Network Management
fault management
- Monitor all equipment to detect faults
- Alarm appropriate team members on fault
- Record faults, identify problematic issues
- Dispatch as needed to resolve faults
Equipment Configuration
- Initial setup and configuration of equipment
- Manage ongoing changes to equipment configurations
- Firm upgrades
- Saving/restoring/managing configurations
- Logging configuration changes
Administration
- Recommend systems to monitor/track issues
- Assure all issues are tracked
- Identify costs associated with failures
- Recommend actions to minimize failures/costs
performance
- Ensure system is operating at acceptable service levels
- Collect statistics from network elements
- Analyze statistics and alarm when performance diminishes
- Recommend/take action to correct performance failures
Security
- Recommend network security policies/plan
- Implement systems to identify/defend against security threats
- Prevent unauthorized access
- Notify key staff on security breaches