Network Management Approaches

Overview

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Take your network management skills to the next level with this comprehensive course designed for both beginners and experienced professionals. Through engaging lessons, you’ll explore the five core aspects of effective network management: fault detection and resolution, configuration deployment, performance monitoring, security enforcement, and accurate accounting. What distinguishes this course is its balanced coverage of both foundational and advanced tools—ranging from the widely used SNMP protocol and Cisco’s controller-based solutions to the powerful IOS CLI and modern APIs. You’ll learn how to leverage these technologies to streamline network operations, troubleshoot efficiently, and enhance security. By the end of the course, you’ll be fully prepared to manage, optimize, and secure network environments using the latest industry practices and solutions.

Syllabus

Simple Device Management Protocol

If an organization has hundreds of routers, switches, firewalls, and so on, inspecting the functionality of the devices one-by-one every day is a laborious and impossible task. To automate and ease this management process, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used. In this topic, you will learn the fundamentals of SNMP and the importance it plays in network management.

Controller-Based Network Management

Controller-based network management is an approach to managing and controlling network devices using a centralized controller or management system. In this topic, you will learn about the controller-based network management approach and Cisco solutions for controller-based network management.

Management via Command Line

The CLI is an alternative to the GUI, a text-based interface used for interacting with devices. This topic further explores Cisco IOS CLI and describes the advantages that CLI offers in network management and operations.

Modern Network Management: API

An application programming interface (API) is a set of functions and protocols that allow software applications to communicate and interact with each other. API defines a framework for how software components should interact and provides a way for developers to access the data and services of different systems. Cisco has a wide range of API offerings for its management solutions. This topic describes the REST API architecture and how it works.