Software components

SOFTWARE COMPONENTS

Network management, administration and problem solving strategies

You need to know:-

The software components used to manage a network

• User Accounts and Logs

• Security Strategies;

• Configuration Management;

• Remote Managment;

• Disaster Planning (backup & restoration);

• Auditing (keeping logs)

Configuration Management

Configuration management is to configuring a network to maximise its performance (1) by organising and maintaining all the information about a network (1)

Advantages

• It is much easier to repair, expand or upgrade the network

• The network will run faster as it is optimised

• Less network downtime due to better management

• Network security is optimised (constant antivirus updates)

• It is possible to roll back changes to a previous configuration if changes made to the network badly affect its performance

• It (automatically) keeps records of all the changes made to a network so you do not need to write down all the new settings

• It allows you to future proof your network