Network Management

The following is from Network Implementation Design Analysis – Burke, 2004, p 45

Checklist for network requirements:

Geographical Distribution

  1. Office
    1. Subnets
    2. LAN
  2. Department (many offices)
    1. Subnets
    2. LAN
  3. Division (many departments)
    1. LAN
    2. WAN
  4. Organization (many divisions)
    1. Local LAN/WAN
    2. National WAN
    3. Global WAN
Subnets
  1. How many
    1. bridges/switches
    2. routers
  2. Ethernet
    1. cabling
    2. speed
    3. IP addresses needed
    4. DHCP
  3. Wireless
    1. number of wireless hubs
    2. authentication

LAN

  1. How many of them
  2. Domain names
  3. DNS configuration
  4. IP address space
  5. Subnets / how many, subnet masks
  6. switched Ethernet v routers
  7. Other LAN technologies

WAN

  1. How sites connect
  2. PSTN, X.25, SONET, ATM, Frame Relay, Carrier Ethernet, etc

Bandwidth requirements

  1. Video needs
  2. Audio needs
  3. Data needs

Service Level Agreements

  1. bandwidth constantly available
  2. peak bandwidth
  3. bandwidth available on demand
  4. burst capacity

Security

  1. firewall configuration
  2. proxy servers
  3. authentication issues
  4. network intrusion detection
  5. virus/malware monitoring


Apply it to:

 
Table 3.2 from Burke, Network Management, 2004: this describes some of the data we want:

Reliability:
Faults
Availability:    MTBF

Performance (response time)
Throughput
Data packet throughput
Voice ordered packet throughput
Video bandwidth, ...
Utilization
Resource use
Policies

Redundancy

User support

Note that this table does NOT have any per-service entries!
Some software services: