In OSS, we use the polling concept often to pull statistics and configuration data from the devices. If the devices we are dealing with are implementing the pull-based protocols such as SNMP or FTP, we cannot get rid of this. All types of polling processes come with a polling period. If I have 100 routers… Read More »
Configuration management is the process that manages the resource configurations. The term “provisioning” is sometimes used interchangeably with CM. First feature of the configuration managers is to provide abstraction, over the lower layer devices, which leads us to business process consolidation, reduced silos and increased enterprise effectiveness. Let me give an example on this. Suppose,… Read More »