Network Management Tools
Network Management and Network Monitoring are essential to ensure maximum uptime on your network. The longer you monitor your network, the more network data you can gather, allowing more effective settings for thresholds and alerts. Capacity planning requires network reports over as long a period as possible.
Network Baseline
To better manage your network, it is important for you to document your network and create a baseline of your network behavior. Network documentation and baseline is especially critical when troubleshooting a network and a troubleshooter need to use the information to efficiently diagnose and correct network problems. G ood network documentation will make you a more effective troubleshooter by saving you time and effort . An well established network documentation policy will also prevent you from performing the time - consuming and error-prone process of creating a network configuration from scratch every time when you need the information.
Network Performance Management
 | Network performance management is for network capacity planning, providing usage based billing, understanding Quality of Service (QOS) of traffic, providing reports to customers/users to fulfill Service level Agreement (SLA), and for network admin to obtain additional information about the network.. |
| An ideal performance management solution must be platform independent and extensible as well as able to provide integrated, total network coverage. The ideal solution must allow network admin to monitor ongoing physical network performance, analyze its data to correlate end-to-end service performance, and finally, to take action based on a complete understanding of network behaviour. Complete performance management must drill down through each layer of network technology. With an integrated view of deployed technology, network admin can recognise the impact of performance management on their users. |