Self-monitoring service system with reporting of asset changes by time and category
First Claim
1. A method for tracking and reporting changes to monitored computer and network assets within a system monitoring system, comprising:
- establishing a communications link over a communications network with a client monitoring node;
receiving from the client monitoring node a first comparison point and a second comparison point;
retrieving from memory storing asset data a first set of the asset data corresponding to the first comparison point and a second set of the asset data corresponding to the second comparison point;
comparing the second set of asset data to the first set of asset data to identify asset deltas occurring between the first and second comparison points; and
transmitting an asset delta report to the client monitoring node including the identified asset deltas.
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Abstract
A method for reporting computer system and network asset changes. The method includes receiving from a client node first and second comparison points, such as survey dates or user-entered dates. The method continues with retrieving from memory sets of asset data corresponding to each of the comparison points and then comparing the sets of asset data to identify asset deltas. An asset delta report is transmitted to the client node providing the sets of asset data for the two comparison points and change of status flags or other indications of which assets were determined to have changes at the two comparison points. Viewing parameters and filtering variables, such as particular monitored systems and asset subsets, are received and used to determine which asset data sets to compare and to include in the asset delta report. To reduce storage requirements, asset data is stored when changes occur between asset surveys.
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1. A method for tracking and reporting changes to monitored computer and network assets within a system monitoring system, comprising:
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establishing a communications link over a communications network with a client monitoring node;
receiving from the client monitoring node a first comparison point and a second comparison point;
retrieving from memory storing asset data a first set of the asset data corresponding to the first comparison point and a second set of the asset data corresponding to the second comparison point;
comparing the second set of asset data to the first set of asset data to identify asset deltas occurring between the first and second comparison points; and
transmitting an asset delta report to the client monitoring node including the identified asset deltas. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An asset delta reporting system, comprising:
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a data storage device for storing asset data for a monitored computer system;
a data receiver for interfacing with a communications network and receiving an initial set of asset data for assets in the monitored computer system and a later-collected set of asset data for the assets in the monitored computer system gathered after the initial set; and
an asset data storage controller configured to store the initial set of asset data in the data storage device, to compare the later-collected set of asset data to the stored initial set of asset data to identify asset deltas, and to store in the data storage device portions of the later-collected set of asset data corresponding to the identified asset deltas. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computerized method of reporting changes to system and network assets in a client computer environment, comprising:
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gathering asset data for assets in monitored systems in the client computer environment at an initial survey time and at a plurality of later asset survey times;
storing at least a portion of the gathered asset data in memory;
receiving user input comprising a first and a second comparison time and change reporting information; and
based on the change reporting information, comparing the stored asset data corresponding to the first and second comparison times to identify asset deltas and reporting the identified asset deltas. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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