Holographic statistics reporting

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9565079-B1
Application number	US-201313737962-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 10, 2013
Priority date	Jan 10, 2013
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

A system and method for providing real time holographic reporting data of at least a portion of a data center to a user. Initializing a reporting profile of a data center via a network traffic management device, wherein the reporting profile includes a plurality of network sources of the data canter identified by the user to provide reporting information, the reporting profile including a user established policy configured to instruct how to process the reporting information from the identified network sources; receiving reporting information from one or more identified network sources of the data center; compiling the received reporting information of the one or more network sources in conformance with the user established policy; generating network statistics data of the data center based on compiling instructions of the user established policy; generating a report configured to display the generated network statistics data of a user identified portion of the data center.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing real time holographic reporting data of at least a portion of a data center implemented by a system comprising one or more network traffic management computing devices, one or more server devices, or one or more client devices, the method comprising:
initializing a reporting profile comprising reporting fields, an indication of each of a plurality of network sources, and correlation data, the correlation data defining one or more correlated ones of the reporting fields for a subset of the network sources;
receiving reporting data from the subset of the plurality of network sources;
mapping the reporting data to corresponding ones of the reporting fields and the subset of the plurality of network sources;
generating network statistics data based on an aggregation of at least a portion of the reporting data corresponding to the one or more correlated ones of the reporting fields in the correlation data of the reporting profile; and
generating and outputting a report comprising at least the generated network statistics data.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
selecting at least a portion of the network statistics data for presentation in a specific display format.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating the network statistics data further comprises:
applying mapping metadata to the generated network statistics data, wherein the metadata comprises network source data and reporting field description data.

4. The method of claim 3 , comprising:
determining when a specific graphical object associated with the network statistics data is presented in a desired display format;
locating the network statistics data from the reporting profile based on the reporting field description data and network source data, wherein the reporting field description and network source information are mapped to the specific selected graphical object.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the reporting profile further comprises a data policy comprising instructions for mapping the reporting fields to the corresponding reporting data.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the data policy includes instructions to perform a logic operation on data values of the correlated ones of the reporting fields for the subset of the plurality of network sources.

7. A non-transitory processor readable medium having stored thereon instructions for providing real time holographic reporting data of at least a portion of a data center, comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one processor, causes the processor to perform steps comprising:
initializing a reporting profile comprising reporting fields, an indication of each of a plurality of network sources, and correlation data, the correlation data defining one or more correlated ones of the reporting fields for a subset of the network sources;
receiving reporting data from the subset of the plurality of network sources;
mapping the reporting data to corresponding ones of the reporting fields and the subset of the plurality of network sources;
generating network statistics data based on an aggregation of at least a portion of the reporting data corresponding to the one or more correlated ones of the reporting fields in the correlation data of the reporting profile; and
generating and outputting a report comprising at least the generated network statistics data.

8. The medium of claim 7 , further having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform steps further comprising:
selecting at least a portion of the network statistics data for presentation in a specific display format.

9. The medium of claim 7 , wherein the processor, when generating the network statistics data,
applying mapping metadata to generated network statistics data, wherein the metadata includes network source information and reporting field description information.

10. The medium of claim 9 , further having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform steps further comprising:
determining when a specific graphical object associated with the network statistics data is presented in a specific display format; and
locating the network statistics data from the reporting profile based on the reporting field description and network source information, wherein the reporting field description data and network source data are mapped to the specific graphical object.

11. The medium of claim 7 , wherein the reporting profile further comprises a data policy comprising instructions for mapping the reporting fields to the corresponding reporting data.

12. The medium of claim 11 , wherein the data policy includes instructions to perform a logic operation on data values of the correlated ones of the reporting fields for the subset of the plurality of network sources.

13. A network traffic management device comprising a memory comprising programmed instructions stored in the memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions stored in the memory to:
initialize a reporting profile comprising reporting fields, an indication of each of a plurality of network sources, and correlation data, the correlation data defining one or more correlated ones of the reporting fields for a subset of the network sources;
receive reporting data from the subset of the plurality of network sources;
map the reporting data to corresponding ones of the reporting fields and the subset of the plurality of network sources;
generate network statistics data based on an aggregation of at least a portion of the reporting data corresponding to the one or more correlated ones of the reporting fields in the correlation data of the reporting profile; and
generate and output a report comprising at least the generated network statistics data.

14. The network traffic management device of claim 13 , wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions to:
select at least a portion of the network statistics data for display in a specific display format.

15. The network traffic management device of claim 13 , wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions to:
apply mapping metadata to the generated network statistics data, wherein the metadata comprises network source data and reporting field description data.

16. The network traffic management device of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to be capable of executing the programmed instructions to:
determine when a specific graphical object associated with viewing the report on the network statistics data is presented in a specific display format;
locate the network statistics data from the reporting profile based on the reporting field description data and network source data, wherein the reporting field description data and network source data are mapped to the specific graphical object.

17. The network traffic management device of claim 13 , wherein the reporting profile further comprises a data policy comprising instructions for mapping the reporting fields to the corresponding reporting data.

18. The network traffic management device of claim 17 , wherein the data policy includes instructions to perform a logic operation on data values of the correlated ones of the reporting fields for the subset of the plurality of network sources.

Assignees

• F5 Networks Inc

Inventors

• Hawthorne Jonathan M

Classifications

• H04L41/22

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

• G06F3/04815

  Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional [3D], e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object · CPC title

• H04L43/045 Primary

  for graphical visualisation of monitoring data · CPC title

• H04L43/06

  Generation of reports · CPC title

• H04L43/04

  Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation · CPC title