AN SDN APPROACH TO MITIGATING NETWORK MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES IN TRADITIONAL NETWORKS.

Network management consists of monitoring and controlling activities that ensure the network devices are delivering value. In traditional networks, network management is primarily performed manually via the command-line interface using SSH. This approach has several challenges, configuring large networks via the CLI is inefficient, it leads to configuration drift, and it's error-prone. This paper proposes an SDN approach that implements Ansible and Git in centralized network architecture to address the aforementioned problem. The paper shows how network management using an Ansible playbook that dynamically configures multiple devices and push's backup files to Git for version control can mitigate the highlighted challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]