Local Area Networks (LAN) White Papers

The Next Generation of Network Management

• Tags:
• local area networks (lan),
• monitoring,
• strategic,
• windows nt

Overview Today's enterprise networks, running mission-critical business applications and connecting far-flung operations, are recognized as key strategic assets by their organizations. As a result they receive increasing financial resources and accompanying high-level executive attention. LAN advances such as high-speed technologies and the adoption of switching architectures, and WAN advances such as the growth of remote office, mobile workforce, and Internet connectivity, have profoundly changed the scope of this strategic asset and the requirements for its management. Unfortunately, centralized network management applications are proving unable to efficiently and comprehensively manage the new enterprise network. Distributed management offers an end-to-end, system-wide approach that distributes the network management intelligence and workload to multiple stations. Distributed management enables MIS managers to use their system resources more efficiently, provides scalability as the network grows and changes, reduces complexity and computing workload at the central management station, provides a way to solve problems more quickly and independently closer to the source, and provides access to enterprise-wide monitoring and topology map information from anywhere in the network. 3Com believes that distributed management features such as adaptive policy-based management, distributed threshold event monitoring, and distributed management task engine capabilities will prove to be of tremendous value to MIS managers in their efforts to control their enterprise networks. 3Com also believes that Windows NT provides a viable application platform for 3Com's Transcend ® Enterprise Manager applications.

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