Analysing network management systems and example of an enterprise wide area network application

Network Management is an important topic, which is ignored by network users like information security. Enterprise business applications need wide and geographically remote locations that can spread over multiple management areas and network connected computer infrastructures with secure and high performance. However, physical or software related failures might occur in hardware that is used in this kind of infrastructure. Therefore network performance would be insufficient. In this study, the architecture in network management system has been investigated. The properties of today's most widely used network management systems has been analysed in order to be an example for the system to be designed. In accordance with the achievements from the analysis, detail information has been given in order to to simplify the management how to establish an enterprise network and prefer an ideal network management system. During the design stage, the operations that should be performed in establishing network management system, has been clarified systematically. The benefits that can be obtained by enterprise companies in terms of fault management, performance management, account management, configuration management and security management have been discovered.