Edge system health monitoring and auditing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11133997-B2
Application number	US-201916426927-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2019
Priority date	May 30, 2019
Publication date	Sep 28, 2021
Grant date	Sep 28, 2021

Abstract

Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and devices for edge system health monitoring and auditing. One embodiment, in the form of a method includes performing a system audit over a first network of devices deployed within the facility to determine a status of each respective device. This embodiment further includes determining an overall system status for the facility based on results of the system audit including consideration of a status of each of the devices deployed within the facility and storing data representative of the overall system status of the facility. This embodiment also transmits at least a portion of the data representative of the overall system status of the facility over a second network to a facility system status monitoring application which may then present a single indicator of the overall system status or health.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a trigger input by a facility system status monitoring application that executes on a dedicated device located at a facility that presents an interface including an indicator of the overall system status of the facility and a selectable item the selection of causes performance of a system audit;
performing the system audit over a first network of devices deployed within the facility to determine a status of each respective device, wherein performing further includes polling an agent of each of the devices for the corresponding status, each agent callable in a same manner regardless of a type of the respective devices, the agents tailored for execution on the type of a respective device on which they are deployed;
determining an overall system status for the facility based on results of the system audit including consideration of a status of each of the devices deployed within the facility;
storing data representative of the overall system status of the facility; and
transmitting at least a portion of the data representative of the overall system status of the facility over a second network to a facility system status monitoring application.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein device data defining the devices deployed within the facility for which a status is to be determined is stored in a database associated by data identifying the facility to which the respective devices are deployed.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein performing the system audit includes:
retrieving at least a portion of the device data from the data for the devices deployed within the facility;
transmitting, over the first network, a device status request to each device identified in the retrieved device data; and
receiving, via the first network, a reply including a device status or not receiving a reply indicating a negative device status with regard to each device to which a device status request was transmitted.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second network is a wireless data service network distinct from the first network.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the interface of the dedicated device includes a selectable item the selection of which causes a command to be sent to trigger the performing of the system audit.

Assignees

• Ncr Corp

Inventors

• Kerry John William

Classifications

• G06F11/3006

  where the computing system is distributed, e.g. networked systems, clusters, multiprocessor systems (multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46; allocation of resources G06F9/50) · CPC title

• G06F11/3055

  Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available (error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operations G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16) · CPC title

• G06F11/327

  Alarm or error message display · CPC title

• H04L43/0817 Primary

  by checking functioning · CPC title

• G06F11/328

  Computer systems status display (G06F11/327 takes precedence) · CPC title