Software-defined networking (SDN) is no longer hype. Enterprises are evaluating, testing, purchasing and deploying the technology today. SDN adds new network elements, new abstractions, new protocols, and new device relationships to data center networks. To ensure that enterprises succeed with SDN, network management tools must evolve to support these new architectures. Network fault and performance monitoring tools along with network configuration and change management (NCCM) tools have an important role to play in future SDN engineering and operations. Many of the network management challenges that SDN presents to enterprises are addressable by existing tools, as long as those tools evolve to work with SDN.