What does network management entail today?
Richard Ptak: Network management has to do with monitoring, tracking, controlling and reporting what’s happening on the network just to maintain network availability and performance. With the explosion of network-based business services, the actual functioning of a network has moved far beyond just simply worrying about availability and reliability to also managing the behavior of the applications and services that are built around that network. Richard Ptak How is the network manager’s job description changing as a result? Ptak: The manager has to be more aware of the business impact of the events that are taking place on the network so that he or she can intelligently allocate scarce resources and time to events that affect the operation. Network managers are — not going to be, they are — an integral part of the success of the business, and they have to think not only about maintaining the network and its services, but also about how the infrastructure, the devices and their operat
Network management has to do with monitoring, tracking, controlling and reporting what’s happening on the network just to maintain network availability and performance. With the explosion of network-based business services, the actual functioning of a network has moved far beyond just simply worrying about availability and reliability to also managing the behavior of the applications and services that are built around that network.
