Advanced Network Management

 

 

Instructor:

Chadi Assi, Room CB-410-13

Voice: 848 2424 x 5799
email: assi@ciise.concordia.ca

 

Text Book:

Mani Subramanian  “Network Management: Principles and Practice”, Addison Wesley ISBN: 0-201-35742-9

 

 

References:

Stallings, William.  "SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 and RMON 1 and 2: The Practical Guide to Network Management Standards” 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley.

Leinwand, A. and Fang K., "Network Management: A Practical Perspective" Addison Wesley.

 

Prerequisites: ELEC 6861 or equivalent

Marking Scheme:

Midterm                        20%
Project                          30%

Final Exam                    50%

 

           - Class Notes 

 

- Lecture 1.0.ppt   (Introduction + Outline)

- Lecture 1.1.ppt   (Computer Networks and the Internet)

- Lecture 2.ppt   (Application Layer)

- Lecture 3-1.ppt   (Transport Layer)

- Lecture 3-2.ppt   (Network Layer)

- Lecture 4.ppt   (Network Management: Models and Languages)

- Lecture 5.ppt   (SNMP Network Management)

- Lecture 6.ppt   (SNMPv1 + SNMPv2)

- Tutorial on Network Management (download PDF)

- Lecture 7.ppt   (SNMPv3)

- Lecture 8.ppt   (RMON)

- Lecture 9.ppt   (Network Fault Management)

         Additional Material (1, 2, 3, 4)


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Midterm Grades
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Lecture 10.ppt  (Telecommunication Management Network and OSI)

         Additional Material (TMN1, TMN2, OSI)


-- Last year’s final exam 

 

 


 

- (A Printer MIB, example)

 

MIB Compilers

 

MG Soft MIB Compiler

 

SMASH MIB Compiler

 

MIB Module Validation: Simple Web MIB Validation Tool

 

 

ASN.1 Homepage

http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html (tutorial, free software, etc.)

 

Book Chapter on ASN.1 from John Larmouth's book "Understanding OSI"

 

 

Network Management references and tools:

 

http://www.loriotpro.com/index.php (check trial version)

 

http://www.simpleweb.org/: links and information on network management, including software, RFCs and tutorials.

 

http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/: various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol

 

http://www.caida.org/tools/: tools and software as well as taxonomy of available research and visualization tools.

 

http://www.topology.org/comms/netmon.html: Network monitoring

 

http://www.simple-times.org/: an openly available publication devoted to the promotion of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

 

http://joe.lindsay.net/webbased.html: The Web Based Management Page

 

http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html: Linux SNMP Network Management Tools

 

 

Useful RFCs

       RFC 1155: SMI
       RFC 1213: MIB-II
       RFC 1157: SNMP Version 1
       RFC 1215: SNMP v1 Traps
       RFC 1901: Introduction to Community-based SNMPv2
       RFC 2578: Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2)
       RFC 2579: Textual Conventions for SMIv2
       RFC 2580: Conformance Statements for SMIv2
       RFC 3416: Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
       RFC 3417: Transport Mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
       RFC 3418: Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
       RFC 1908: Coexistence between Version 1 and Version 2 of SNMP
       RFC 1909: An Administrative Infrastructure for SNMPv2
       RFC 3410: Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet Standard Management Framework
       RFC 3411: An Architecture for Describing SNMP Management Frameworks
       RFC 3412: Message Processing and Dispatching for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
       RFC 3413: SNMP Applications
       RFC 3414: User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv3)
       RFC 3415: View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
       RFC 3584: Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework
       RFC 2819: Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base
       RFC 2021: Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 using SMIv2
       RFC 3395: Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Reference Extensions
       RFC 1513: Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB
       RFC 2613: Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switched Networks Version 1.0
       RFC 3600: Internet Official Protocol Standards (November 2003)