Advanced Network Management

Instructor:

Chadi Assi, Room EV7.635

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.

Douglas R. Mauro and Kevin J. Schmidt, “SNMP Essential” O'Reilly & Associates, ISBN: 0-596-00020-0

(Available online) http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/snmp/

Prerequisites: ELEC 6861 or equivalent

Marking Scheme:

Midterm1 35%
Midterm2 35%

Project                         25%

Homeworks 5%

Class Notes 

- Course Outline

- Week 1: (ppt)  (Introduction + Outline)

- Week 2: (ppt)  (Computer Networks and the Internet)

(ppt) (Application layer)

- Week 3: (ppt) (Transport layer)

- Week 4: (ppt) (NM concepts: models and languages)

- Week 5: (ppt) (SNMPv1)

- Week 6: (ppt) (SNMPv1 & SNMPv2)

- Week 7: (ppt) (SNMPv3)

- Week 8: no class / midterm break

- Week 9: midterm exam (sample midterm) (grades)

- Week 10: access control, RMON

- Week 11: Fault management (ppt) (pdf1)(pdf2)

ATM network management (ppt)

- Week 12: no class / Good Friday

- Week 13: (ppt) OSI, TMN, etc

- Week 14: midterm exam (grades)

Assignments 

- Assignment 1 (solution)(due Friday Feb 8^th)

- Assignment 2 (solution) (due Friday Feb 29^th)

- Assignment 3

Project related material

MIB Compilers

A Printer MIB (example)

MG Soft MIB Compiler

SMASH MIB Compiler

MIB Module Validation:

Simple Web MIB Validation Tool

ASN.1 Homepage

ASN.1 web site: contains tutorial information, links to software tools, ASN.1-based applications and products, and standards information..

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://snmp.adventnet.com/index.html (SNMP API: a free edition that is very useful for developing your project)

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)