Network management involves maintaining, optimizing, configuring, and securing devices on a network to prevent disruption and ensure performance. This includes configuring settings, monitoring performance, diagnosing issues, and performing maintenance and repairs. Proper configuration and security are essential, and monitoring and diagnostics tools can help prevent downtime and reduce costs.
Devices on a network must be maintained, optimized, configured, and secured, in order to prevent network disruption and to perform their intended purposes. These tasks usually fall within the scope of network management, which controls processes and procedures to ensure that the network is always optimized for usage. From configuring routers and switches to securing firewalls, managing network devices is specifically about the operation and performance of devices on your network. Those involved use a variety of tools to ensure that network devices work properly. These process-related activities include configuring, monitoring, diagnosing, repairing, backing up and restoring data, with the goal of ensuring the performance and availability of network devices.
Configuring devices on the network is all about ensuring that device settings are optimized to work with network protocols and respond appropriately to security measures. Proper configurations are usually a manual process in managing network devices, such as changing settings on a router to work with network settings and adhering to network policies established by the network administrator. Configuring device security is also part of this process to ensure devices are accessible only to the appropriate resources and personnel.
Monitoring devices on your network is essential to spot potential problems before they negatively impact network performance or accessibility. This usually involves installing a variety of network device management or monitoring tools that will log the performance of the devices and provide data showing changes in that performance. Unusual changes in performance that are discovered can then be examined more closely to ascertain if there is a potential problem with the device.
Diagnostics, on the other hand, often involves the use of network device management tools designed to measure the operation of network devices to isolate deficiencies. Such tools are usually implemented to speed up the diagnostic process to help eliminate downtime in the event of a device malfunction. These tools can also help reduce costs by helping eliminate unnecessary replacement of devices that can be repaired due to malfunction, rather than misdiagnosis concluding device failure.
Repair in network device management is simply the process of performing maintenance on devices to ensure or restore proper functioning. Both proactive and reactive, maintenance is usually performed on a daily basis. As part of maintenance, this may include performing recovery measures in addition to backing up essential required device data.
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