A small organization wishes to setup a network management system to detect network failures and monitor the general network health. To avoid data overload, the organization wants to monitor no more than three performance metrics in the network and wants to limit the number of interfaces to be monitored.

The organization provided a network diagram showing the main components in the network. Each device is labeled (green squares) and the main ports as well (orange circles). Your task is to provide advice the organization about what they need to do to implement the system.

a. Which of the FCAPS functional areas will you implement to fulfill the organizations main requirements?

b. Which protocol will you use to detect failures?

c. List the network devices that need to be monitored for failure.

d. Which protocol(s) will you use to monitor network performance?

e. List a maximum of three metrics to monitor in the network (refer to Appendix B in the course notes).

f. List the ports to be monitored in the network.

g. Suggest location(s) to install the network management platform components that you need. This includes all the servers that you need run the network management software and to receive messages and notifications from the network devices.

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