Service network discovery

In a services delivery network interconnecting network components to associated components via segments depicting a relationship between the components, a method of discovering the services network comprising:

• receiving a designation of a component;
• rendering a graphical depiction of associated components by mapping the relationships between the designated component and the associated components;
• and
• receiving a designation of an associated component from which to map additional components.

In a computer network for providing services to end users, the service provided by a series of data flows between computing components in the network, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having logic encoded as instructions that when executed by a processor, perform a method for mapping a service provided by the computer network comprising:

• identifying flow data indicative of data transported on the data flows, the flow data based on a metric and a value of the metric,
• computing a graphic service mapping of components and segments for providing the service, each of the components connected by at least one segment to another one of the components, the segments indicative of the data flow between the components;
• and
• generating, based on the identified flow data and the computed graphic service mapping, a set of policies responsive to anomalies in the mapped service, each policy based on a particular segment and metric for monitoring, the anomalies defined by alerts indicating a significant deviation in flow data, the deviation based on a predetermined baseline of normal operation of a segment and metric.

A discovery server for mapping a service provided by the computer network comprising:

• a repository for storing identified flow data indicative of data transported on the data flows, the flow data based on a metric and a value of the metric,
• a discovery server executing a discovery application for computing a graphic service mapping of components and segments for providing the service, each of the components connected by at least one segment to another one of the components, the segments indicative of the data flow between the components;
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• the discovery application further generating, from the graphic service mapping, a set of policies responsive to anomalies in the mapped service, each policy based on a particular segment and metric for monitoring, the anomalies defined by alerts indicating a deviation in flow data, the deviation based on a an expected value indicative of need for corrective action.