METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING THE LAYOUT OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN APPLICATIONS IN AN INFORMATION NETWORK

摘要

The invention relates to a method for discovering the layout of communications between applications in an information network comprising several pieces of equipment, said method comprising the following steps: a) connection to each piece of equipment in the network, b) acquisition of raw data for each piece of equipment relating to the applications stored in said piece of equipment, c) acquisition of connection data for each piece of equipment relating to each live connection established by an application, d) determining communication paths from the raw and connection data between the respective pairs of applications in said network and e) generating a level 7 layout of said network from said communication paths.