Network Management Fundamentals

Chapter 5. Management Functions and Reference Models: Getting Organized

This chapter picks up right where we left off in our discussion of management dimensions in the previous chapter. Specifically, it takes an in-depth look at the function dimension of network management, a big topic that deserves its own chapter. This concerns the range of functionality that management applications and operational support systems need to cover. We discuss these functions along the lines of several management reference models, which do a great job of organizing these functions. Reference models are conceptual frameworks, introduced for the purpose of organizing in a systemic manner the different functions of a system or a technology—network management in this ...