Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous on factory floors. Expectations are, for example, that Ethernet nodes in the process industries will nearly double over the next few years. The market research firm IMS ...

The most accurate definition of a network management system that I have seen comes from a Cisco training document: “In some cases, it (network management) involves a solitary network consultant ...

A big network is a complex system that generates a very large volume of data: log messages, network state data, device state data, device configurations, interface performance data, and application ...

Network management tools have come a long way from the early command-line products with arcane, text-based configuration files that kept everyone except the resident (typically Linux) guru in the dark ...