Network Management: Fault Management, Performance Management, And Planned Maintenance

This chapter discusses the systems, activities, and challenges associated with daily operation of large IP/MPLS networks. Specifically, this chapter focuses on detecting, troubleshooting, and resolving faults and performance events. It highlights how network performance and health is managed over time, with emphasis on the application and challenges of exploratory data mining in this context. And finally, the chapter explores planned maintenance; the activities that operations personnel perform as part of the continued operations, evolution, and growth of large IP/MPLS networks.