METHODS FOR DISPLAYING PHYSICAL NETWORK TOPOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS BY LOCATION, ORGANIZATION, OR RESPONSIBLE PARTY

• US 20080263150A1
• Filed: 06/24/2008
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: American Power Conversion Corporation (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Primm, Michael, Childers, Sloan K., Elderton, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,271,626 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

The invention is directed to a system for remote monitoring of a space and equipment. The space and equipment may, for example, be a sever room and associated network equipment. The system has network appliances, a server, and a client machine. The server receives data from a network appliance. The server may then deliver an application and data to the client machine for viewing and manipulating the data. The client machine may display the data as a mapping, displaying icons associated with the network appliances. The client machine may also graph the data. Further, the client machine may manipulate the organization of the data, the configuration settings of the network appliances, and store map and graph configurations.

Claims

1. A system, the system comprising:

at least one network appliance;

a server, the server communicatively coupled to the at least one network application, the server comprising;

means for storing sensor data gathered from the at least one network appliance;

means for storing instructions operable to enable the client machine to submit requests for the sensor data, to display the sensor data, and to manipulate the sensor data; and

means for transferring the instructions to the client machine; and

a client machine, the client machine communicatively coupled to the server, the client machine comprising;

means for acquiring instructions from the server, the instructions operable for requesting from the server data associated with one or more network appliances, the instructions operable for displaying the data associated with one or more network appliances, and the instructions operable for manipulating the server data associated with one or more network appliances; and

means for operating with said instructions.

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