Rapid deployment remote network monitor
AssigneeRed Hat, Inc.
InventorsDavid Parker, Anirudha S. Karandikar, Luke Meyer
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for imaging a network monitor. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving information concerning a customer network to be monitored by a network monitor, and selecting a bootable image for the network monitor using the network information. The bootable image contains network monitoring software and an operating system, and can be booted on any computing device of the customer network. The method further includes providing the bootable image of the network monitor to a requester, and then receiving a fixed IP address of the network monitor from a computing device on the customer network that is designated to host the network monitor.
Claims25
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- selecting a bootable image for a network monitor for monitoring a customer network, the bootable image including network monitoring software and an operating system;
- providing, by a service provider server, the bootable image to a requestor, wherein the bootable image is to be installed on a computing device of the customer network, the bootable image including instructions to cause a certificate signing request to be generated for the network monitor;
- receiving the generated certificate signing request;
- validating the received certificate signing request;
- in response to successfully validating the received certificate signing request, requesting, by the service provider server, a fixed IP address of the network monitor on the computing device of the customer network;
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- receiving, by the service provider server, the fixed IP address of the network monitor having the bootable image installed thereon.
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- providing, to a service provider server, information concerning a customer network to be monitored;
- receiving, from the service provider server, a bootable image that includes network monitoring software and an operating system, wherein the bootable image has been selected for installation on a computing device of the customer network using the provided network information;
- installing the received bootable image on a computing device designated to host the network monitor;
- generating a certificate signing request in response to the installation of the received bootable image;
- sending the certificate signing request to the service provider server, wherein the certificate signing request is associated with transaction identifier that is known to the service provider server;
- receiving a signed digital identity certificate in response to the service provider server validating the sent certificate signing request;
- obtaining a fixed IP address of the network monitor on the computing device of the customer network during the installation of the bootable image;
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- providing the fixed IP address of the network monitor to the service provider server using the signed digital identity certificate to establish a secure session in which the fixed IP address is provided.
A non-transitory machine-accessible storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a first machine, cause the first machine to perform a computer implemented method comprising:
- receiving network information concerning a customer network to be monitored by a network monitor;
- selecting a bootable image for the network monitor, the bootable image including network monitoring software and an operating system, wherein the bootable image is selected using the network information;
- providing, by a service provider server, the bootable image to a requestor, wherein the bootable image is to be installed on any computing device of the customer network, the bootable image including instructions to securely request, by the service provider server, a fixed IP address of the network monitor when the bootable image is being installed on a computing device of the customer network that is designated to host the network monitor;
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- receiving, by the service provider server, the fixed IP address of the network monitor from the designated computing device having the bootable image installed thereon.
A system, comprising:
- a monitor image generator, executable by a processing device of a service provider server, to receive network information concerning a customer network to be monitored by a network monitor, to generate a bootable image for the network monitor, the bootable image including network monitoring software and an operating system, wherein the bootable image is generated using the provided configuration information, and to provide the bootable image to a requestor, wherein the bootable image is to be installed on any computing device of the customer network, the bootable image including instructions to cause the service provider server to request a fixed IP address of the network monitor when the bootable image is being installed on a computing device of the customer network that is designated to host the network monitor;
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- an install and provisioning manager, executable by the processing device and coupled to the monitor image generator, to cause the service provider server to receive the fixed IP address of the network monitor from the designated computing device having the bootable image installed thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.