PUBLISH AND SUBSCRIBE METHOD FOR REAL-TIME EVENT MONITORING IN A SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A PLURALITY OF DISPARATE NETWORKS

• US 20100030884A1
• Filed: 07/30/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nectar Holdings, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nectar Holdings, Inc.
• Inventors: Fuccillo, Joseph, Baydian, Edmond, KIEFER, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US12/512,148
• Publication Number:
  US 20100030884A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0604 using filtering, e.g. reduction of information by using priority, element types, position or time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/34 Source routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/785 among multiple network domains, e.g. multilateral agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/302 Administrative registration, e.g. for domain names at internet corporation for assigned names and numbers [ICANN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5076 Update or notification mechanisms, e.g. DynDNS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1063 Application servers providing network services systems providing special services to telephonic subscribers H04M3/42

Abstract

Converged network management application and system is provided that delivers a management platform as a service that can view and/or manage all managed networks in the aggregate, or any one of them individually (including individual devices within the managed networks), in a secure and efficient manner, providing continuously available intelligence in real time on the managed networks and systems, and overcoming integration issues including conflicting address schemas, the need to avoid unnecessary infrastructure, and the need acquire all necessary information in real time within applicable memory and bandwidth constraints.

Claims

1. A method for a management system to access a plurality of network management processes, for a plurality of network facilities, comprising

(a) making a request to a selected one of said network facilities to subscribe to a network management process on said facility;

and

(b) relaying changed information concerning the network management process subscribed to said management system, said relaying being effectuated by said facility at about the same time that it updates its own internal representation of said information.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said relaying is done by the same software routine that updates the internal representation of the updated information.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein, when information is subscribed to, the middleware process that updates the local table also copies the new data to a socket,

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein, wherein, if the network management processes being accessed reside on different networks, proxying the query and response by steps comprising:

(a) combining a first unique identifier with the address of each queried element, to form a combined unique identifier, this step being done within said element'"'"'s local domain; and

(b) making said combined unique identifier available to the querying system.

5. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising setting a filter by time, to get historic and current metric information.