<p>Running head: FCAPS MODEL: 5 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODELS 1</p><p>FCAPS Model: 5 Network Management Models</p><p>Robert White </p><p>DeVry University</p><p>Advanced Network Management with Lab</p><p>NETW420</p><p>Dawn Marshall</p><p>May 7, 2012 FCAPS MODEL: 5 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODELS 2</p><p>Abstract</p><p>This will be a report providing a brief description of the five network management categories that make up the FCAPS model. FCAPS MODEL: 5 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODELS 3</p><p>FCAPS Model: 5 Network Management Models</p><p>FCAPS is usually a network management tool that is also called the ISO Telecommunications </p><p>Management Network. FCAPS represents Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and </p><p>Security which are required to handle a number of groups inside the ISO model's network management tasks. (IBM, 2012)</p><p>Fault management layer this layer must be configure properly or end users will have many different problems. Fault management can have disruptive application and the system will not work properly. Many problems will happened when IT staffs install devices that needs to reconfigure on the systems. Fault Managing operates by spotting, isolating, fixing and recording faults that might occur from time to time inside a network. This management property utilizes trend analysis to help predict errors and eradicates these risks so the network can function without having faults and lower the risk of faults.(IBM, 2012)</p><p>Configuration Management has many goals, one of them is to collect information from devices and make it easy for IT managers. In a corporation end users cannot modify their nodes, this has to done by an administrative personal that have right to make changes most application is read only. Database can be queried for information, and as far as the information represents configuration information that is subject to be changed by a manager, the conceptual database can be modified, inserted, and deleted.(IBM, 2012) Configuration management work much better with other processes to make controlling your infrastructure more efficient. To planning your configuration and to make it work without any problem there are a few things that need to happen one identify the items and other devices and how they will work together. FCAPS MODEL: 5 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODELS 4</p><p>Accounting management functions very much like billing and is particularly sometimes called billing management. It is utilized to gather information and usage statistics which include link utilization, disk usage and CPU time.</p><p>The most important aspect of network monitoring concerns the management of alarms. Alarms are unsolicited messages from the network that indicate that some unexpected event has occurred, which in some cases requires operator intervention. Those unexpected events can actually be about anything from a router that detects that one of its line cards is no longer working to (literally) a fire alarm, from a sudden drop in signal quality on a wireless link to a suspected intrusion into the network by an unauthorized user.(IBM, 2012)</p><p>Performance Management allows IT manager to prepare for future improvement on the existing network. By managing throughput effectively, bottlenecks and other potential problems can be identified and avoided. (Hashmi, April, 2007)</p><p>Lastly, security management contains all the information that should have certain access to the system and what level of information is furnished to the end user. Security management is the process through which details are controlled within the network. The accessing of the information and assets are privatized. This commonly features encryption and authentication services to help secure data.(IBM, 2012) FCAPS MODEL: 5 NETWORK MANAGEMENT MODELS 5</p><p>References</p><p>Hashmi, A. (April, 2007). FCAPS (fault-management, configuration, accounting, performance, </p><p> and security). Retrieved from http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/FCAPS</p><p>IBM. (2012). FCAPS Model. Retrieved from http://www.ibm.com/us/en/DOI: </p><p>/home/returnth/public_html/wp-content/themes/auroral-theme/single.php</p>