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US 2013/0173785 A1Published application
Generating Metrics for Networked Devices
OwnerNorman Ari Hirschman, Eric M. Wall +1inventors
InventorsNORMAN ARI HIRSCHMAN, ERIC M. WALL, JOHN W. PIERCE
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Abstract
Groups of network devices may be identified automatically based on interface tags associated with network device interfaces such that network devices within a group are automatically identified, periodically or otherwise, based on an association of one or more common interface tags between the group and the network device interface.
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A method for generating network traffic metrics for a group of network devices, comprising:
- causing association of tags with interfaces representing network devices that belong to multiple, different groups of network devices, each tag identifying at least one of the multiple, different groups of network devices;
- identifying a particular tag that corresponds to and enables monitoring of a particular group of network devices included in the multiple, different groups of network devices;
- identifying, from among the interfaces associated with the tags, a subset of the interfaces that were associated with the particular tag that corresponds to and enables monitoring of the particular group of network devices;
- accessing network traffic metrics measured for each interface included in the identified subset of the interfaces that were associated with the particular tag;
- aggregating the accessed network traffic metrics to determine collective network traffic metrics for the particular group of network devices;
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- storing data representing the collective network traffic metrics determined for the particular group of network devices based on the aggregation of the accessed network traffic metrics.
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A system including at least one processor configured to perform operation comprising:
- causing association of tags with interfaces representing network devices that belong to multiple, different groups of network devices, each tag identifying at least one of the multiple, different groups of network devices;
- identifying a particular tag that corresponds to and enables monitoring of a particular group of network devices included in the multiple, different groups of network devices;
- identifying, from among the interfaces associated with the tags, a subset of the interfaces that were associated with the particular tag that corresponds to and enables monitoring of the particular group of network devices;
- accessing network traffic metrics measured for each interface included in the identified subset of the interfaces that were associated with the particular tag;
- aggregating the accessed network traffic metrics to determine collective network traffic metrics for the particular group of network devices;
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- storing data representing the collective network traffic metrics determined for the particular group of network devices based on the aggregation of the accessed network traffic metrics.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.