Application status and development trend of network management system

Over the past few years, the responsibilities of corporate IT executives have changed dramatically. On the one hand, the size and complexity of the corporate network multiplied, more and more new businesses are being ported to the network environment, while business units and external customers in the company are increasingly reliant on the network for day-to-day business processing and communication, and any disruption to the network or services or even performance degradation can have a serious impact on the business. At the same time, in order to adapt to the severe competition of market economy, controlling it investment and operating cost has become a subject for the IT department managers to consider.

Application Status of network management system

In order to ensure the normal operation of the business, almost all the large and medium-sized enterprises in China have recognized the importance of building a network management system, and most enterprises have been based on their current management needs to invest in the procurement of the corresponding network management software, hoping to improve IT management staff efficiency, Improve the availability and service levels of enterprise networks and business systems. Now the most common network management software used in domestic enterprise environment includes network topology management software, fault collection and alarm management software and network performance management software.

However, looking at the current domestic enterprise Environment Network management system usage and application level, the overall situation is not very satisfactory, the more prominent deficiencies have the following points:

There is a general lack of planning for the long-term goal of network management system construction. Enterprises often according to the use of different periods of time to purchase a number of independent management tools or software systems, equipment, network, fault, performance or application system management. This method is easy to cause the management system in the management of the data between the lack of integration, can not carry out the whole system Management information integrated processing, can not find the root cause of the failure.

Pay attention to the network management software/hardware procurement, despise management center managers operating training. Lack of training operators are often unable to fully customize the network management software and reasonable customer, so that the system can not be the greatest degree of administrative functions close to the specific management needs of each enterprise, resulting in a number of network management system functions can not play a reasonable effect, can not fully improve the efficiency of managers.

Pay attention to monitoring and management of network failures and network performance indicators, despise the enterprise's core business service level of all-round monitoring. This can easily lead to management omissions, such as security attacks, improper parameters configuration, Service end-to-end SLA (Service level agreement, services levels contract) did not meet the requirements and other reasons that the enterprise's core business is not efficient and stable operation.

New technology of network management

Network technology as one of the most rapid development in recent years, in the network management also has a number of outstanding technical progress, this also first for everyone to do a simple introduction.

The trend of intelligent management of network equipment

Now the mainstream network equipment vendors to produce network equipment, generally provides a device embedded intelligent management agent. These management agents can monitor the network equipment itself, realize the management functions including equipment parameter configuration verification, security attack measurement and early warning, different level traffic/flow statistics and end-to-end measurement of business performance.

The presence of the embedded intelligent management agent has largely replaced the external network performance monitoring probe (Probe), which is often required to be purchased in the original NMS, and the administrator has no need to worry because the external probes will be installed with additional network ports or change the topology of the network. These will reduce the overall investment of the network management system, especially for some large enterprises the effect is particularly significant.

At the same time, the built-in intelligent management agent can also turn each network device into a distributed management information collection workstation, and can collect the management information to carry on the preliminary summary and the analysis, then only then sends the summary statistic data to the network Management Server, thus may reduce to the network Management Server processing ability demand and the network management software complexity , thus further reducing the overall investment of network management system.