System and interface for monitoring information technology assets
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1. A system for monitoring information technology assets of enterprises, the system comprising:
- an application service provider database configured;
to receive performance data from a plurality of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-enabled devices of a plurality of enterprises on a by-enterprise basis responsive to a request from a polling proxy server, wherein;
the received performance data describes performance of the plurality of SNMP-enabled devices and includes application usage data, device metrics, and Internet Service Provider (ISP) performance data across data, wireless, voice over Internet Protocol, and virtual private networks (VPNs) for the plurality of SNMP-enabled devices of the plurality of enterprises; and
the polling proxy server is communicatively coupled with polling servers that perform functions of SNMP data gathering, the polling servers communicatively coupled with the polling proxy server to determine SNMP-enabled devices that need to be polled, the polling servers grouped into polling clusters, wherein each polling cluster has at least two polling servers that enable each enterprise to use a same Internet Protocol (IP) address range for associated SNMP-enabled devices, and that enable unique identification of SNMP-enabled devices, each polling cluster assigned to a virtual firewall system; and
to receive an alert about a prediction of a failure of an SNMP-enabled device from the polling proxy server; and
a user interface to the application service provider database configured;
to display a report showing a correlation of the received performance data and costs associated with SNMP-enabled device performance described by the received performance data for a respective enterprise responsive to receiving an authorized request from the respective enterprise, wherein costs associated with SNMP-enabled device performance comprise an unrealized cost; and
to provide a correlation of virtual private network tunnel sessions across heterogeneous network environments.
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Abstract
An application service provider (ASP)-based interface and system for analyzing performance and costs of respective enterprise information technology assets from the correlation of metrics data of enterprise SNMP-enabled devices.
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1. A system for monitoring information technology assets of enterprises, the system comprising:
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an application service provider database configured; to receive performance data from a plurality of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-enabled devices of a plurality of enterprises on a by-enterprise basis responsive to a request from a polling proxy server, wherein;
the received performance data describes performance of the plurality of SNMP-enabled devices and includes application usage data, device metrics, and Internet Service Provider (ISP) performance data across data, wireless, voice over Internet Protocol, and virtual private networks (VPNs) for the plurality of SNMP-enabled devices of the plurality of enterprises; andthe polling proxy server is communicatively coupled with polling servers that perform functions of SNMP data gathering, the polling servers communicatively coupled with the polling proxy server to determine SNMP-enabled devices that need to be polled, the polling servers grouped into polling clusters, wherein each polling cluster has at least two polling servers that enable each enterprise to use a same Internet Protocol (IP) address range for associated SNMP-enabled devices, and that enable unique identification of SNMP-enabled devices, each polling cluster assigned to a virtual firewall system; and to receive an alert about a prediction of a failure of an SNMP-enabled device from the polling proxy server; and a user interface to the application service provider database configured; to display a report showing a correlation of the received performance data and costs associated with SNMP-enabled device performance described by the received performance data for a respective enterprise responsive to receiving an authorized request from the respective enterprise, wherein costs associated with SNMP-enabled device performance comprise an unrealized cost; and to provide a correlation of virtual private network tunnel sessions across heterogeneous network environments. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for monitoring information technology assets of enterprises, the system comprising:
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a plurality of polling servers configured to periodically collect metrics data from Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-enabled devices of a plurality of enterprises and configured to deliver the metrics data to a plurality of database servers; a plurality of polling proxy servers configured to identify SNMP-enabled devices that need to be polled and communicatively coupled to the plurality of polling servers to collect metrics data from the identified SNMP-enabled devices; a plurality of flow collectors, communicatively coupled with the plurality of polling proxy servers, configured to monitor and process incoming flow data, the processed flow data formatted for the plurality of database servers; a plurality of flow proxy servers configured to maintain and read configuration data for the plurality of flow collectors, and configured to receive the processed flow data from flow collectors and transfer the processed flow data to the plurality of database servers; a plurality of web servers communicatively coupled to the plurality of database servers and configured to provide an interface to the database servers, wherein the interface restricts a respective enterprise'"'"'s access to metrics data from its respective devices, the plurality of web servers further configured to receive a configuration of a real-time cost analysis report correlated to the metrics data from its respective devices and generate the real-time cost analysis report on a web-based reporting screen for an authorized user of a respective enterprise; and a plurality of notification servers configured to check for any scheduled reports and configured to generate alert emails. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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