Avoiding Network Problems
According to a 1998 survey by the MERIT Project, sponsored by Computer Associates, networking was identified as the area most in need of management automation to reduce outages. Network downtime can be prevented by watching for trends in performance that could lead to overloads, and by providing redundancy, so that single network component failures are not noticed by users.
Network outages are often due to network bandwidth problems. By using tools such as NetMetrix and PerfView, increases in network usage can be identified and addressed before they become problems. Users can reduce network bandwidth requirements by using tools such as compress on files before transferring them over the network. The previous section ...
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