METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETECT A NETWORK DEFICIENCY

• US 20090089418A1
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Kimmet, Tim, Yang, Connie Y., Saha, Debashis, Lee, Sangjin, Bigian, Armond, El-Charif, Rami
• Granted Patent: US 8,135,824 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level

Abstract

A system to detect a network deficiency, in one example embodiment, comprises a receiving module to receive utilization metrics of at least one network resource, wherein the utilization metrics are collected and made available at a network level, an aggregator to aggregate the utilization metrics of at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of a plurality of the network resources, a processing module to determine a level of aggregated utilization metrics of the network resources, and a detecting module to detect a precursor indicative of a network traffic deterioration based on the level of the aggregated utilization metrics.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving utilization metrics of at least one network resource, wherein the utilization metrics are collected and made available at a network level;

aggregating the utilization metrics of the at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of a plurality of network resources;

determining a level of aggregated utilization metrics of the network resources; and

detecting a precursor indicative of a network traffic deterioration based on the level of the aggregated utilization metrics.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregating of the utilization metrics of the at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources is limited to aggregating the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources received from a group of homogeneous network resources.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the aggregated utilization metrics on a graphical user interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregating of the utilization metrics of the network resources with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources comprising a central processing unit utilization, a memory exhaustion, a thread pool utilization, and a transaction time.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising issuing an alarm in response to the detecting of the precursor indicative of the network traffic deterioration.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregating of the utilization metrics of the network resource with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources is customizable to allow a selection of the utilization metrics.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the aggregating of the utilization metrics of the network resource with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources further comprises recognizing and filtering out the utilization metrics of the network resources in a degraded mode.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising reporting of the aggregated utilization metrics to a policy engine execution module in response to the detecting of the precursor indicative of the network traffic deterioration.

9. A system comprising:

a receiving module to receive utilization metrics of at least one network resource, wherein the utilization metrics are collected and made available at a network resource level;

an aggregator to aggregate the utilization metrics of the at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of a plurality of network resources;

a processing module to determine a level of aggregated utilization metrics of the network resources; and

a detecting module to detect a precursor indicative of a network traffic deterioration based on the level of the aggregated utilization metrics.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the aggregator that is to aggregate the utilization metrics of the at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources is limited to aggregating component utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources received from a group of homogeneous network resources.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising a display to display the aggregated utilization metrics on a graphical user interface.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the aggregator is to aggregate the utilization metrics of the network resources with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources, the utilization metrics comprising a central processing unit utilization, a memory exhaustion, a thread pool utilization, and a transaction time.

13. The system of claim 9, further comprising an alarming module to issue an alarm in response to the detecting of the precursor indicative of the network traffic deterioration.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the aggregator is configurable to aggregate a selection of the utilization metrics of the network resource with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the aggregator is to aggregate the utilization metrics of the network resource with the utilization metrics of the plurality of the network resources, the aggregator configurable to recognize and filter out the utilization metrics of the network resources in a degraded mode.

16. The system of claim 9, further comprising a reporting module to report the aggregated utilization metrics to a policy engine execution module in response to the detecting of the precursor indicative of the network traffic deterioration.

17. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors, perform the following operations:

receive utilization metrics of at least one network resource, wherein the utilization metrics are collected and made available at a network level;

aggregate the utilization metrics of the at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of a plurality of the network resources;

determine a level of aggregated utilization metrics of the network resources; and

detect a precursor indicative of a network traffic deterioration based on the level of the aggregated utilization metrics.

18. A method comprising:

means for receiving utilization metrics of at least one network resource, wherein the utilization metrics are collected and made available at a network level;

means for aggregating the utilization metrics of the at least one network resource with the utilization metrics of a plurality of the network resources;

means for determining a level of aggregated utilization metrics of the network resources; and

means for detecting a precursor indicative of a network traffic deterioration based on the level of the aggregated utilization metrics.