Today, companies are directly linked to their branch offices, customers, partners and suppliers. Besides good quality services, this also demands high performance and the availability of applications, networks and servers.

Automated, proactive management and monitoring systems supported by analysis and suitable measuring procedures are used. These systems make trend and performance statistics data available and show the end-to-end performance from the user’s point of view.

Network management allows network administrators to control performance and thus guarantee service quality throughout the entire network.

They are able to manage a number of tasks:

• assuring network availability and performance of the network
• document the service level
• remedy quickly fluctuations and performance interruptions
• uncover problems
• track down overcapacity and bandwidth problems
• manage capacity
• efficiently plan network development and expansion
• reduce costs
• create reports