METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING NETWORK DEVICE INFORMATION

• US 20070088688A1
• Filed: 11/16/2006
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Faulkner, Gary, Martinek, Joshua
• Granted Patent: US 8,019,798 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/044 comprising hierarchical management structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/046 comprising network management agents or mobile agents therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a network management system. The network monitoring system includes at least one device definition file, a simple network management protocol enabled communications interface, and a data access interface. The definition file includes query instructions associated with portions of MIBs associated with a network device. The simple network management protocol enabled communications interface may access the network device using the query instructions and may receive response data from the network device. The data access interface may be configured to provide external access to the response data and configure thresholds.

Claims

1. A method of generating a device definition file, the method comprising:

determining an object identification associated with a management information base of a network device;

generating query instructions associated with the object identification;

adding supplemental data to the query instructions, the supplemental data associated with the object identification; and

providing a unit conversion code to the query instructions, the unit conversion code associated with the object identification.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

correlating a description object identification associated with the object identification.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

saving the query instructions in a device definition file.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

parsing the management information base associated with the network device to determine the object identification.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the query instructions are associated with a static query.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the query instructions are associated with a table query and the object identification is a management information base branch starting position.