Managing And Monitoring Your Network; What Is Network Management; What Is Network Monitoring - Nortel 2350 User Manual

Managing and Monitoring Your
Network
What Is Network Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
What Is Network Monitoring? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Deploy Your Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Perform Basic Administrative Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Distribute System Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Import and Export Switch Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Monitoring Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
What's Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

What Is Network Management?

This chapter provides information to help you deploy the services you configured for your wireless network, enable
communication between a WMS client and WLAN Management Software Services, and enable and configure moni-
toring. It also provides you with information about configuring WSS management services and performing specific
administrative tasks.
For detailed information about performing administrative tasks on a WSS, refer to the "Configuring WSS System and
Administrative Parameters" chapter in the

What Is Network Monitoring?

In addition to management capabilities, this chapter highlights the Monitor function, which displays information
retrieved from the WMS service. The Monitor views show correlated data and allow you to navigate to the details. Infor-
mation is presented in the following views under the Monitor tool bar option:
• Status Summary-Shows the high-level status for Nortel equipment.
• Client Summary-Shows activity, errors, and session information for network clients. You can also manage RF
Link Test.
• Alarm Summary-Shows faults (alarms) for WSSs.
• Traffic Summary-Shows traffic statistics for the network and monitors the traffic views.
Clicking the Details button in any of the previous views provides more information about the data in that view.
Once you are familiar with the Monitor function, this chapter also provides three monitoring examples you can use as a
guide to troubleshooting user connectivity issues in your network
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