Management Tools and Techniques Classification of Management Tools

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Management Tools and TechniquesClassification of
Management Tools
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Classification of Management Tools
Chapter 11
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Learning Objectives

• Criteria for the Classification of Management
  Tools
• A General Classification Scheme
• Forms of Integration
• Chapter Summary

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Criteria for the Classification of Management
Tools

• Management Tools?
• Variation of management tools
• Classes of resources that needs administration
  falls within the management disciplines of
  networks, systems, and application management
• Tools that deals with the characteristics of
  resources such as electrical properties of the
  line or configuration parameters of software
• Tools that deals with IT infrastructures of
  varying size and complexity (small to corporate
  networks)
• Tools that satisfy different requirements from
  modifying simple parameters to distributing and
  installing software packages in a heterogeneous
  environment
• Specially designed tools for new complex
  technologies (VLANs)
• Versions of management tools

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Criteria for the Classification of Management
Tools

• Versions of management tools
• Test equipment used for testing the
  characteristics of lines and attachment
  components (1st type of management tool)
• Protocol analyzer support the diagnosis of
  problems in different protocol layers
• Tools Internet tools (ping, traceroute, dig)
• Management platforms tools management-specific
  application for routine environment
• Enterprise management implement interfaces for
  different management architectures or tools
• Trouble ticket systems (TTS) to support and
  monitor the handling of problem situations and
  faults
• Documentation systems (DS) supply management
  information about physical infrastructure,
  geographical arrangement of components, or
  responsibilities, and relevant data
• Criteria for the Classification of Management
  Tools

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Criteria for the Classification of Management
Tools

• Several criteria used to classify management
  tools
• Structure and components of a tool Pure software
  only or special hardware and software to run on
  it. (No pure hardware solutions)
• Autonomy of a tool autonomous tool or
  executable only in interaction with other tools,
  component, or a management platform
  (Functionality in standard, and proprietary
  interfaces tools)
• Local or distributed implementation software run
  either locally on a system or distributed among
  different systems
• Area of functionality tools perform one or more
  management tasks according to a particular
  functional area.
• General Classification Scheme
• Autonomous classes of tools
• Stand-alone tools (Testing devices, Protocol
  analyzers, Internet tools)
• Platforms tools (executed autonomously, but not
  useful functionality)
• Integrating tools (to integrate other tools
  compile or reprocess results of other tools)
• Management tools as development tools

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Forms of Integration

• Four forms of integrations
• User interface integration
• Proxy-or gateway-based integration
• Data integration
• Total integration
• User interface (GUI)
• Respective information bases in this tools are
  unaffected by the integration
• Proxy-or Gateway-Based Integration
• Neither manager nor agent need modification, both
  tools work on their original data model
• Data Integration
• All affected tools operate on the same, mostly
  distributed, information base
• Total integration tools share same user
  interface, and use the same management
  infrastructure

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Summary
Key Terms

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• All covered chapters

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