Method and System for an Offsite Infrastructure Detection of an Enterprise Network

• US 20080040465A1
• Filed: 08/10/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Koster, Corissa S., Beard, Jonathan D., Hourselt, Andrew G., Lehmann, Stefan, Echevarria, Louis D.
• Application Number:
  US11/463,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20080040465A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/024 using relational databases for representation of network management data, e.g. managing via structured query language [SQL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A system implementing a method for an offsite detection of an infrastructure of an enterprise network. The method involves the system parsing enterprise machine data files into an offsite database supporting a logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among a plurality of machines of the enterprise network, and the system generating an enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network.

Claims

1. A computer bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a processor to perform operations for an offsite detection of an infrastructure of an enterprise network, the operations comprising:

parsing a plurality of enterprise machine data files into an offsite database supporting a logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among a plurality of machines of the enterprise network; and

generating an enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network.

2. The computer bearing medium of claim 1, wherein the parsing of the plurality of enterprise machine data files into the offsite database supporting the logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network includes:

receiving a first enterprise machine data file at an offsite location, the first enterprise machine data file including enterprise interconnection information indicative of each enterprise network interconnection of a first machine; and

parsing the first enterprise machine data file into the offsite database.

3. The computer bearing medium of claim 2, wherein the first enterprise machine data file further includes at least structural configuration information indicative of a structural configuration of the first machine and operational information indicative of an operation of the first machine.

4. The computer bearing medium of claim 3, wherein the first enterprise machine data file is parsed into the enterprise connection information, hardware configuration information, software configuration information and log information.

5. The computer bearing medium of claim 1, wherein the generating of the enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network includes:

receiving a web page request for the enterprise network infrastructure profile; and

providing a web page displaying the enterprise network infrastructure profile.

6. The computer bearing medium of claim 5, wherein the enterprise network infrastructure profile displayed by the web page is of subnetwork within the enterprise network.

7. The computer bearing medium of claim 5, wherein the enterprise network infrastructure profile displayed by the web page includes a flagging of each detected change in least one component of at least one machine.

8. An offsite enterprise support system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions operable with the processor for an offsite detection of an infrastructure of an enterprise network, the instructions are executed for;

parsing a plurality of enterprise machine data files into an offsite database supporting a logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among a plurality of machines of the enterprise network; and

generating an enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network.

9. The offsite enterprise support system of claim 8, wherein the parsing of the plurality of enterprise machine data files into the offsite database supporting the logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network includes:

receiving a first enterprise machine data file at an offsite location, the first enterprise machine data file including enterprise interconnection information indicative of each enterprise network interconnection of a first machine; and

parsing the first enterprise machine data file into the offsite database.

10. The offsite enterprise support system of claim 9, wherein the first enterprise machine data file further includes at least structural configuration information indicative of a structural configuration of the first machine and operational information indicative of an operation of the first machine.

11. The offsite enterprise support system of claim 10, wherein the first enterprise machine data file is parsed into the enterprise connection information, hardware configuration information, software configuration information and log information.

12. The offsite enterprise support system of claim 8, wherein the generating of the enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network includes:

receiving a web page request for the enterprise network infrastructure profile; and

providing a web page displaying the enterprise network infrastructure profile.

13. The offsite enterprise support system of claim 12, wherein the enterprise network infrastructure profile displayed by the web page is of subnetwork within the enterprise network.

14. The offsite enterprise support system of claim 12, wherein the enterprise network infrastructure profile displayed by the web page includes a flagging of each detected change in least one component of at least one machine.

15. A method for an offsite detection of an infrastructure of an enterprise network, the method comprising:

parsing a plurality of enterprise machine data files into an offsite database supporting a logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among a plurality of machines of the enterprise network; and

generating an enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the parsing of the plurality of enterprise machine data files into the offsite database supporting the logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network includes:

receiving a first enterprise machine data file at an offsite location, the first enterprise machine data file including enterprise interconnection information indicative of each enterprise network interconnection of a first machine; and

parsing the first enterprise machine data file into the offsite database.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first enterprise machine data file further includes at least structural configuration information indicative of a structural configuration of the first machine and operational information indicative of an operation of the first machine.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first enterprise machine data file is parsed into the enterprise connection information, hardware configuration information, software configuration information and log information.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the generating of the enterprise network infrastructure profile of the enterprise network based on the offsite database logical linkage of each enterprise network interconnection among the plurality of machines of the enterprise network includes:

receiving a web page request for the enterprise network infrastructure profile; and

providing a web page displaying the enterprise network infrastructure profile.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the enterprise network infrastructure profile displayed by the web page is of subnetwork within the enterprise network.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the enterprise network infrastructure profile displayed by the web page includes a flagging of each detected change in least one component of at least one machine.