Glengoyne
03-07-2005, 07:57 PM
Just curious if anyone can recommend any books on managing enterprise networks. High level of course, something like the idiot's guide to Networking in the Enterporise. It is something that is about to be placed on my boss's plate, and he knows nothing about networks at all. So I figure I will at very least be responsible for managing the networking staff, and to do that I'd kind of at least like to understand what they are doing from a high level.
I know the roles of the various hardware components(routers and such), but have little direct experience configuring them or achitecting a network. We're talking about a twenty or so servers on a network that services four distinct locations around the country. Right now most of the communication between sites is handled over the internet via VPN. The current configuration has been cobbled together by a Network Administrator who has complicated the process to the point that no one else can actually work on the Network.
I know the roles of the various hardware components(routers and such), but have little direct experience configuring them or achitecting a network. We're talking about a twenty or so servers on a network that services four distinct locations around the country. Right now most of the communication between sites is handled over the internet via VPN. The current configuration has been cobbled together by a Network Administrator who has complicated the process to the point that no one else can actually work on the Network.