Section 1: introduction; who should read this book?; basic infrastructure pre-requisites; general introduction to the Simple Network Management Protocol and Management Information Bases; shortcomings. Section 2: introduction to using MIB data; measuring infrastructure availability - the real numbers; capacity planning versus fault analysis; performance analysis versus fault analysis; analyzing MIB data to enhance fault detection; adding fault prediction analysis; configuring your management platform; centralized versus distributed data collection. Section 3: the MIBs - what to collect and how to interpret it - FDDI, ATM, T1, T3, Ethernet, Token Ring, routing protocols, cable modems, NORTEL specific - cable modems, switches, routers, routing protocols, CISCO specific - routers , remote source route bridging, VLAN - switches cable modems, Motorola specific - cable modems; w arnings and caveats; future technologies.
