ENHANCING VISUALIZATION OF RELATIONSHIPS AND TEMPORAL PROXIMITY BETWEEN EVENTS
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving, in an event management unit, a plurality of network events associated with one or more devices on a network;
determining that attributes of the plurality of network events match criteria indicated in one or more filters of the event management unit, wherein the attributes of the network event comprise at least one of a network resource identifier, an event identifier, a time stamp, failure information, topological data, and a network location;
grouping the plurality of network events in accordance with the one or more filters;
determining a first time and a second time for each of the plurality of network events, wherein the first and second times represent, at least one of, arrival of events, status changes, event start times, event end times, first occurrence of events, and last occurrence of events; and
displaying the grouped plurality of network events, in a network event viewer, along a timeline based on the first and second times.
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Abstract
Components and functionality can be implemented in an event management application to display events along a timeline. A display interval can be configured for the timeline and a scroll bar can allow scrolling to view different time periods on the timeline. In addition, filters may be applied to the events, so that relationships between events may be visualized. For example, the events may be filtered by network resource name, so that groups of events related to each network resource can be grouped together along the timeline.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, in an event management unit, a plurality of network events associated with one or more devices on a network; determining that attributes of the plurality of network events match criteria indicated in one or more filters of the event management unit, wherein the attributes of the network event comprise at least one of a network resource identifier, an event identifier, a time stamp, failure information, topological data, and a network location; grouping the plurality of network events in accordance with the one or more filters; determining a first time and a second time for each of the plurality of network events, wherein the first and second times represent, at least one of, arrival of events, status changes, event start times, event end times, first occurrence of events, and last occurrence of events; and displaying the grouped plurality of network events, in a network event viewer, along a timeline based on the first and second times. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computer program product for enhancing visualization of relationships and temporal proximity between events, the computer program product comprising:
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a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising; computer usable program code configured to, receive, in an event management unit, a plurality of network events associated with one or more devices on a network; determine that attributes of the plurality of network events match criteria indicated in one or more filters of the event management unit, wherein the attributes of the network event comprise at least one of a network resource identifier, an event identifier, a time stamp, failure information, topological data, and a network location; group the plurality of network events in accordance with the one or more filters; determine a first time and a second time for each of the plurality of network events, wherein the first and second times represent, at least one of, arrival of events, status changes, event start times, event end times, first occurrence of events, and last occurrence of events; and display the grouped plurality of network events, in a network event viewer, along a timeline based on the first and second times. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for electronically managing components of a network, the system comprising:
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a network device configured to transmit, over the network, events indicating operational status of the network device; an event management unit configured to receive the events over the network, the event management unit including, a database to store the events; one or more filters configured to group the events; a network event viewer to receive the events from the database and to present the events along a timeline according to the one or more filters. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. An apparatus comprising:
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one or more processing units; a network interface; and an event management unit configured to, receive a plurality of network events from a network; determine that attributes of the plurality of network events match criteria indicated in one or more filters, wherein the attributes of the network event comprise at least one of a network resource name, an event type, a time stamp, failure information, topology data, and a network location; group the plurality of network events in accordance with the one or more filters; determine a first time and an second time for each of the plurality of network events, wherein the first and second times represent, at least one of, arrival of events, status changes, event start times, event end times, first occurrence of events, and last occurrence of events; and display the grouped plurality of network events, in a network event viewer, along a timeline based on the first and second times. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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