Intelligent network management device and method of managing network
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChih-Wen Chao, Cheng-Ta Lee, Wei-Shiau Suen, Ming-Hsun Wu
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Abstract
An intelligent network management device including an analytic unit, conducting an analysis according to received packets in order to determine whether a given event is occurred; and a processing unit, generating and sending a control instruction to a SDN controller to change configurations of a SDN switch when the analytic unit determined the given event has been occurred.
Claims16
An intelligent network management device, disposed in a software-defined network (SDN) and connected to a SDN switch and connected to a SDN controller configured to control the SDN switch via a flow table of the SDN switch, the intelligent network management device comprising an analytic unit portion and a processing unit portion, wherein:
- the analytic unit portion of the intelligent network management device is configured to conduct an analysis according to packets received by the intelligent network management device via the SDN switch to determine whether a given event has occurred and notify the processing unit portion of the intelligent network management device when the given event is determined to have occurred;
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- the processing unit portion of the intelligent network management device is configured to generate and send an instruction to the SDN controller to change configurations of the SDN switch flow table of the SDN switch when the analytic unit portion of the intelligent network management device determines that the given event has occurred.
A network management method, used in an intelligent network management device comprising an analytic unit configured to conduct an analysis according to packets received by the intelligent network management device via a software-defined network (SDN) switch to determine whether a given event has occurred;
- and a processing unit configured to generate and send an instruction to an SDN controller operatively coupled to both the intelligent network management device and the SDN switch and configured to change configurations of a flow table of the SDN switch when the analytic unit determines that the given event has occurred, the method comprising:
- conducting the analysis according to packets received by the intelligent network management device via the SDN switch to determine whether a given event has occurred and notifying the processing unit when the given event is determined to have occurred;
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- generating and sending an instruction to the SDN controller to change configurations of the SDN switch flow table of the SDN switch when the analytic unit determines that the given event has occurred.
A network management method, adopted by an intelligent network management device disposed in a software-defined network (SDN) and connected to a SDN switch and a SDN controller used to control the SDN switch via a flow table of the SDN switch, the method comprising:
- conducting an analysis according to packets received by the intelligent network management device via the SDN switch to determine whether a given event has occurred;
- further determining whether the given event is preferred to be handled by the SDN controller when the given event is determined to have occurred;
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- generating and sending an instruction to the SDN controller to change configurations of the SDN switch flow table of the SDN switch when the given event is determined to be preferred to be handled by the SDN controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.