H04L41/0233

SYNTHETIC OBJECTS IN SERVICE MODELS
20210392046 · 2021-12-16 ·

A method for determining a misconfiguration of components in an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure includes decomposing one or more components into sub parts, creating one or more synthetic objects, each synthetic object being associated with a sub part of a respective component, and including the components and the synthetic objects in a model of the IT infrastructure. The method further determines a relationship between a first component and a first synthetic object based on attributes of the first component and attributes of the first synthetic object, includes the determined relationship in the model of the IT infrastructure, and loads a graph of the IT infrastructure in a graph database with the first component and the synthetic object as nodes and the determined relationship as an edge in the graph. The method further determines the misconfiguration of components in the IT infrastructure by identifying components having improper relationships in the graph.

EDGE CONTROLLER FOR A FACILITY

An edge controller may be used for obtaining device data from one or more local devices at a local facility and to provide a representation of at least some of the device data to a remote server. The edge controller may include a network communication port, a cellular communication port and a device communication port. A controller is operatively coupled to the network communication port, the cellular communication port and the device communication port and is configured to receive configuration information and to install the received configuration information on the edge controller. The installed configuration information configures the controller to obtain the device data from the one or more local devices and to send a representation of at least some of the device data to the remote server.

Intent Processing Method, Apparatus, and System
20210377111 · 2021-12-02 ·

Embodiments of this application provide an intent processing method and apparatus, and a system, to improve architecture flexibility and evolvability. The method includes: A management device receives an intent from a requirement device through an IDMS interface, where the intent includes information about an intent object, information about an intent action, and information about an intent-specific parameter, and the intent is used to indicate the management device to perform, on an object indicated by the information about the intent object, an action indicated by the information about the intent action. The management device obtains a configuration parameter based on the received intent. The management device configures, based on the obtained configuration parameter, a network or a service managed by the management device.

System and method of cross-silo discovery and mapping of storage, hypervisors and other network objects

A method comprising: receiving network traffic data from a network traffic monitoring platform, the network traffic data identifying communication between entities of an enterprise network and storage monitoring data from a server-based SAN monitoring platform, the storage monitoring data identifying communication between a software-only server-based SAN and entities of the enterprise network, parsing the received traffic data and storage monitoring data to identify object data and/or metric data, creating a metric table entry from metric data, creating an object table entry from object data linking metric table entries with object table entries, creating a link table entry from the linking of metric table entries with object table entries, for each link table entry, assigning an object performance threshold, comparing each metric table entries to the assigned object performance threshold, if an alarm trigger condition is satisfied based on the comparison, then triggering an alarm event and outputting an alarm notification.

System and method of cross-silo discovery and mapping of storage, hypervisors and other network objects

A method comprising: receiving network traffic data from a network traffic monitoring platform, the network traffic data identifying communication between entities of an enterprise network and storage monitoring data from a server-based SAN monitoring platform, the storage monitoring data identifying communication between a software-only server-based SAN and entities of the enterprise network, parsing the received traffic data and storage monitoring data to identify object data and/or metric data, creating a metric table entry from metric data, creating an object table entry from object data linking metric table entries with object table entries, creating a link table entry from the linking of metric table entries with object table entries, for each link table entry, assigning an object performance threshold, comparing each metric table entries to the assigned object performance threshold, if an alarm trigger condition is satisfied based on the comparison, then triggering an alarm event and outputting an alarm notification.

Modeling Topic-Based Message-Oriented Middleware within a Security System
20220201024 · 2022-06-23 ·

A system and a method for modeling topic-based message-oriented middleware (MoM) are provided. The method commences with connecting with a MoM system and converting information associated with the MoM system into a standardized object model. The standardized object model may include a topic-based node associated with a topic, at least one producer application, and at least one consumer application. The at least one producer application provides one or more messages related to the topic to the topic-based node. The at least one consumer application receives the one or more messages from the topic-based node. The method continues with generating a standardized graph of relationships between producers and consumers over a period of time. The method further includes creating a policy, periodically analyzing the standardized graph for at least one deviation from the policy, and issuing an alert in response to detecting the at least one deviation.

AGNOSTIC DATA COLLECTION PLATFORM

A collector is configured to obtain management data associated with a managed device. The collector formats the management data in a platform independent message and sends to a hardware/Operating System (OS) broker. The broker forwards the message to a hardware/OS agnostic agent, who is subscribed to receive the management data. The agent adds identifying information associated with the managed device to the management data of the message, packages the management data, and forwards the management data to a data collection server or an endpoint device where the management data with the identifying information may be processed by a remote management workflow for managing the managed device.

Methods and apparatus for optimizing bandwidth consumption in support of intense network-wise health assessment

This disclosure describes techniques for providing a network diagnostic system with on-premise node processing and cloud node processing to optimize bandwidth usage and decrease memory footprint. The on-premise node may receive streaming telemetry from connected network devices and encode to the telemetry data into filtered data objects. The on-premise node may determine whether the state of a network device has changed to determine to push the filtered data object to a cloud node for further diagnostic analysis. The cloud node may include a gateway and a pool of proxy servers, wherein each proxy server is designated to perform diagnostic analysis on a single product type.

Methods and apparatus for optimizing bandwidth consumption in support of intense network-wise health assessment

This disclosure describes techniques for providing a network diagnostic system with on-premise node processing and cloud node processing to optimize bandwidth usage and decrease memory footprint. The on-premise node may receive streaming telemetry from connected network devices and encode to the telemetry data into filtered data objects. The on-premise node may determine whether the state of a network device has changed to determine to push the filtered data object to a cloud node for further diagnostic analysis. The cloud node may include a gateway and a pool of proxy servers, wherein each proxy server is designated to perform diagnostic analysis on a single product type.

Management Model for Node Fault Management
20220166671 · 2022-05-26 ·

In a network Fault Management (FM) model, network equipment (160) maintains a ManagedElement object (12). The ManagcdElcmcnt object contains one or more ManagedFunction objects (14, 22, 24, 26) with each ManagedFunction object (16) comprising an FMControl object specifying the capabilities of the ManagedFunction objects to produce, report, and log fault reports, a Fault Type List object (18) listing the various types of faults the ManagedFunction object can detect, report, and log, and a currentFaultList object (20) listing the current faults and associated fault information. The FMControl object further includes several attributes tliat arc set by a Management System (30) to control the reading of fault reports as well as the sending of the fault reports to other interested network nodes (190).