Network management apparatus and method for processing events associated with device reboot
Assignee3Com Corporation
InventorsHamish Donald Stuart Martin, Christopher Robert Linzell, Ronan Francois Daniel Grandin, Robert James Duncan
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Abstract
A network management apparatus and method reduces the number of events presented in an event list to a user. In particular, the apparatus and method reduces the number of events, which are generated during the monitoring of a network and may be due to rebooting of a device on the network, presented to the user by determining, upon receiving an event relating to a device, whether a more significant event already appears in the event list relating to the device, and if so, preventing the received event from being presented in the event list to the user.
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A method for reducing a number of events presented in an event list to a user by a network management system, which events are generated by the network management system during the monitoring of a network and may be due to rebooting of a device on the network, the method comprising:
- receiving an event relating to a device;
- determining whether a more significant event already appears in the event list relating to the device, and
- if so, preventing the received event from being presented in the event list to the user.
A method for reducing a number of events presented in an event list to a user by a network management system, which events are generated by the network management system during the monitoring of a network and may be due to rebooting of a device on the network, the method comprising:
- receiving an event relating to a device;
- determining whether the most significant event relating to the device that already appears in the event list is less significant that the received event, and
- if so, replacing the less significant event with the received event in the event list for presentation to the user.
A method for reducing a number of events presented in an event list to a user by a network management system, which events are generated by the network management system during the monitoring of a network and may be due to rebooting of a device on the network, the method comprising:
- receiving an event relating to a device;
- determining whether the most significant event relating to the device that already appears in the event list is less significant that the received event, and
- if so, removing from the event list all events relating to the device that already appear in the event list, and adding the received event to the event list for presentation to the user.
A computer readable medium including a computer program for reducing a number of events presented in an event list to a user by a network management system, which events are generated by the network management system during the monitoring of a network and may be due to rebooting of a device on the network, the program comprising:
- a program step for receiving an event relating to a device;
- a program step for determining whether a more significant event already appears in the event list relating to the device, and
- a program step for preventing the received event from being presented in the event list to the user if the program step for determining determines that a more significant event already appears in the event list.
A network management system for monitoring a network and generating events, the system for reducing a number of generated events presented in an event list to a user, which events may be due to rebooting of a device on the network, the system comprising:
- a processor for determining if a received event is more significant than an event already appearing in the event list, and if so, the processor preventing the event from appearing in the event list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.