Connecting network management systems
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsPatrice Palazzolo, Laurent Chavanis
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Abstract
Various embodiments herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software to connect network and system management systems. Some such embodiments include a metric message connector that obtains network entity metric messages from a first network and system management system and communicates the obtained metric message to a second network and system management system. The metric message connector may transform network entity metric messages from an original form into a different form or format, such as a form or format having meaning with the second network and system management system. The network entity metric message may be Simple Network Management Protocol messages.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, via a first network, a metric message from a network entity;
- determining, based on configuration data and data of the received metric message, that the received metric message is to be forwarded to a network and system management system on a second network;
- and
- when the received metric message is to be forwarded to the network and system management system on a second network:
- retrieving a template to populate with data of the received metric message and mapping data that maps metric message data to fields of the template;
- populating the template according to the mapping data;
- and
- transmitting, via the first network to the second network, the populated template to the second network and system management system.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, with instructions stored thereon that are executable by at least one processor of at least one computing device cause the at least one computing device to:
- receiving, via a network, a metric message from a first network and system management system;
- determining, based on configuration data and data of the received metric message, that tie received metric message is to be forwarded to a second network and system management system;
- and
- when the received metric message is to be forwarded to the second network and system management system:
- identifying a format for transmitting data of the received metric message to the second network and system management systems;
- generating a message including data representative of the received metric message according to the identified format for transmitting to the second network and system management system;
- and
- transmitting, via the network, the generated message to the second network and system management system.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor, at least one memory device, and at least one network interface device;
- and
- a first network and system management system stored on the at least one memory device and executable by the at least one processor to receive metric messages broadcast on a first network by network entities;
- a metric message connector module stored on the at least one memory device and executable by the at least one processor to:
- process metric messages received by the first network and system management system to identify, based on configuration data and data of the received metric messages, metric messages to be forwarded to a second network and system management system on a second network;
- and
- for each received metric message identified to be forwarded to the second network and system management system:
- retrieve, from the at least one memory device, an extensible markup language (XML) template to populate with data of the identified metric message and mapping data that maps metric message data to fields of the XML template;
- populate the XML template with data of the identified metric message according to the mapping data;
- and
- transmit, via the at least one network interface device encoded within a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) message, the populated XML template to the second network and system management system on the second network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.