Chapter 14: Monitoring and Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network

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Chapter 14 Monitoring and Managing a Microsoft
Windows 2000 Network

• Networking Services Monitoring and Management
• Responding to Changes in the Networking Services
  Status

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Monitoring and Management Goals

• Identify the management design requirements.
• Determine the complexity of the design.
• Select proactive or reactive networking services
  management.

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Proactive and Reactive Management Strategies
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Management Design Components

• Collect networking services status.
• Analyze the status.
• Respond to status changes.

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Identifying Critical Networking Services

• Identify the following
• The critical applications
• The servers managing the resources
• The networking services required by the servers
  and applications

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Determining the Speed of Response to Changes
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Selecting the Type of Response to Changes

• Base the response type on the required response
  speed.
• Determine the appropriate response type.
• Immediate response types
• Delayed response types
• Scheduled response types

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Selecting the Method of Response to Changes

• Choose a method that meets response time
  requirements.
• Use these methods alone or in combination
• Performance Logs and Alerts MMC snap-in
• Services MMC snap-in
• Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS)
• Scripting or applications
• Manual methods

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Chapter Summary

• The operations staff manages the network after
  deployment.
• The management design assists the operations
  staff.
• The management design is customized for the
  network.
• The design determines how to respond to changes.