Event source management using a metadata-driven framework

US9047145B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• NOVELL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Dipto Chakravarty · Potomac, US
• Usman Choudhary · Springfield, US
• John Paul Gassner · Wonder Hills, US
• Frank Anthony Pellegrino · Greenbelt, US
• William Matthew Weiner · Rockledge, US
• Yuriy Fuksenko · Rockville, US
• Robert M. Price · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 14, 2011
• Grant date: Jun 2, 2015
• Expiry date: Jun 14, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L43/045
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The system and method described herein relates to managing multiple network device connections, collecting event source data from one or more network devices with one or more collectors, filtering the event source data, continuously monitoring the network device connections, controlling raw data collection from the one or more network devices, parsing the event source data into normalized data structures, and managing configurations for the collectors, among other things. Event sources may be physical or logical network devices distributed across a network, including but not limited to, firewalls, routers, biometric devices, mainframes, databases, and applications. The network devices may be sources from which the collectors may receive or request the event source data.