Cisco Networks: Engineers' Handbook of Routing, Switching, and Security with IOS, NX-OS, and ASA

© Chris Carthern and William Wilson and Noel Rivera 2021

C. Carthern et al.Cisco Networkshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6672-4_18

18. Effective Network Management

Chris Carthern¹  , William Wilson² and Noel Rivera³

(1)

Bangkok, Krung Thep, Thailand

(2)

FPO, AP, USA

(3)

APO, AE, USA

 

Chapter 10 introduced the management plane. That chapter focused on the management plane and supporting commands on the router itself. This chapter looks more at enterprise network management. This includes aggregation of log and SNMP data into central tools that are used to monitor and manage the infrastructure.

Sample Network

The example in this chapter uses a consistent network. The network includes a couple of Windows servers and desktops for generating traffic, a few ...