METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND ANALYZING OF ROUTING IN IP NETWORKS

• US 20080263188A1
• Filed: 06/28/2007
• Published: 10/23/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Business Network Services, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Kao, David Taiyung, AWDUCHE, Daniel O.
• Application Number:
  US11/770,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20080263188A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/52 Multiprotocol routers

Abstract

Exemplary embodiments include methods and systems for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting of control plane dynamics of a network including collect data associated with the one or more probe modules associated with a network, store the data associated with the one or more probe modules, analyze the data associated with the one or more probes modules, and output a result of the analysis of the data associated with the one or more probe modules to one or more user devices.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a collector module configured to collect data associated with one or more probe modules associated with a network;

a repository module configured to store the data associated with the one or more probe modules;

an analytical module configured to analyze the data associated with the one or more probes modules; and

a presentation module configured to output a result of the analysis of the data associated with the one or more probe modules.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more probes associated with the network comprises a router.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more probes associated with the network is further configured to participate in a routing protocol of the network.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the routing protocol of the network comprises at least one of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Intermediate System to Intermediate System (ISIS), and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more probes associated with the network is located in a control plane of the network.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the collector module is further configured to process the data associated with the one or more probes.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein processing the data associated with the one or more probes comprises at least one of filtering, formatting and aggregating the data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the analytical module is further configured to perform at least one of data mining analysis, pattern matching analysis, time series analysis, correlative analysis and exploratory analysis.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation module comprises an alerting module configured to alert a user based at least in part on one or more parameters specified by the user.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation module is further configured to generate a report based at least in part on one or more parameters specified by a user.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the presentation module is further configured to provide at least one of an inside view of the network and an outside view of the network.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprises one or more user devices to display the result of the analysis.

13. A method, comprising:

collecting data from the one or more probes associated with the network;

storing the data collected from the one or more probes associated with the network;

analyzing the data collected from the one or more probes associated with the network;

outputting a result of the analysis of the data collected from the one or more probes associated with the network.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprises locating one or more probes associated with a network.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprises the one or more probes associated with the network participating in a routing protocol of the network.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprises locating the one or more probes associated with the network in a control plane of the network.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprises processing the data collected from the one or more probes associated with the network.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein processing the data collected from the one or more probes associated with the network comprises at least one of the filtering, formatting and aggregating the data.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein analyzing the data collected from the one or more probes associated with the network further comprises performing at least one of data mining analysis, pattern matching analysis, time series analysis, correlative analysis and exploratory analysis.

20. The method of claim 13, further comprises alerting a user based at least in part on one or more parameters specified by the user.

21. The method of claim 13, further comprises generating a report based at least in part on one or more parameters specified by a user.

22. A computer readable media comprising code to perform the acts of the method of claim 13.