NODE MONITORING APPARATUS, NODE MONITORING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20120076001A1
• Filed: 08/19/2011
• Published: 03/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: PFU Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Inventors: MATSUDA, Masaki, SAITOU, Naoki, KAWAHIGASHI, Toshitaka
• Granted Patent: US 9,049,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/241
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/103 with adaptive polling, i.e. dynamically adapting the polling rate

Abstract

There is provided a node monitoring apparatus including: a node identification unit that identifies a function of a node present in a network; a parameter setting unit that sets a parameter for monitoring processing on the node in accordance with the function identified by the function identification unit; and a node monitoring unit that performs the monitoring processing on each of the nodes based on the parameter set by the parameter setting unit.

Claims

1. A node monitoring apparatus comprising:

a node identification unit that identifies a function of a node present in a network;

a parameter setting unit that sets a parameter for monitoring processing on the node in accordance with the function identified by the function identification unit; and

a node monitoring unit that performs the monitoring processing on each of the nodes based on the parameter set by the parameter setting unit.

2. The node monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a relationship identification unit that identifies a relationship of dependence of each of the nodes on the other nodes,

wherein the parameter setting unit sets the parameter for each of the nodes in accordance with its dependence relationship identified by the relationship identification unit and the function.

3. The node monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the parameter setting unit sets the parameter for each node in accordance with its use frequency.

4. The node monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the function identification unit identifies the function of each node by using a plurality of types of protocols.

5. A method for monitoring node comprising the steps of:

identifying a function of a node present in a network;

setting a parameter for monitoring processing on the node in accordance with the identified function of the node; and

performing the monitoring processing on the node based on the set parameter.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing thereon a computer program used in a computer, the computer program causing the computer to perform the steps of:

identifying a function of a node present in a network;

setting a parameter for monitoring processing on the node in accordance with the identified function of the node; and

performing the monitoring processing on the node based on the set parameter.