Intelligent collaboration across network systems
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Abstract
A network monitoring system and method for analyzing network traffic is provided. This network monitoring system and method employ flow monitoring to analyze the traffic flow inside a switching device. All message packets entering the switching device are filtered and then sampled. After message packets are sampled, the switching device generates reporting packets containing network information related to the sampled packets. These reporting packets are then transmitted to a monitor server for analysis. Generally, the monitor server is coupled to a number of the switching devices so that the overall performance of the network can be gathered and presented to the users.
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48 Claims
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29. A method of monitoring a switching device, comprising the steps of:
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receiving message packets from a network;
controlling a flow of said received message packets;
sampling said controlled message packets; and
collecting data related to said sampled message packets. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A switching device, comprising:
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a network interface for connecting to a network;
a packet filter coupled to said network interface for controlling a flow of message packets into said switching device from said network;
a packet sampler coupled to said packet filter for sampling said filter controlled message packets; and
a data collector coupled to said packet sampler for collecting data related to said sampled message packets. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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