Private Cloud Network Management System

Abstract

Network Automation is the game-changer in Network Management in most organizations and across the world. This is bring about change and shift in the way network configuration, design deployment, and monitoring have been done in the previous years. The emergency of a Software-defined network is shifting the Network vendors to produce devices that can be integrated and run as infrastructure as a code. This emergency and evolution of technology will assist an organization to reduce operational costs and provide a customizable way of architecture the Network for the novice ways while reducing the complexity of managing the Network Infrastructure. Network management is one area that the approach of Network automation using infrastructure as a code is taking high precedence. While leveraging on Network automation, Network engineers and Information Technology Support Team will be able to interact with systems in a friendly way while managing. This study focused on a Network management tool that is meant to assist Network engineers and helpdesk to deploy, manage and configure network switches in a multi-vendor environment. The Network Management is proof of concept to showcase how automation can simplify network complexities in a multi-vendor environment to present a solution to the existing challenge of manual configuration and specialized skills geared towards a particular vendor in the Networking industry. Hence it fits in the gap analysis that was established in the literature review as it was identified the existing solutions reviewed could not provide centralized configuration management for the multivendor environment.