Method, system, and storage medium for collecting SNMP bandwidth data

A computer application, that, when executed by a processor in a computer:

• generates a first text file from a first server and generates a second text file from a second server wherein the first server and the second server access a network device and wherein the first text file and the second text file receive time stamps and an identification of the network device;
• compares the first text file with the second text file to determine data contained in the second text file and not contained in the first text file;
• creates a third text file comprising contents of the first text file supplemented with data contained in the second text file and not contained in the first text file;
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• adds a first interval of time to the first time on a network device for each collection of text files wherein the result comprises a target network device time.

A computer application, that, when executed by a processor in a computer:

• generates a first text file from a first server and generates a second text file from a second server wherein the first text file and the second text file collect data samples in data sampling runs conducted at regular intervals from a network device;
• generates a clean data file by adding data missing from the first text file using data from the second text file wherein the first server is authoritative by default in generating the clean data file;
• queries a control table for each sampling run to determine which server controls data computation activities, the activities comprising generating the clean data file;
• queries the control table to determine whether the first server updated a current run for a given text file;
• determines from the query of the control table that the current run has not been updated by the first server upon reaching a predetermined time limit;
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• updates the control table with an identification of the second server and a current run by the second server wherein updating the control table notifies the first server that control is transferred to the second server.