitoring. Notification Processing
- Workflows and Business Processes
- Enterprise Workflows and Business Processes
- Applications of NMS
- Example of Network Management Software Components
- Fault Server
- Topology Update
- Configuration Server
- Mediation. Aggregation
- Discovery
- Monitoring
- NE Software Distribution
- NE Configuration Database Backup and Restore
- NMS Database Backup, Restore, and Upgrade
Case Study: MPLS Network Management
- Network management MIBs and MPLS
- Definitions of Managed Objects
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) FEC-to-NHLFE (FTN) Management Information Base
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Management Overview
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switch Router (LSR) Management Information Base