Identifying critical network and application entities
US7853685B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 10, 2006 |
| Grant date | Dec 14, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 12, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L43/0876
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Critical servers are identified in a network, based upon network flow records collected from the network for a predetermined period. A plurality of rules are applied to application-server pairs based upon the collected network flow records to identify, among the application-server pairs, candidate application-server pairs that satisfy at least one of the plurality of rules during the predetermined period in excess of a predetermined number of times, in which case the application-server pair is identified as a candidate application-server pair. A global application-server list including application-server pairs identified across all of the sources is determined. A critical server list including servers corresponding to the global application-server list is generated. Various network mappings comprised of the servers in the critical server list are created, and network measures corresponding to the mappings are displayed.
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