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Real-time configuration discovery and management

  • US 10,263,863 B2
  • Filed: 08/11/2017
  • Issued: 04/16/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring network traffic in a network, wherein one or more processors execute instructions to perform the method, comprising:

  • employing a network monitoring computer to execute instructions that perform actions, including;

    executing a network monitoring engine to perform further actions, including;

    passively monitoring the network to collect a plurality of characteristics associated with one or more network flows, wherein an efficiency of the monitoring of network packets corresponding to the one or more network flows is improved by passively monitoring these network flows to avoid decryption of encrypted network packets and foregoing expensive participation in one or more of a deep packet inspection or an associated communication protocol;

    identifying one or more entities on the network based on one or more of the plurality of characteristics associated with the one or more network flows; and

    providing one or more entity profiles based on the identified entities and the one or more characteristics; and

    executing a configuration management engine to perform actions, including;

    comparing the one or more entity profiles with one or more configuration item (CI) entries in a database are based on one or more previously identified entities that are included in a particular infrastructure; and

    providing one or more discrepancy notices based on differences in the comparison, wherein each discrepancy notice is associated with one or more differences between the one or more entity profiles and corresponding CI entries; and

    wherein the network monitoring engine executes one or more policies to perform one or more additional actions based on the one or more discrepancies notices.

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