Course Outline

Network Management

Spring 2015

Bahador Bakhshi

CE & IT Department, Amirkabir University of Technology

What This Course Is

You all know what network management is Configure and monitor computer networks So, what are you doing here?

This course: A systematic approach to network management Organize your mind about network management

Who is who? What is what? Why & How?

This is an engineering course You will learn practical technologies & standards

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What This Course Is Not

A pure scientific/math/theory course If you love complicated theories, proof,

formulations, …, unfortunately, this course is going to be boring for you

Specific network management system class While we will use NM tools in HWs; however, we

don’t focus on specific NM system

Hard to understand concepts Almost all technologies are easy to learn

But, really hard to implement in real network!!

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Course Advantages

We study and understand technologies that are used in real networks We don’t discuss about pure abstract problems

An engineering course Use these technologies in industry

Better resume: SNMPv1&2&3, FCAPS, eToM, … More job opportunities (more money )

(Usually) Technologies are easier than sciences High course grade if you want

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Course Possible Disadvantages

We study technologies Technologies have limited life time Our knowledge will expire

Some programming languages & technologies may not be used 10 years later

However, the concepts of NM have very long life time

Network management uses many technologies We need to learn many things Too many slides & book chapters

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What We Will Learn

Main question: How are large networks (Service provider, Big Enterprise, Telecos) are managed?

To answer this question, we need the answer of Q1) What is the network management? Q2) What is its architecture?

Agents, Protocols, NMS, Organization Q3) What are common NM protocols? Q4) Which functions are performed in NMS? Q5) Which parts of an agent is composed of? Q6) Which processes are performed in network

manager organization?

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Tentative Syllabus Fundamental of network management

Introduction: What, Why, Who, and Challenges (Q1) Architecture & Dimensions (Q2)

Protocols (Q3) Syslog, SNMP, IPFIX, Netconf, …

Functions (Q4) FCAPS

SNMP v1&v2&v3 (Q3 & Q5)

NGN Management (Q6) eToM, NGOSS, OSS & BSS

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Course Policies

Textbook & References Five books Not whole books , some chapters per topic

For exams Course slides & the reference chapters

Per topic, there is a list of other references Same courses in other universities These are optional reading

15% penalty per day for late submission

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Course Policies (cont’d)

Course homepage Course slides, announcements, grades, HWs, … ceit.aut.ac.ir/~bakhshis/NM

Books & references are on CE fileserver \\fileserver\common\Bakhshi\Network Management

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Course Policies: Grading

3 or 4 Homework (~ 30%) Most are practical Need to install & run & report NM SW

Midterm (~ 35%)

Final (~ 35%)

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