Management Basics
OSI
Protocol
The Dark Ages
This and that
100
End stations are usually known as these
What are managed devices
100
Focuses on measuring and monitoring network traffic levels, utilization and other statistical metrics
What is performance management
100
A database of manageable objects
What is a MIB
100
The native method used by Windows to access network resources
What is NetBIOS
100
The TCP/UDP ports assigned for NetBIOS services
What are 137, 138, 139
200
The piece of software that that responds to polls for collected data.
What is the management agent
200
Focuses on documenting network and system configuration date, and monitoring the effects of the use of various versions of hardware and software
What is configuration management
200
The database used to monitor and administer remote segments of a distributed network
What is RMON or remote monitoring MIB
200
A plain text file that lists NetBIOS names and their IP addresses
What is LMHosts
200
A proprietary database that defines manageable objects of a vendors device
What is a private MIB
300
Management traffic travels along the regular network
What is in-band management
300
Focuses on measuring network and service utilization parameters so individual users or groups can be controlled or regulated
What is accounting management
300
A tree like structure that is used to define and organize the managed objects
What is the object tree
300
The service that resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses
What is WINS
300
The command that a manager will use with an agent to read a series of entries in a MIB
GET-NEXT
400
Traffic alerts travel on a separate non-data path
What is out-of-band management
400
Focuses on controlling access to network resources to avoid denials of service and unwanted access or incursions
What is security management
400
A defined point that generates an SNMP TRAP message
What is an event threshold
400
A type of NetBIOS node that registers and resolves names using only broadcast communications
What is a b-node
400
SNMP uses this transport layer protocol for transport
What is UDP
500
A request/response protocol used to transport management messages
What is SNMP
500
Focuses on detecting, logging, and repairing network and system problems
What is fault management
500
A word used as a password to obtain RO, RW or Alert information
What is the community name
500
A command line program that returns statistics on NetBIOS
What is NBTSTAT
500
A device on a network management platform that periodically sends out request to devices on the network to gather all kinds of information
What is a poller
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