Answer to Question #174474 in Computer Networks for Kwame Hayford

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a) Explain two factors that can be important to the business success of a third-party

management application vendor that potentially has to compete with a network management offering of a network equipment vendor

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b) Explain the most important reason for using a dedicated management network instead of a shared one?

 Assume that you need to manage a network that contains three different types of

 devices. To avoid dependence on a particular vendor, you have two suppliers for each

 type of device. Explain some of the ways in which management standards are

 important in this situation.

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a) Factors:

• the ability to be used on a variety of platforms/vendors hence it should be cross platform application.
• It should be expandable to new platforms/ vendors and also should not be limited to any specific equipment or service type but should take into consideration, network propagation.

b) The most important reason for using a dedicated management network instead of a shared one: reliability—with a dedicated management network, management traffic is carried independently of traffic over the production network, making management significantly more reliable.

c) Without management standards you must support six different types of interfaces for your network. If you develop tools or scripts, you need to be well versed in six interfaces instead of only one. In addition, it will take you longer to develop them. Likewise, network management suppliers incur higher costs that they will want to recover from their customers.