TTM 4128 Network and Service Management - Spring 2012

The overall learning objectives (LO) of this course are:

• Knowledge
  • To get a basic understanding of principles and architectures for management of networks and networked services
  • To get a profound understanding of SNMP as an architecture and platform for network management
  • To get a profound understanding of Web-based management
  • To get a basic overview of the area of Adaptive Systems and Autonomic Communication
• Skills
  • To be able to communicate, reason and creatively think about management of networks and networked services
  • To be able to design, implement and use web-based platforms for network management
  • To be able to configure and use Net-SNMP for network management

Learning objectives for each topic of this course can be obtained from Lecture Schedule page.

The plan for Spring 2012 can be downloaded as PDF here.

• TTM4100 Communication - Services and Networks
• TDT4145 Data Modeling, Databases and Database Management Systems
• TTM4115 Engineering Distributed Real-time Systems

Lectures: Mondays 11.15-14.00 in EL4
Exercises/Assignments: Tuesdays 17.15-19.00 in EL4 or Sahara Lab (F272)

2.1 Lecture Structure

• A) General: (1 week)
  • A.1. Introduction and Course Overview
  • A.2. Standards and Model Foundations
• B) SNMP based management (4 weeks)
  • B.1. ASN.1 (1 week)
  • B.2. SNMP (2 weeks)
  • B.3. SNMP v2-3 (1 week)
• C) WEB-based Management (5 weeks)
  • C.1. WEB-based platform technologies (2 weeks)
  • C.2. WEB management standards (3 weeks)
• D) Adaptive and Autonomic Systems (1 week)

The lectures will mainly be based on 2+1 hour lecture schedule structure. Two hours are normal lectures while the one hour lecture is for repetition, questions and example cases.

2.2 Semester Assignment
There will be two Semester assignment deliveries in the spring 2012.

Part 1: Network management based on SNMP.
Part 2: Network management based on Web-services and Semantic web.

The semester assignments will be graded with weight 33%. The grading is both based on the written submission as well as presentation and demonstration. The assignment will be graded by %-score (0-100%). The grading of the assignments will not be published before the final grade is published.

2.3 Exercises
Exercise 1 General (Lab)
Exercise 2 SNMPv1 (Theoretical)
Exercise 3 SNMP v1/v2 , Net-snmp (LAB)
Exercise 4 SNMP v2/v3 (Theoretical)

The exercises are voluntary. The understanding of the exercises as well as semester assignment will be tested during the final exam.

Mani Subramanian, Network Management - Principles and Practice, Addison-Wesley, 2000
ISBN-10: 0201357429
ISBN-13: 978-0201357424

The syllabus of this course is based on:

• Textbook
• Selected articles
• Lecture presentations

May 19th, 0900-1200, Support type D

Check out Tools and learning resources page for the useful tools and learning resources associated with this course.