Effective Management of Local Area Networks
Functions, Instruments and People
Published on 1. September 1992
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-07-063636-1 (ISBN)
Description
This guide to building and managing LANs offers tested procedures for planning, designing, tuning and improving data, voice and hypermedia networks. It focuses on LAN-related network management instruments and techniques, such as: implementing and maintaining user-level services; detecting, isolating and solving LAN problems for popular technologies like Ethernet and token ring; sizing and modelling network needs; maintaining uninterrupted operations even in complex environments; developing advanced naming services and automated trouble-ticketing; designing effective security measures; implementing expert systems to simplify management chores; creating database support systems; and administering interconnected LANs, MANs and WANs.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-063636-1 (9780070636361)
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Content
Requirements for managing LANs; what we face today; centralization versus decentralization; classification of LANs; media, access control, topology, standards, application areas, communication forms, bandwidth; PC-LANs; LAN management functions; configuration management; fault management; standardization of LAN management; LAN management instrumentation; major categories of management products; dedicated measurement devices and analyzers; LAN design and planning; planning functions; evaluation criteria; human resources demand for LAN management; responsibilities; internal and external job contacts; LAN management directions; centralization with distributed instrumentation; integration of LAN, MAN and WAN management.