Discovering and aggregating data from hubs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016294658-A1
Application number	US-201514673070-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 30, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods may include deploying a probe within a network infrastructure. The systems and methods may include discovering, via the probe, hubs within the network infrastructure. The systems and methods may include accessing an interface of each hub and retrieving data from each hub. The systems and methods may include aggregating the data from each hub in a database. The systems and methods may include displaying the aggregated data from each hub in a user interface.

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 only UIM traffic; accessing an interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieving data from each hub; aggregating the data from each hub in a database; and displaying the aggregated data from each hub in a user interface, the user interface providing access to data aggregated from all of the hubs of the plurality of hubs with central visualization.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein accessing the interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieving data from each hub comprises discovering a total number of queues present in each hub.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein accessing the interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieving data from the hub further comprises discovering an identifier for each queue present in the hub.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the data retrieved from each hub comprises:
a total number of messages sent by the hub since the hub was activated, a total number of messages received by the hub since the hub was activated, and a total number of messages sent for each queue since the hub was activated.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the data retrieved from each hub further comprises a total number of messages in each queue present in the hub.

6 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
determining whether the total number of messages in a queue present in the hub is greater than a threshold value; and in response to determining that the total number of messages in the queue present in the hub is greater than the threshold value, generating an alert indicating that the total number of messages in the queue present in the hub is greater than the threshold value.

7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining an incoming message rate, which is a rate at which messages come into the hub; and determining an outgoing message rate, which is a rate at which messages leave the hub; and determining an outgoing message rate for each queue, wherein displaying the aggregated data from each hub in the user interface comprises displaying the incoming message rate, the outgoing message rate, and the outgoing message rate for each queue.

8 . 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 only UIM traffic;
access an interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieve data from each hub;
aggregate the data from each hub in a database; and
display the aggregated data from each hub in a user interface, the user interface providing access to data aggregated from all of the hubs of the plurality of hubs with central visualization.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein, when accessing the interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieving data from each hub, the processing system is configured to discover a total number of queues present in each hub.

10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein, when accessing the interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieving data from each hub, the processing system is configured to:
discover an identifier for each queue present in the hub.

11 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the data retrieved from each hub comprises:
a total number of messages sent by the hub since the hub was activated, a total number of messages received by the hub since the hub was activated, and a total number of messages sent for each queue since the hub was activated.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the data retrieved from each hub further comprises a total number of messages in each queue present in the hub.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the processing system is further configured to:
determine whether the total number of messages in a queue present in the hub is greater than a threshold value; and in response to determining that the total number of messages in the queue present in the hub is greater than the threshold value, generate an alert indicating that the total number of messages in the queue present in the hub is greater than the threshold value.

14 . The system of claim 8 ,
wherein the processing system is further configured to:
determine an incoming message rate, which is a rate at which messages come into the hub; and
determine an outgoing message rate, which is a rate at which messages leave the hub, and
wherein, when displaying the aggregated data from each hub in the user interface, the processing system is configured to:
display the incoming message rate and the outgoing message rate.

15 . A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
computer readable program code configured to deploy a probe within a unified infrastructure management (UIM) system;
computer readable program code configured to discover, via the probe, a plurality of hubs within the UIM system, each hub passing only UIM traffic;
computer readable program code configured to access an interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieve data from each hub;
computer readable program code configured to aggregate the data from each hub in a database; and
computer readable program code configured to display the aggregated data from each hub in a user interface, the user interface providing access to data aggregated from all of the hubs of the plurality of hubs with central visualization

16 . The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the computer readable program code configured to access the interface of each hub of the plurality of hubs and retrieve data from each hub comprises:
computer readable program code configured to discover a total number of queues present in each hub; and computer readable program code configured to discover an identifier for each queue present in the hub.

17 . The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the data retrieved from each hub comprises:
a total number of messages sent by the hub since the hub was activated, a total number of messages received by the hub since the hub was activated, and a total number of messages sent for each queue since the hub was activated.

18 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the data retrieved from each hub further comprises a total number of messages in each queue present in the hub.

19 . The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the computer readable program code further comprises:
computer readable program code configured to determine whether the total number of messages in a queue present in the hub is greater than a threshold value; and computer readable program code configured to, in response to determining that the total number of messages in the queue present in the hub is greater than the threshold value, generate an alert indicating that the total number of messages in the queue present in the hub is greater than the threshold value.

20 . The computer program product of claim 15 ,
wherein the computer readable program code further comprises:
computer readable program code configured to determine an incoming message rate, which is a rate at which messages come into the hub; a
computer readable program c

Assignees

• Fowler Martin Carl
• Ca Inc

Inventors

• Fowler Martin Carl

Classifications

• H04L43/0894 Primary

  Packet rate · CPC title

• H04L41/22

  comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• H04L43/045

  for graphical visualisation of monitoring data · CPC title

• H04L43/062

  related to network traffic · CPC title

• H04L43/12

  Network monitoring probes · CPC title