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What is Power-Saving Network Management

Chapter 78
Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
A growing awareness that networked devices are a significant power drain, even when inactive. The traditional network management processes (device polling, health checks, fault and intrusion detection by anomaly) are predicated on the requirement that networked devices are able and ready to report their status (and to monitor the status of neighbors) on a regular basis, and where a lack of response is taken as an indication of potential device or connection failure. Therefore, networked devices typically remained powered on so that they can respond to checks on a regular basis.
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Network Management Resource Costs
Colin Pattinson (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch078
Abstract
The reliance on computer communications networks for business and commerce, education, entertainment and many other applications demands these resources are managed effectively. In this context, “management” refers to ensuring security and performance, recovering from faults and accounting for utilisation. Each of these activities requires knowledge of the network configuration, and information about the networked devices. It is on the basis of this knowledge that management decisions to change the configuration and network behaviour are taken. Hence the manager requires as full and accurate a set of information about the network under their control as it is possible to get. Typically, this information resides across the network and is transferred (to the network manager) to assist the network manager’s decision making.
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