Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 176 pages
- Published by: Cisco Press November 11, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 158713800X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1587138003
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.7 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 12 ounces
Product Description
Today's rapidly changing technology offers increasingly complex challenges to the network administrator, MIS director and others who are responsible for the overall health of the network. This Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide picks up where other network manuals and texts leave off. It addresses the areas of how to anticipate and prevent problems, how to solve problems, how to operate a healthy network and how to troubleshoot. Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide also provides basic technical and troubleshooting information about cable testing, Ethernet and Token Ring networks and additional information about Novell's IPX® protocol and TCP/IP. Examples are shown as either diagrams and tables, or screen captures from Fluke instruments. Network professionals will appreciate the guide's "real world" orientation toward solving network crises quickly, by guiding readers to solutions for restoration of end to end data delivery as quickly as possible. The network novice will learn from the simplified descriptions about networking technology in the Appendices.
Book Info
(Fluke Networks Press) Offers the system administrator and others who are responsible for the health of a computer network a guide to anticipating and addressing common problems. A reference focusing on troubleshooting and solving minor problems before they become major problems, with numerous graphs, charts, and other visual aids. Wire-spiral bound.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Network maintenance and troubleshooting guide (Spiral-bound)
It took months for Amazon to dig this book up but it was worth the wait. Like Fluke equipment, the book is top of the range. However, while it does make some allowances for the less technically savvy, it's not really for beginners. (If you are new to networks but have an electronics background I do not classify you as a beginner but if you have some computer skills and have plugged a cable into a hub a few times, I do.) The only fault I can find with it is that it assumes you use Fluke devices for maintaining and trouble shooting...but maybe that is Allen's subtle way of saying "to troubleshoot use Fluke" - advice that is probably as good as what is said explicitly in the text. Although the book has many useful appendices, it is light and reasonably small, so it can easily accompany you on the job. If you are a professional network engineer I think this is a must read. If not, but have a technical foundation, it is a great place to start but for computer users who want to start learning about network maintenance, while helpful, it will be difficult to digest.
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