Network Management Fundamentals

How This Book Is Organized

This book is intended to be read cover to cover because later chapters build on concepts and principles that earlier chapters introduce. Nevertheless, many chapters are relatively self-contained, which should make it fairly easy to move between chapters.

The chapters of this book are grouped into four parts:

• Part I, “Network Management: An Overview,” provides an overview of what network management is about and why it is relevant. It also conveys an informal understanding of the functions, tools, and activities that are associated with it. Part I consists of three chapters:

  Chapter 1, “Setting the Stage,” provides an informal overview of what network management is all about, from both a business and technical perspective. ...