Networking Services and Maintenance

This chapter is designed to teach you about various networking technologies. By getting to understand the important role of each and every networking technology in a computer network, as a network administrator, you will be able to orientate the network to serve the business. That said, this chapter is designed to provide you with a brief introduction to what DHCP, NAT, NTP, CDP and LLDP, and Syslog are, and step-by-step instructions for configuring them. In addition, this chapter explores device maintenance considerations, such as backing up and restoring configuration files and IOS software images. This enables you to react in a timely manner, thus consolidating networking services in an organization. Further, this chapter explains the licensing process that encompasses activities from purchasing a device to installing a license. Then...