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Choosing a Configuration Method

There are many ways to configure devices, from automatic configuration protocols such as BOOTP and DHCP, through command line interface and configuration files, to graphical user interfaces.

These techniques may use a mixture of proprietary manufacturer information and techniques and standardized protocols and data formats. As will be shown in the following sections, there are benefits and disadvantages to using the vendor-specific approaches, but the standardized methods give a great benefit in providing a centralized and coherent view of the network.

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In this tutorial:

  1. IP Network Management
  2. Choosing to Manage your Network
  3. Choosing a Configuration Method
  4. Command Line Interfaces
  5. Graphical User Interfaces
  6. Standardized Data Representations and Access
  7. Making the Choice
  8. Management Information Base
  9. Representing Managed Objects
  10. Simple Network Management Protocol
  11. Requests, Responses, and Notifications
  12. SNMP Versions and Security
  13. Choosing an SNMP Version
  14. Extensible Markup Language
  15. Extensibility and Domains of Applicability
  16. XML Remote Procedure Calls
  17. Simple Object Access Protocol
  18. XML Applicability to Network Management
  19. Common Object Request Broker Architecture
  20. Interface Definition Language
  21. The Architecture
  22. CORBA Communications
  23. Choosing a Configuration Protocol
  24. Choosing to Collect Statistics
  25. Policy Control
  26. Choosing to Apply Policy
  27. Policy Information Base