Preface Preface Network Management Speaker was Kenneth Vastola , Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Main topics are network sensing and network management.
One approach would be to focus on unusual events . It was emphasized that the SNMP primitives allowed for no processing, only collection of data. Hence, network management is really network monitoring with human interaction required. Information, though, must come from layers below, so layers must be aware of one another. Issues with this approach are big data loads, waste of processing resources if narrowly focussed on agents, and scalability.