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## 9. Network Management

## 9.1 Network management applications

There is an impressive number of tools focused on network management and remote administration. Some interesting remote administration projects are linuxconf and webmin:

- Webmin
- Linuxconf

Other tools include network traffic analysis tools, network security tools, monitoring tools, configuration tools, etc. An archive of many of these tools may be found at Metalab

## 9.2 SNMP

The Simple Network Management Protocol is a protocol for Internet network management services. It allows for remote monitoring and configuration of routers, bridges, network cards, switches, etc... There is a large amount of libraries, clients, daemons and SNMP based monitoring programs available for Linux. A good page dealing with SNMP and Linux software may be found at : http://linas.org/linux/NMS.html

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