Course Outline Network Management Bahador Bakhshi CE & IT Department, Amirkabir University of Technology

What This Course Is You all know what network management is  Configure and monitor computer networks So, what are you doing here? This course: A systematic approach to network management Organize your mind about network management Who is who? What is what? Why & How? This is an engineering course You will learn practical technologies & standards

What This Course Is Not A pure scientific/math/theory course If you love complicated theories, proof, formulations, …, unfortunately, this course is going to be boring for you  Specific network management system class While we will use NM tools in HWs & project; however, we don’t focus on specific NM system Hard to understand concepts Almost all technologies are easy to learn But, really hard to implement in real network!!

Course Advantages We study and understand technologies that are used in real networks We don’t discuss about pure abstract problems An engineering course Use these technologies in industry Better resume: SNMPv1&2&3, FCAPS, eToM, … More job opportunities (more money ) (Usually) Technologies are easier than sciences High course grade if you want 

Course Possible Disadvantages We study technologies Technologies have limited life time Our knowledge will expire Some programming languages & technologies may not be used 10 years later However, the concepts of NM have very long life time Network management uses many technologies We need to learn many things

What We Will Learn Main question: How are large networks (Service provider, Big Enterprise, Telecos) are managed? To answer this question, we need the answer of Q1) What is the network management? Q2) What is its architecture? Q3) What does a network management system do? Q4) Which technologies, protocols, and algorithms are commonly used? Q5) What happen to NM as networking technologies are evolved?

Tentative Syllabus Fundamental of network management Applications (Q3) Introduction: What, Why, Who, Challenges (Q1) Architecture & Protocols (Q2) Applications (Q3) FCAPS Implementations (Q4) SNMPv1&2&3 Theories & Algorithms NGN Management (Q5) eToM, OSS & BSS

Course Policies Textbook & References For exams Five books Not whole books , some chapters per topic For exams Course slides & the reference chapters Per topic, there is a list of other references Same courses in other universities These are optional reading

Course Policies Course homepage Course slides, announcements, grades, HWs ceit.aut.ac.ir/~bakhshis/NM Books & references are on CE fileserver \\fileserver\common\Bakhshi\Network Management Grading Midterm + Final + HW + Project