Methods and apparatus for providing adaptive private network centralized management system data visualization processes

• US 10,797,962 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2019
• Issued: 10/06/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Talari Networks Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Talari Networks Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Coleman, Robert A., Schultz, Adam Phillip
• Primary Examiner(s): Zaidi, Iqbal
• Application Number:
  US16/362,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20190253325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/214 Database migration support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/278 Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/33 using certificates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2854 Wide area networks, e.g. public data networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0873 Checking configuration conflicts between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/067 using time frame reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/76 Routing in software-defined topologies, e.g. routing between virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263

Abstract

Systems, methods, and techniques are described for a display management of an adaptive private network (APN). A database is installed in a first node of a centralized management system including a network control node (NCN) coupled through the APN to client nodes. Timing messages sent by the NCN to the client nodes are time stamped according to a first clock in the NCN. A network time is calibrated in the client nodes based on timestamps of data which are correlated to a master time specified by the first node. The APN is polled for user specified data to be stored in the database, wherein the data is associated with a user specified period of time which is correlated to the master time. The user specified data is accessed from the database for display according to a network configuration, a user selected display type, and attributes selected by the user.

Claims

1. A method for display management of an adaptive private network (APN), the method comprising:

installing a database, according to rules that define tables of data, in a first node of a centralized management system including a network control node (NCN) coupled through the APN to a plurality of client nodes, wherein the NCN is separate from each client node including the first node and the NCN administers and controls client nodes within the APN;

sending a plurality of timing messages from the NCN to a client node, wherein each timing message is time stamped with a send time according to a first clock in the NCN;

calibrating a network time in the client node based on an evaluation of an average of send times, an average of arrival times for the plurality of timing messages received at the client node, current time in the client node, and a round trip time between the NCN and the client node, wherein timestamps of data gathered from the NCN and each client node of the plurality of client nodes are correlated to a master time specified by the first node;

polling the NCN and client nodes of the APN for user specified data to be stored in the database in the first node, wherein the data is associated with a user specified period of time of operation of the APN as correlated to the master time and includes statistics regarding operation of the NCN, client nodes, and paths in the APN; and

accessing the user specified data from the database in the first node for display according to a network configuration, a user selected display type, and attributes selected by the user for display of a network map including operating statistics for each path between wide area network (WAN) links.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying the user selected attributes in a graph tree view display for a specified time period of operation of the APN.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

zooming into a sub-period of the specified time period of operation to provide a finer view of the user selected attributes.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

saving, in a named dashboard, the user selected attributes in the user selected display type for a user specified time of operation of the APN, wherein the named dashboard is one of a plurality of named dashboards stored in the database in the first node as part of a user interface for the centralized management system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a graphical user interface displays the APN configuration using tree structures for sites in the APN, connections between the sites, and provisioning of bandwidth for the connections between the sites.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

editing a connection link of a first site in a graph tree view of a portion of the APN; and

displaying a configuration of a second site in parallel with the editing of the connection link of the first site.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein configuration data is used to map the NCN and the client nodes in the APN for display on a network map view, is stored separate from APN monitor data, and is not directly used with graph visualizations of APN operations.

8. A computer readable non-transitory medium storing a computer program which causes a computer system to perform a method for display management of an adaptive private network (APN), the method comprising:

installing a database, according to rules that define tables of data, in a first node of a centralized management system including a network control node (NCN) coupled through the APN to a plurality of client nodes, wherein the NCN is separate from each client node including the first node and the NCN administers and controls client nodes within the APN;

sending a plurality of timing messages from the NCN to a client node, wherein each timing message is time stamped with a send time according to a first clock in the NCN;

calibrating a network time in the client node based on an evaluation of an average of send times, an average of arrival times for the plurality of timing messages received at the client node, current time in the client node, and a round trip time between the NCN and the client node, wherein timestamps of data gathered from the NCN and each client node of the plurality of client nodes are correlated to a master time specified by the first node;

polling the NCN and client nodes of the APN for user specified data to be stored in the database in the first node, wherein the data is associated with a user specified period of time of operation of the APN as correlated to the master time and includes statistics regarding operation of the NCN, client nodes, and paths in the APN; and

accessing the user specified data from the database in the first node for display according to a network configuration, a user selected display type, and attributes selected by the user for display of a network map including operating statistics for each path between wide area network (WAN) links.

9. The computer readable non-transitory medium method of claim 8, wherein a graphical user interface displays the APN configuration using tree structures for sites in the APN, connections between the sites, and provisioning of bandwidth for the connections between the sites.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

providing a display of a histogram of events over a specified time period, wherein the events over a specified time period are retrieved from the database in the first node.

11. The computer readable non-transitory medium method of claim 8 further comprising:

providing a display of a histogram of events over a specified time period, wherein the events over a specified time period are retrieved from the database in the first node.