Method, system, and computer program product for identifying common factors associated with network threshold violations

A system for identifying common factors associated with network threshold violations, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising the following logics to be executed by the processor;
• logic for identifying one or more network components having a transmission rate exceeding a first threshold as overloaded network components;
• logic for identifying at least one factor attributable to network activity for each of the overloaded network components;
• logic for computing a scaled composite weight for the factor, including logic for computing a proportion of the network activity associated with the factor for each of the overloaded network components, and logic for summing a proportion of network traffic in the overloaded network components associated with the factor;
• logic for identifying the factor as a common factor if the scaled composite weight exceeds a second threshold value;
• logic for storing the common factor in a list of common factors in a tangible machine accessible medium;
• logic for identifying at least two related common factors from the list of common factors;
• logic for generating a first combination including the related common factors;
• logic for determining whether a scaled composite weight for the first combination of the common factors exceeds a third threshold;
• and
• logic for storing the first combination in the list of common factors if the scaled composite weight for the first combination exceeds the second threshold.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, causes said processor to:

• identify one or more network components having a transmission rate exceeding a first threshold as overloaded network components;
• identify at least one factor attributable to network activity for each of the overloaded network components;
• compute a scaled composite weight for the factor by computing a proportion of network activity associated with the factor for each of the overloaded network components, and summing a proportion of network traffic in the overloaded network components associated with the factor;
• identify the factor as a common factor if the scaled composite weight exceeds a second threshold value;
• and
• store the common factor in a list of common factors in the computer readable storage medium;
• identify at least two related common factors from the list of common factors;
• generate a first combination including the related common factors;
• determine whether a scaled composite weight for the first combination of the related common factors exceeds a third threshold;
• and
• store the first combination in the list of common factors if the scaled composite weight for the first combination exceeds the third threshold.