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From: zweig@cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig)
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Subject: What is Network Management?
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Date: 20 Dec 90 19:14:04 GMT
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Being involved in the somewhat narrow domain of protocol processing software,
there are aspects of the Networking Scene(tm) I do not fully understand. Could
someone give me a succinct, nutshell definition of the term "Network
Management"?  I mean, I can talk about the innards of TCP/IP all day long, but
I don't know whether NM means expert systems for doing routing, assigning
adresses, running YP, fixing cables, deciding which newsfeeds to use, or some
combination thereof....  It's kind of like some of the New Age terminology
("healing" is a fine example) that seems to be a set of terms I thought I knew
what they meant until they were used in a particular way...

-Johnny Unmanageable