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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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 ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

Short of catastrophic disaster, most networks today deliver between 99.99 percent and 99.9999 percent availability — from less than one hour of downtime a year to less than one minute of downtime a ...

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 ...

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Monitoring the right things in your network and making them visible in dashboards can make the difference between proactive and reactive responses to network problems. I recently wrote about using log ...

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