Network Management Solutions
Network management solutions are essential tools for monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing networks. They help IT administrators ensure the smooth and secure operation of their organizations’ IT infrastructure by identifying potential issues, automating management and maintenance tasks, and aggregating key performance and health data— all of which help IT teams identify and troubleshoot problems, and minimize network downtime. Network management solutions are also sometimes known as network management systems.
Network management solutions are available as both on-premises and cloud-based platforms, and can cater to both small businesses, large enterprises, and managed service providers (MSPs). They typically consist of various components and features that are designed to address different aspects of network management, such as monitoring network devices, analyzing traffic patterns, and managing security policies.
Network management tools enable network administrators to monitor and control the entire network (on-premises or cloud) to address service needs and business objectives. A network is created when two or more devices communicate with each other through the transfer of data. Devices come in many forms but the important network devices are clients, servers, switches, routers, firewalls, and access points. These network devices above allow common devices such as computers, phones, smart watches, IoT, and others to connect to each other. Devices can be connected physically, virtually, and wirelessly via LAN, WAN, VPN, and different types of networks.