Network Management Software
Device (point) management software
- Provide specific information about a device
- Configuration, traffic, error conditions, etc
System management software
- aka, enterprise management software
- Provide analysis device info to diagnose patterns
- Prevents alarm storms (for a failure on a circuit, many connected devices sending alarms)
- Software analyze these and correlates them and generates a single alarm to the manager
Application management software
- Monitor applications based on device info
- Focus on delays and application layer packets