Study the foundations of enterprise network management through nine chapter presentations covering SNMPv3, management information bases, management-system design, MPLS, and implementation. Supporting tutorials explore service management, quality of service, and migration toward converged networks.
All 18 resources were verified on October 19, 2026. This collection preserves historical teaching materials and their original technical context. PowerPoint and Word files may download for opening in their corresponding applications.
Course Information
- 1CIS516 — Winter 2005 Course SyllabusDOC
Historical syllabus for the Winter 2005 enterprise network management class.
Chapter Presentations
- 2Chapter 1: Managing Enterprise NetworksPPT
Management information bases, managed objects, agents, scripts, and software components for making enterprise systems manageable.
- 3Chapter 2: SNMPv3 and Network ManagementPPT
SNMPv3 engines and applications, message processing, security, encryption, and access-control subsystems.
- 4Chapter 3: The Network Management ProblemPPT
Growing traffic and management complexity, multiple management systems, operational costs, automation, and return on investment.
- 5Chapter 4: Solving the Network Management ProblemPPT
Management skills, smarter systems and MIBs, shared data models, distributed servers, policy-based management, and directory-enabled networking.
- 6Chapter 5: A Real Network Management SystemPPT
HP OpenView as a case study, including FCAPS, MIB and MPLS support, policies, reliability, integration, and programmability.
- 7Chapter 6: Network Management Software ComponentsPPT
Server and client components, synchronous and asynchronous network communication, database access, middleware, and presentation interfaces.
- 8Chapter 7: Rudimentary NMS Software ComponentsPPT
Building SNMP software components with management APIs, Microsoft Visual C++, and the Java Dynamic Management Kit.
- 9Chapter 8: MPLS Management Information BasesPPT
IETF MPLS MIBs, how their elements relate to MPLS, and their use in operational network management.
- 10Chapter 9: Network Management Theory and PracticePPT
An integrated review of MIBs and the principal concepts connecting network management design with implementation.
Advanced Management, MPLS, and Quality of Service
- 11Internet Network and Service Management — ISCC 2004 TutorialPDF
Joseph Ghetie’s tutorial on management architectures, service management, QoS models, service-level agreements, products, and implementation trends.
- 12Generalized MPLS — Concepts and EvolutionPPT
GMPLS drivers, architecture, signaling, traffic-engineering routing, differences from MPLS, and applications.
- 13IP Quality-of-Service Network TestbedPPT
Research project on differentiated services, end-to-end QoS, integrated multimedia services, network management, and testbed experiments.
- 14Evolutionary Migration to Generalized MPLSPPT
Migration from legacy networks toward intelligent optical networking, coordinated IP and optical control, and automated provisioning.
- 15Quality of Service in IP NetworksPPT
QoS drivers, historical technologies and techniques, and management considerations for IP services.
- 16ATM-to-MPLS Convergence StandardsPPT
Phased migration to IP/MPLS, ATM interworking, service continuity, QoS commitments, and operational requirements.
- 17MPLS Network TuningPPT
Swarup Acharya’s presentation on MPLS network tuning and traffic engineering to improve network use.
Supporting References
- 18Traffic Measurement Tools — Columbia UniversityHTML
Historical reference directory of network traffic monitors, packet analyzers, and measurement utilities.