System and method for monitoring global network performance
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1. A system for monitoring performance of a global network comprising:
- a poller initiating requests for and receiving SNMP-attribute data from a monitored device across a public wide area network at repeated regular time intervals, wherein the requests include a test indicative of availability of a service on the monitored device;
the poller further accumulating utilization information from the SNMP attribute data, accumulating utilization information occurring in a read-only manner from the device being monitored;
the poller further accumulating utilization information indicative of availability of a service on the monitored device;
a notifier analyzing time-based performance criteria for providing alerts to a user when received SNMP-attribute data meets one or more established threshold criteria for the monitored device;
a database for storing received SNMP-attribute data; and
a graphical user interface to the received SNMP-attribute data stored in the database, wherein the graphical user interface selectively identifies performance and availability of services provided by monitored devices.
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring global network performance across a public Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or private networking through a secure IPSec gateway, and providing a user interface for performance metrics through a secure Internet browser.
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1. A system for monitoring performance of a global network comprising:
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a poller initiating requests for and receiving SNMP-attribute data from a monitored device across a public wide area network at repeated regular time intervals, wherein the requests include a test indicative of availability of a service on the monitored device; the poller further accumulating utilization information from the SNMP attribute data, accumulating utilization information occurring in a read-only manner from the device being monitored; the poller further accumulating utilization information indicative of availability of a service on the monitored device; a notifier analyzing time-based performance criteria for providing alerts to a user when received SNMP-attribute data meets one or more established threshold criteria for the monitored device; a database for storing received SNMP-attribute data; and a graphical user interface to the received SNMP-attribute data stored in the database, wherein the graphical user interface selectively identifies performance and availability of services provided by monitored devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system for monitoring performance of a global network comprising:
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a poller initiating requests for and receiving SNMP-attribute data from a monitored device across a network through a secure IPSec tunnel at repeated regular time intervals, wherein the requests include a test indicative of availability of a service on the monitored device; the poller further accumulating utilization information from the SNMP attribute data, accumulating utilization information occurring in a read-only manner from the device being monitored; the poller further accumulating utilization information indicative of availability of a service on the monitored device; a notifier analyzing time-based performance criteria for providing alerts to a user when received SNMP-attribute data meets one or more established threshold criteria for the monitored device; a database for storing received SNMP-attribute data; and a graphical user interface to the received SNMP-attribute data stored in the database, wherein the graphical user interface selectively identifies performance and availability of services provided by monitored devices. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A method for analyzing service availability via a network comprising:
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identifying at least one computing device under test, the computing device under test providing a service via a network; generating a script having a set of commands, the computing device under test responsive to the set of commands and the set of commands defining a test indicative of availability of a service on the computing device under test; retrieving network gateway information, the network gateway information indicative of the computing device under test and operative to enable connectivity via the network gateway to the computing device under test and being monitored by the test; and accumulating circuit utilization metrics via the retrieved network gateway information, the circuit utilization metrics having utilization information of the service, such that accumulating utilization information occurs in a read-only manner from the device being monitored, accumulating further comprising; iteratively testing, using the defined tests, utilization of the network circuits corresponding to the services; selectively identifying availability of the services provided by the devices being monitored; and aggregating the utilization information indicative of service availability Information. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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