Network appliance health monitor
AssigneeFortinet, Inc.
InventorJun Yin
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Abstract
Systems and methods for monitoring failures of network devices and identifying potential sources of the failures by a device health monitor are provided. A device monitor receives a usage log of a network device over a network connection and analyzes an abnormal usage of the network device from the usage log. The device health monitor further retrieves environment information of the network device and analyzes a defect of the environment information of the network device by associating the abnormal usage with the environment information. The device health monitor sends a message regarding the defect of the environment information to an administrator of the network device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a network device health monitor, a usage log of a network device over a network connection;
- determining, by the network device health monitor, based on an analysis of the usage log whether an abnormal usage issue has occurred within the network device;
- retrieving, by the network device health monitor, environment information of the network device;
- identifying, by the network device health monitor, a cause or potential cause of the abnormal usage issue by detecting a potential defect within the environment information and associating the abnormal usage issue with potential defect within the environment information;
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- causing, by the network device health monitor, an administrator of the network device to be notified regarding the abnormal usage issue and the potential defect.
A computer system comprising:
- non-transitory storage device having embodied therein instructions representing a device health monitoring application;
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- one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory storage device and operable to execute the health monitoring application to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a usage log of a network device over a network connection;
- determining based on an analysis of the usage log whether an abnormal usage issue has occurred within the network device;
- retrieving environment information of the network device;
- identifying a cause or potential cause of the abnormal usage issue by detecting a potential defect within the environment information and associating the abnormal usage issue with potential defect within the environment information;
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- causing an administrator of the network device to be notified regarding the abnormal usage issue and the potential defect.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.