Hub filtering

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10103950-B2
Application number	US-201514832223-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Oct 16, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods may include deploying a probe within a unified infrastructure management (“UIM”) system. The systems and methods may include discovering, via the probe, hubs within the UIM system. Each hub may pass UIM traffic. The systems and methods may include establishing, for each hub, a queue on the hub. The queue may log quality of service (“QoS”) messages that pass through the hub. The systems and methods may include filtering, by the probe, each QoS message. The filtering of each QoS message may be filtering by a filter criteria. The filter criteria may specify an originating system at which the QoS message was originated. Additionally or alternatively, the filter criteria may specify a characteristic of a generating probe that generated the QoS message. The systems and methods may include providing information regarding each of the filtered QoS messages to a monitoring server.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
deploying a probe within a unified infrastructure management (“UIM”) system;
discovering, via the probe, a plurality of hubs within the UIM system, each hub passing UIM traffic;
establishing, for each hub of the plurality of hubs, a queue on the hub, such that a plurality of queues are established for the plurality of hubs, wherein the queue logs quality of service (“QoS”) messages that pass through the hub, such that a plurality of QoS messages are logged by the plurality of queues;
filtering, by the probe, each QoS message of the plurality of QoS messages, such that a plurality of filtered QoS messages are identified, the filtering of each QoS message being filtering by a filter criteria specifying at least one of:
an originating system at which the QoS message was originated; and
a characteristic of a generating probe that generated the QoS message; and

providing information regarding each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages to a monitoring server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filtering of each QoS message comprises filtering by:
the originating system at which the QoS message was originated, wherein the originating system is a hub of the plurality of hubs; and
the characteristic of the generating probe that generated the QoS message, wherein the characteristic is an identifier for the generating probe within the UIM system.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filtering of each QoS message comprises identifying each QoS message that was originated from a specified originating system as one of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the filtering of each QoS message comprises identifying each QoS message that was generated by a specified generating probe as one of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

5. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the queue logs the QoS messages that pass through the hub by queuing each of the QoS messages that pass through the hub in the queue, and
wherein providing information regarding each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages to the monitoring server comprises forwarding an instance of each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages to the monitoring server.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
accessing the instance of each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages at the monitoring server; and
providing a user interface that includes an aggregated list of each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein providing the user interface further comprises:
providing an option to select a particular filtered QoS message from the aggregated list; and
providing additional information about the particular filtered QoS message in response to receiving a selection of the particular filtered QoS message.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein establishing, for each hub of the plurality of hubs, the queue on the hub comprises:
identifying all messages that pass through the hub that include QoS information as the QoS messages; and
logging each of the QoS messages that pass through the hub.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the filter criteria, wherein the filter criteria identifies a plurality of hubs of interest,
wherein establishing, for each hub of the plurality of hubs, the queue on the hub comprises:
establishing the queue on the hub in response to receiving the filter criteria that identifies the hub as one of the plurality of hubs of interest, and

wherein filtering each QoS message of the plurality of QoS messages comprises:
establishing a subscription for the probe to access the queue on each hub identified as one of the plurality of hubs of interest in the filter criteria;
accessing, by the probe, the queue established on each hub identified a one of the plurality of hubs of interest in the filter criteria; and
for each hub identified as one of the plurality of hubs of interest in the filter criteria, identifying a message that satisfies the filter criteria as a filtered QoS message of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the originating system specified in the filter criteria is different from each of the hubs of the plurality of hubs of interest specified in the filter criteria.

11. A system comprising:
a processing system configured to:
deploy a probe within a unified infrastructure management (“UIM”) system;
discover, via the probe, a plurality of hubs within the UIM system, each hub passing UIM traffic;
establish, for each hub of the plurality of hubs, a queue on the hub, such that a plurality of queues are established for the plurality of hubs, wherein the queue logs quality of service (“QoS”) messages that pass through the hub, such that a plurality of QoS messages are logged by the plurality of queues;
filter, by the probe, each QoS message of the plurality of QoS messages, such that a plurality of filtered QoS messages are identified, the filtering of each QoS message being filtering by a filter criteria specifying
an originating system at which the QoS message was originated; and

provide information regarding each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages to a monitoring server.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein, when filtering each QoS message, the processing system is configured to filter each QoS message by:
the originating system at which the QoS message was originated, wherein the originating system is a hub of the plurality of hubs; and
the characteristic of the generating probe that generated the QoS message, wherein the characteristic is an identifier for the generating probe within the UIM system.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein, when filtering each QoS message, the processing system is configured to identify each QoS message that was originated from a specified originating system as one of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein, when filtering each QoS message, the processing system is configured to identify each QoS message that was generated by a specified generating probe as one of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

15. The system of claim 11 ,
wherein the queue logs the QoS messages that pass through the hub by queuing each of the QoS messages that pass through the hub in the queue, and
wherein, when providing information regarding each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages to the monitoring server, the processing system is configured to forward an instance of each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages to the monitoring server.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the processing system is further configured to:
access the instance of each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages at the monitoring server; and
provide a user interface that includes an aggregated list of each of the plurality of filtered QoS messages.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein, when providing the user interface, the processing system is further configured to:
provide an option to select a particular filtered QoS message from the aggregated list; and
provide additional information about the particular filtered QoS message in response to receiving a selection of the particular filtered QoS message.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein, when establishing, for each hub of the plurality of hubs, the queue on the hub, the processing system is configured to:
identify all messages that pass through the hub that include QoS information as the QoS messages; and
log each of the QoS messages that pass through the hub.

Assignees

• Fowler Martin Carl
• Ca Inc

Inventors

• Fowler Martin Carl

Classifications

• H04L43/08

  Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters · CPC title

• H04L43/028 Primary

  by filtering · CPC title

• H04L43/12

  Network monitoring probes · CPC title