Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for implementing a log analytics method and system that can configure, collect, and analyze log records in an efficient manner. An improved approach is provided for identifying log files that have undergone a change in status that would require retrieve of its log data, by including a module directly into the operating system that allows the log collection component to be reactively notified of any changes to pertinent log files.

A method of setting up a wireless ad hoc network includes constructing an initial network graph by a source device. The network graph represents the source device, at least one intermediate device, and at least one communication path between the source device and the intermediate device. The initial network graph is sent from the source device to the intermediate device along with an update request. The source device receives a second network graph from the intermediate device in response to sending the initial network graph, and determines an updated network graph by performing a union of the initial network graph and the second network graph. The process is performed by each intermediate device required to reach a destination device.

A gateway apparatus including a first inter-device interface configured to communicate with a monitoring apparatus; a second inter-device interface configured to communicate with multiple subordinate base station apparatuses; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to generate first configuration information when second configuration information is received from the monitoring apparatus via the first inter-device interface. The processor generates the first configuration information by performing protocol conversion of converting the second configuration information into a format adapted to the second inter-device interface for the multiple base station apparatuses. The processor is further configured to transmit the generated first configuration information to the multiple base station apparatuses via the second inter-device interface, and divide the multiple base station apparatuses into predetermined groups. The processor transmits the first configuration information to the multiple base station apparatuses at a different timing for each of the groups.

There is provided a method for generating network optimizing information including the steps of identifying system devices that are comprised in a network, collecting metrics from the identified system devices, including collecting at least one metric relating to the operation, status, capability, limitations, expandability, scalability, or performance of the system devices, assessing the collected metrics according to a predetermined assessment protocol, generating a roster of metrics of interest, such metrics of interest being a group of the collected metrics that meet a selection criteria and not including other collected metrics that do not meet the selection criteria, and presenting each of the metrics of interest in a format suitable for a network operator to take corrective actions with regard to the identified non-compliant metrics or to capitalize on the identified optimization opportunities with respect to the network.

A communication control method is disclosed, including: connecting, by a small cell by using a built-in soft SIM card or an inserted SIM card, to a Uu air interface of a macro cell to access the macro cell; after receiving a broadcast synchronization signal of the macro cell, synchronizing, by the small cell, with the macro cell, and acquiring configuration information of the macro cell; and performing, by the small cell, system configuration for the small cell according to the configuration information of the macro cell. A SIM card is added to the small cell, so that the small cell can access a macro cell in a terminal form, which is equivalent to addition of a Uu air interface between the small cell and the macro cell. Therefore, configuration management, performance optimization, admissible subscriber configuration, and the like are implemented for the small cell by using this air interface.

Methods for balancing storage data traffic in a system in which at least one computing device (server) coupled to a converged network accesses at least one storage device coupled (by at least one adapter) to the network, systems configured to perform such methods, and devices configured to implement such methods or for use in such systems. Typically, the system includes servers and adapters, and server agents implemented on the servers and adapter agents implemented on the adapters are configured to detect and respond to imbalances in storage and data traffic in the network, and to redirect the storage data traffic to reduce the imbalances and, thereby to improve the overall network performance (for both data communications and storage traffic). Typically, each agent operates autonomously (except in that an adapter agent may respond to a request or notification from a server agent), and no central computer or manager directs operation of the agents.

The present disclosure generally discloses a problem event prediction capability. The problem event prediction capability may be configured to predict various types of problem events (e.g., customer problems, customer tickets, customer outages, network problems, network tickets, network outages, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof) based on various types of asynchronous machine data (e.g., alarms, alerts, triggers, machine logs, machine messages, diagnostic logs, diagnostic messages, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof). The problem event prediction capability may be configured to generate a set of problem prediction rules based on historical machine data and to apply the problem prediction rules to observed machine data in order to predict various types of problem events.

The present disclosure generally discloses a testing capability related to service testing in a communication network. The testing capability may be configured to support debugging of failures identified during service validation testing of a service in a communication network. The testing capability may be configured to support debugging of failures (e.g., transmission failures or the like) associated with a failed service validation test (e.g., a transmission verification test or the like). The testing capability may be configured to support debugging of failures identified during service validation testing of an Ethernet service. The testing capability may be configured to support debugging of failures (e.g., frame loss or the like) identified during service validation testing of an Ethernet service where the service validation testing of the Ethernet service is performed based on International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-Standardization (ITU-T) Y.1564, which is an Ethernet-based service activation test methodology.

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises an ingestion manager, a plurality of ingestion engines associated with the ingestion manager, and an analytics platform configured to receive data from the ingestion engines under the control of the ingestion manager. The ingestion manager is configured to interact with one or more of the ingestion engines in conjunction with providing data to a given one of a plurality of analytics workspaces of the analytics platform. For example, the analytics workspaces of the analytics platform are illustratively configured to receive data from respective potentially disjoint subsets of the ingestion engines under the control of the ingestion manager. Additionally or alternatively, the ingestion manager may be configured to implement data-as-a-service functionality for one or more of the analytics workspaces of the analytics platform.

A wireless communication recovery method and a corresponding communication device are described. In the wireless communication recovery method, a connection failure of a radio access technology (RAT) is detected. Further, the detected connection failure is categorized based on a network level at which the connection failure has occurred. The RAT at the corresponding network level is then disabled for a time period based on the categorization of the connection failure and service in the RAT is recovered based on thresholds for the categorized failure levels.