software components

Software components

• Networking operating systems software.
• Network management software.
• User accounts
• User Logs
• Security strategies
• Configuration Management
• Remote management
• Disaster planning
• backup
• Restoration
• Auditing

Networking software

• networks need software to tell the connected devices, how to communicate with each other .

Network operating system

• Small networks can be run using existing windows software, but for larger client - server networks, specialist networks operating systems software is needed. Network operating systems have more complexity because they need to coordinate the activities of all the computers and other devices connected to the network. Examples of network operating system software include:
• UNIX
• LINUX
• Novell Netware - popular client server network operating system

Network Management software

• Network manager responsible for a network consisting of several hundred computers, will need help running the network luckily there is a network called network management software that will help you do this. Some tasks the network management software would help with will include.
• making sure all the computers have up-to-date software with the latest security patches, so that hackers cannot get into the network.
• Keeping track of the software being run on each of the computer and to checking that there are licenses for all the software being used.
• Keeping all application software up to date
• providing remote control facilities so that help desk staff can sort a user's computer problem by seeing exactly what is on the users screen.
• check that bandwidth is being used correctly
• Find out if a user has installed non-licensed software without permission on a networked computer.
• Checking the speed of the processor and the memory used on certain computers this can be useful to identify computers that need upgrading

Users Accounts and logs

• User account logs are an important part of the network software and prevent misuse of the network by users. Should misuse still occur then it is very easy to determine the culprit.

User accounts

• Everyone who uses a a network is given a user account. the user account is set up by the network administrator or network manager.
• At the time the account is created the network administrator will allocate the user certain rights, which are things that the user is allowed to do using the network. All users of a network are able to:
• Change their password
• Change desktop settings (i.e., they can personalise their user interface)
• manage their own files in their storage area.
• It is then up to the person controlling the network to decide:
• which software the user can access
• Which shared files the user has access to the system. This is done by providing a user log, which is a record of the successful and failed logins and also the resources used by those users who have access to network resources.

Security strategies

• The use of networks f