Chapter 10. Maintenance, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting

The ability to maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot networks is important. You might design a switched LAN network that meets the requirements of the organization using the network today, but over time these requirements might exceed the current capabilities of your design. It is very important that you understand how to monitor and troubleshoot your network, ensuring that you can identify key issues in your network and resolve them quickly and efficiently.

To ensure the continuing operation and stability of your LAN switches, you must put in place mechanisms that allow for the fast restoration of configuration files and other files in the event of a switch failure or file corruption. Understanding ...

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