Illustrated TCP/IP by Matthew G. Naugle Wiley Computer Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 0471196568   Pub Date: 11/01/98

Chapter 340
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Network Management can be broken down into five distinct categories:

Account management: Gathers information on which users or departments are employing which network services.

Fault management: Includes troubleshooting, finding, and correcting failed or damaged components, monitoring equipment for early problem indicators, and tracking down distributed problems.

Security: Includes authorization, access control, data encrypting, and management of encrypting keys.

Configuration management: Tracks hardware and software information. Included with this are administration tasks, such as day-to-day monitoring and maintenance of the current physical and logical state of the network, as well as recognition and registrations of applications and services on the network.

Performance: The monitoring of traffic on the network.