When we made the paradigm shift from the glass house to client/server architectures, the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the new model presented major management challenges. Management ...

Several recent announcements have given me cause to think about open standards and interoperability. Last month Microsoft and Novell announced they would work together on Web services-based management ...

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Automated network monitoring involves scanning for device component failures and examining traffic patterns. Learn how to lighten the load of your network management responsibilities. Network device ...

A big network is a complex system that generates a very large volume of data: log messages, network state data, device state data, device configurations, interface performance data, and application ...