Network and Storage Management

Effective capacity planning is required for network devices such as firewalls, load balancers, routers, switches, and hubs to maintain optimum performance levels. You also need to manage and administer network usage effectively along with regular monitoring of network thresholds. Proactively detecting network degradation before it becomes a service bottleneck is important. Monitoring bandwidth utilization trends, looking into spare capacity, providing network security and bug patch notification, administering firewalls, performing event analysis, creating and monitoring watch lists, and conducting overall network fault management find a place in day-to-day activities. Anticipating growth over a three- to five-year period is also important ....