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    Cloud computing deployments must be monitored and 
    managed in order to be optimized for best performance.
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    Cloud management software provides capabilities for 
    managing faults, configuration, accounting, performance, 
    and security; this is referred to as FCAPS.
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    DMTF's (Distributed Management Task Force) Open Cloud 
    Standards Incubator.
   These fundamental features are offered 
   by traditional network management 
   systems:
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    Administration of resources
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    Configuring resources
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    Enforcing security
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    Monitoring operations
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    Optimizing performance
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    Policy management
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    Performing maintenance
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    Provisioning of resources
  Network management systems acronym FCAPS
   Fault
   Configuration
   Accounting
   Performance
   Security
   Fault Management
   • A  fault  is  an  event  that  has  a  negative  significance.  The  goal  of fault 
    management is to recognize, isolate, correct and log faults that occur in 
    the network.  It  also  uses  trend  analysis  to  predict  errors  so  that  the 
    network is always available. This can be established by monitoring different 
    things for abnormal behavior.
   • When  a  fault  or  event  occurs,  a  network  component  will  often  send  a 
    notification  to  the  network  operator  using  either  a  proprietary  or 
    open protocol such  as SNMP (such  as  HP  OpenView  or  Sun  Solstice–
    formerly Net Manager), to collect information about network devices or at 
    least  write  a  message  to  its  console  for  a console  server to  catch  and 
    log/page. In turn, the management station can be configured to make a 
    network administrator aware of problems (by email, paging, or on-screen 
    messages),  allowing  appropriate  action  to  be  taken.  This  notification  is 
    supposed  to  trigger  manual  or  automatic  activities.  For  example,  the 
    gathering of more data to identify the nature and severity of the problem or 
    to bring backup equipment on-line.
   Configuration Management
    The goals of  Configuration Management include:
   to gather and store configurations from network devices (this 
    can be done locally or remotely).
   to simplify the configuration of the device
   to track changes that are made to the configuration
   to configure ('provision') circuits or paths through non-switched 
    networks
   to plan for future expansion and scaling