SNMP at the edge : building effective service

Routers don't come with service management tools, so users have to build their own. Network managers never had to do that before. This book teaches them how to design and deploy effective service management systems. SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol.

Foreword Introduction Acknowledgments PART 1: SERVICE MANAGEMENT Chapter 1: What Is a Service? Chapter 2: Service Management Systems Chapter 3: The Edge and Service Management PART 2: POLICY AND SERVICE-LEVEL ABSTRACTIONS Chapter 4: Policy-Basted Management Chapter 5: Creating a Network Services Model PART 3: CREATING A SOLUTION Chapter 6: Designing a Service Management System Chapter 7: Configuration Management Using SNMPCONF PART 4: DESIGNING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Chapter 8: Designing Management Software for Managed Devices Chapter 9: SNMP and SNMPCONF Enable More than Configuration PART 5: APPLYING DESIGN PRINCIPLES Chapter 10: Specialized Function Subagents Chapter 11: Management Applications Architecture and Basic Components Chapter 12: A Complete System Chapter 13: External Interfaces Chapter 14: The Future of Management Software Systems Appendix A: References Appendix B: RFCs by Number Appendix C: Useful URL Pointers Index