All four products are mature, well-crafted and thoughtfully designed. We suffered nary a crash during our testing. With its wealth of features, useful reports and consistent user interface, OpenView ...

The most accurate definition of a network management system that I have seen comes from a Cisco training document: “In some cases, it (network management) involves a solitary network consultant ...

The elements you need for network management, and why it matters. Maybe you're wondering why we need network management best practices. To start, all complex systems will have many different ways that ...

Network management tools have come a long way from the early command-line products with arcane, text-based configuration files that kept everyone except the resident (typically Linux) guru in the dark ...

Monitoring the right things in your network and making them visible in dashboards can make the difference between proactive and reactive responses to network problems. I recently wrote about using log ...

A collaboration system that doesn’t get broadly adopted by the intended user base really isn’t a collaboration system. It’s just useless software code. So what drives adoption? Demonstrating the value ...

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) is updating its OmniVista Cirrus network management system with its release 10 milestone that was announced this week. "OmniVista Cirrus 10 offers advanced analytics ...