Understanding the Network: A Practical Guide to Internetworking

Network Analysis and Performance Tuning

Using a management and monitoring system on your network is the best way to identify network faults and performance issues. These systems, however, are not really designed to resolve problems after they are identified. In addition, their capability to detect performance-related issues is really limited by your own ability to identify performance issues. This is to say, they are data collection systems, not fault and performance problem-resolution systems. The network administrator and/or network operations staff performs this function. You can have all the network management data in the world, but if you cannot understand the information that is being collected in relation to how your network functions, ...