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Automatic Network Topology Detection and Modeling

  • US 20120275311A1
  • Filed: 04/29/2011
  • Published: 11/01/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A network monitoring system comprising:

  • one or more monitoring probes coupled to network interfaces, the probes capable of capturing data packets from the network interfaces,the monitoring probes further comprising one or more topology analyzers capable of receiving the captured data packets and comparing the captured data packets to a known network element list, the topology analyzers capable of identifying new network elements that are not on the known network element list,the monitoring probes further comprising a probe topology agent capable of receiving data from the topology analyzers regarding the new network elements and resolving overlapping detections of a same new network element from different topology analyzers; and

    a monitoring system server coupled to one or more probes,the monitoring system comprising a server topology agent coupled to probe topology agents on the one or more probes, the server topology agent capable of receiving data from the probe topology agents regarding the new network elements and resolving overlapping detections of the same new network element from different probe topology agents,the monitoring system server further comprising a topology maintenance agent capable of maintaining current network topology information, the topology maintenance agent capable of providing updated network element lists to the probe topology analyzers.

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