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Network Management resources
- Rolph's Net Wreck - Network Management Resources[1]
- Cisco Packet Magazine for Systems Networking Professionals [2]
- Cisco Open Source NMS community [3]
- SimpleWeb - Network Management Resources [4]
- Web Based Management resources [5]
- Java Based Management resources [6]
- Element Management Systems (EMS) - webproforum tutorial [7] (also here)
- Webproforums tutorials from iec.org [8]
- Tutorials for Information System Security and Networking Professionals [9]
- Telecom Management for Next Generation E-Telco [10]
- IBM TCPIP Redbook - Chpt 15 Network Management [11]
- Cisco - Performance Management: Best Practices White Paper [12]
- Gartner's "Network Management - Keeping the Network Working for Business" (local copy)
- Atlanta Network and Systems Management Technical User Group - resources [13]
- Network monitoring tools directory [14]
- Peter Welcher's seminars [15]
- Introduction to network mngmt [16]
- Telecommunications mngmt - Architectures and Applications [17]
- Open-source management arrives [18]
- Open Management Consortium (OMC) [19]
- Members - Alterpoint, EmuSoftware, Nagios/Ayamon, openSIMS/Symbiot, Qlusters, Webmin. Zenoss, etc
- Monitor Tools - Network Monitoring resources [20]
- Network Monitoring Tools [21]
- Survey of Tools for Monitoring and Managing a Network (in greek) [22]
- Survey of Network Performance Monitoring Tools [23]
- Survey of Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Tools [24]
- Network Management - Open-Source Tool Options [25]
- List of network management systems [26]
- Cisco Routers and Switches - Tools, tips, and tricks you never knew [27]
- Internet Software Consortium (ISC) Toolmaker Resources [28]
- A Network Manager’s toolkit - Weathermap, Rancid, Netdisco, Cacti [29]
- Global Research NOC - Network Management, Measurement & Monitoring Tools [30]
- Alterpoint's NCCM news page [31]
- Insecure.org - top 6 Traffic Monitoring Tools [32]
- NLANR Network Performance and Measurement Tools [33]
- Inter-operator interfaces for ensuring end to end IP QoS - Measurement of Performance Metrics and Service Events [34]
- Differentiated Services – Network Configuration and Management - Network Control, Measurement and Charging for Service Models [35]
- Mechanisms for OAM on MPLS in large IP backbone networks [36]
- MPLS/VPLS Resource Center [37]
- Cisco Networkers - "Understanding Service Level and Traffic Management" [38]
- Stephen B. Morris - "Network Management, MIBs and MPLS" Chapter 3 - The Network Management Problem [H:\tpcd\my_portal_dev_mar02_07\my-wiki-pages\Telecom\OSS\morris_ network_management_mibs_mpls.chm (local copy)]
- Common Open Policy Service (COPS), defined in RFC 2748 [39]
- COPS is being used to exchange policy information between a policy server (Policy Decision Point or PDP) and its clients (Policy Enforcement Points or PEPs)
- COPS is being used by BCM (up to 3.7) and supported by Nortel Synoptics MIB to configure policies
- Various IT and systems/network management resources [40]
- MPLS Traffic Engineering &. Management Issues [41]
- Cisco's Active Network Abstraction approach for SLM [42]
- Linux SNMP Network Management Tools [43]
- Java Management Extension (JMX) tutorials
- List of tools (system/network monitoring and security) in use by DOE [47]
- Open Source Network Monitoring Tools [48]
- Dunigan's Network Performance links [49]
- Measurement in IP networks and standards
- Network Management,Measurement & Monitoring Tools - resources
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Fault Management
The ISO FCAPS Model Is Obsolete- FCAPS white paper [50]
- FCAPS, TMN and ITIL - key ingredients to effective IT management [51]
- Fault management [52]
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NetFlow/sFlow
NetFlow was developed by Cisco Systems in 1996, initially as a flow-switching engine. The Netflow engine decodes at wire speed all traffic and classifies it by flows, maintaining in a cache this information. Cisco later realized that the flow information accumulated in the cache by the NetFlow engine is useful for usage statistics. sFlow is a sampling technology embedded within switches and routers, for instance those from Foundry Networks. Cisco still sticks to its own flow-monitoring protocol (NetFlow) as it is the case with Juniper's J_Flow proprietary one. The sFlow specification was released in 2001 as a more scalable and flexible alternative to Cisco's NetFlow v5/v8. The sFlow engine continuously monitors and samples traffic flows at wire speed on all interfaces and ports without maintaining flow-state information. While packet sampling is usually performed at wire speed by a switching/routing ASICs, the "sFlow Agent" software process packages sampling-derived metrics into sFlow datagrams that are sent to an sFlow Collector.- NetFlow primer - first part of presentation local copy
- In-depth presentation explaining how to use IP-SLA and NetFlow for assessing QoS [53]
- Cisco CNS NetFlow Collection Engine User Guide [54]
- CNS NetFlow Collection Engine is managed through a proprietary XML interface (CNS/ XML)
- NetFlow Ecosystem Solutions [55]
- Accounting and Billing Solutions - Apogee Networks and Digiquant
- Mediation Solutions - Hewlett Packard and Narus
- NetFlow v9 Export Format [56]
- InMon Corporation's sFlow - Sampling method for Network Traffic Monitoring - RFC 3176 - overview
- Juniper Networks Solutions for Network Accounting [57]
- RFCs for flow-based monitoring and accounting [58]
- RFC 3954 - Cisco Systems NetFlow Services Export Version 9 [59]
- Netflow Export Formats [60] and [61]
- NetFlow resources [62]
- sFlow – Why You Should Use It And Like It [63]
- sFlow Overview [64]
- Network Performance Tools [65]
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NBAR
Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR) is the application-level classification engine in the Cisco IOS Software that can handle the dynamic assignement of UDP/TCP ports and allows invoking per-application differentiated QoS services- Vermeer.org - graphing Cisco Systems Network-based application recognition (NBAR) with MRTG [66]
- Network-Based Application Recognition Q&A [67]
- Network-Based Application Recognition [68]
- Cisco NBAR Protocol Discovery MIB - primer [69]
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Security
Network Devices, including the Cisco IOS-based ones, have vulnerabilities and are sensitive to different intrusion schemes as well as to configuration tampering.- Cisco Router forensics DDoS/worms update [70]
- The Future of Network Protection [71]
- Router Security, Just Add Peers [72]
- Center for Internet Security (CISecurity) - benchmarks & scoring tools [73]
- Protecting your IP network infrastructure [74]
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Correlation
For a network service provider is important to focus on the root-causes of network troubles, in order to minimize its costs. However, a primaru network incident *e.g. a switch going down) is likely to cause cascading troubles in other network devices. Through correlation, a Network Management System can filter the network-related incidents and associate causes with effects.- Event Correlation resources [75]
- HP Event Correlation Services (ECS v3) and all other manuals [76]
- HPOV Event Correlation Description Language (ECDL) [77]
- Event correlation technologies page [78]
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JUNOScript
Juniper Networks: JUNOScript is an XML-based Network Management API for managing devices. XML-based JUNOScript API provides a standard integration layer between management applications and the platforms that they manage. It allows access to both operational and configuration data using a simple RPC mechanism. Sessions can be established using a variety of connection-oriented access methods. The JUNOScript API is an alternative to the existing SNMP and CLI scripting methods. JUNOScript is similar to the Netconf XML-based management protocol defibed by RFC 4741- JUNOScript API Software [79]
- JUNOScript Perl API and doc
- JUNOS XML and Netconf Netconf XML APIs for the JUNOS Software [80]
- XML-based Network Management Tools BOF [81]
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UPS management
- Network UPS Tools (NUT) project [82] - tools and compatibility
- Powerware XUPS-MIB [83]
- RFC 1628 UPS-MIB [84]
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