94.588           Communications Network Management          Winter 2002/2003
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Week by Week Outline                                                            3 Hours Per Week

1)  Network Management Areas, Basic Management Architecture, The
    communication environment. The Internet, LANs and WANs, Client
    server architecture. Basic tools such as PING and Traceroute,

2)  Description of Management Information, ASN.1.  Network
     Management Protocol architectures. Intro to SNMP and CMIP.
    The structure of management information in SNMP, MIB-II.

3)  SNMP PDUs and operations, BER the basic encoding rules.
     Data Modelling in SNMP, tables.

4)  Protocol analyzers. Network performance monitoring,
     MIB variables, The Rmon MIB, Fault management.

5)  Security in network management. SNMPv2/v3 and security,
     Hierarchical and distributed management

6)  Proxies, extensible agents , Agent-X/DPI The SNMP distributed protocol interface

7)  OSI network management and CMIP/CMIS.
     Object Oriented management databases, modelling and the GDMO.

8)  OSI Management services and management functions.  ACSE and ROSE

9)  Filtering, scoping, management by exception and event management

10) Internet/OSI management comparisons, coexistence. TMN and OSI,
       IN and TINA-C

11) DCE, RPC,CORBA and network management. RMI
      Emerging management technologies, WEB-based management,

12) Java, JMAPI, mobile code and mobile agents. JINI
       Platform trends, The big players, Openview, Netview

13) AI and expert systems in management. Intelligent agents
       Policy Based Management