Integration, management and processing of network data from disparate sources
First Claim
1. A computerized method of integrating data from disparate sources in a network comprising:
- importing the data from the disparate sources;
mapping the data into a common data model;
storing the data in the common data model into a storage structure based on characteristics of the data;
correlating the data in the storage structure to produce information about the network; and
presenting the information to provide a unified view of the network.
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Abstract
A layered architecture for a network information management system integrates data about the network supplied by disparate sources, each specific to network equipment from a particular vendor, by mapping the data into a common data model that represents a unified view of the network. The data is stored into a storage structure based on characteristics of the data and the data in the storage structure is subsequently correlated into information pertaining to the unified view of network. The information is presented to a user in various formats. The network information management system can further perform a knowledge analysis on the information to evaluate the network, detect problems in the network, and to suggest solutions to any problems detected. The knowledge analysis is based on a knowledge scenario that relates the information with an analysis process that performs the analysis.
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35 Claims
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1. A computerized method of integrating data from disparate sources in a network comprising:
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importing the data from the disparate sources;
mapping the data into a common data model;
storing the data in the common data model into a storage structure based on characteristics of the data;
correlating the data in the storage structure to produce information about the network; and
presenting the information to provide a unified view of the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium having executable instructions to cause a computer to execute a method of integrating data from disparate sources in a network, the method comprising:
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importing the data from the disparate sources;
mapping the data into a common data model;
storing the data in the common data model into a storage structure based on characteristics of the data;
correlating the data in the storage structure to produce information about the network; and
presenting the information to provide a unified view of the network. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for a layered management architecture for a network comprising:
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an dynamically adaptive importation engine communicatively coupled to a plurality of disparate sources of network data to import the network data from the disparate sources and to map the network data into abstracted data in a common data model that represents a unified view of the network;
a database system communicatively coupled to the dynamically adaptive importation engine to store the abstracted data from the common data model into a database and to retrieve the abstracted data from the database; and
an application server communicatively coupled to the database system to correlate the abstracted data retrieved from the database by the database module into information for the network and to present the information in a particular format. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon an scenario data structure for a network having disparate data sources comprising:
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an analysis module containing computer-executable instructions to evaluate network information in a first presentation format associated with the analysis module; and
a relationship field defining a relationship between a result produced by the analysis module and a second presentation format that presents further network information. - View Dependent Claims (32)
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33. A computerized system comprising:
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a processing unit coupled to a memory through a bus and further operable for coupled to a plurality of disparate sources that supply data about a network;
an integration and configuration manager process executed from the memory by the processing unit to cause the processing unit to import the data from the disparate sources and to map the data into a common data model;
a database engine process executed from the memory by the processing unit to cause the processing unit to store the data in the common data model into a database and to retrieve the data from the database; and
an application server process executed from the memory by the processing unit to cause the processing unit to correlate the data retrieved from the database to produce information about the network and to present the information to provide a unified view of the network. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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