Methods, systems and computer program products for importing data from an edge router to a network management system
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorScott Sheppard
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Abstract
Methods of importing data from an edge router including a plurality of interface types to a network management system include configuring the edge router to export a flat file containing the data at a designated time to a designated network device communicatively coupled to the edge router. The flat file includes data associated with a plurality of different ones of the interface types. The flat file is received at the designated network device. The data from the received flat file is parsed to a format configured to be imported by the network management system at the designated network device. The parsed data is provided to the network management system.
Claims18
A method of importing data from an edge router including a plurality of interface types to a network management system, comprising:
- configuring the edge router to export a flat file containing the data at a designated time to a designated network device communicatively coupled to the edge router, wherein the flat file includes data associated with a plurality of different ones of the interface types;
- receiving the flat file at the designated network device;
- parsing the data from the flat file to a format to be imported by the network management system at the designated network device;
- and
- providing the data that was parsed to the network management system.
A network device, comprising
- a network interface communicatively coupled to an edge router including a plurality of interface types and to a network management system;
- a parsing module coupled to the network interface and to receive a flat file containing data from the edge router at a designated time and to generate parsed data from the flat file that has a format to be imported by the network management system, wherein the flat file includes data associated with a plurality of different ones of the interface types of the edge router;
- and
- an export module to provide the data that was parsed to the network management system.
A computer program product for importing data from an edge router including a plurality of interface types to a network management system, the edge router being configured to export a flat file containing the data at a designated time to a designated network device communicatively coupled to the edge router, wherein the flat file includes data associated with a plurality of different ones of the interface types;
- the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied in said medium, said computer-readable program code comprising:
- computer-readable program code to receive the flat file at the designated network device;
- computer-readable program code to parse the data from the flat file to a format to be imported by the network management system at the designated network device;
- and
- computer-readable program code to provide the data that was parsed to the network management system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.