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Method and management agent for event notifications correlation

  • US 9,032,420 B2
  • Filed: 10/10/2011
  • Issued: 05/12/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method at a first agent in a management network that is one among a plurality of peer agents that report event notifications up to a common manager in the management network, said method comprising:

  • receiving Peer Agent (PA) notifications from one or more other ones of the peer agents in the plurality of peer agents;

    receiving Network Resource (NR) notifications from one or more network resources managed by the first agent;

    determining whether a correlation exists between a PA notification received at the first agent from a given second peer agent among the plurality of peer agents and a NR notification received at the first agent; and

    if the correlation exists, creating a modified notification, said modified notification indicating the correlation, and sending the modified notification to the manager.

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