Network Maintenance, Monitoring, and Control
Once you have your network up and running, you will probably want to monitor the traffic patterns on that network. Such monitoring can, for example, help you identify network segments that are under- or overloaded. With that information in hand, you may decide to reconfigure the network to balance the traffic more. Network monitoring can also help you find problems, including network devices that have gone down or are no longer accessible.
Network monitoring (often referred to as “network management”) can be performed with any of a wide range of software packages. In this chapter you will be introduced to a sampling of those packages and the capabilities they provide.
Note: True network management ...
Get Ethernet Networking for the Small Office and Professional Home Office now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
