Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Fifth Edition

Hour 15. Monitoring and Remote Access

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Telnet

• Berkeley r* utilities

• SSH

• Remote control

• Network management

• SNMP

• RMON

Networks are for sharing resources remotely, so almost anything you do on a network could fall within the definition of remote access. Still, by tradition, a few TCP/IP utilities are classified as remote access utilities. These remote access utilities grew up around UNIX, but many have been ported to other operating systems. The purpose of these utilities is to give a remote user some of the capabilities a local user might have. Other tools have evolved through the years to help network administrators manage computers and devices from across the network. In this hour, you learn about ...