COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING A NETWORK

摘要

Discloses is a computer network system comprising a plurality of network management tools, a network segment comprising a plurality of hardware devices, and a proxy for interconnecting network management tools with the network segment. Each of the network management tools is assigned at least one functionality for monitoring and controlling at least one hardware device which is polled by the network management tools. The functionalities from different network management tools are separate from each other, and the proxy is set up to consolidate requests from the different network management tools and to focus the requests on one single request to the device to be controlled by the different network management tools.

主权项

1. A computer network system comprising:
plurality of network management tools; a network segment comprising a plurality of hardware devices; and a proxy for interconnecting the network management tools with the network segment; the network management tools, each being assigned at least one functionality for monitoring and controlling at least one of said hardware devices which is polled by the network management tools, wherein the network management tools send a multitude of requests to the proxy for information from said at least one of the hardware devices, and the proxy is configured to combine a plurality of the requests from the different network management tools into a single combined request and to send said combined request to said one of the hardware devices to obtain from said at least one of the hardware devices the information requested by said plurality of the requests from the different network management tools; and wherein: each of the hardware devices has an IP address and some of the hardware devices have duplicate ones of the IP addresses; the proxy receives packets from the hardware devices, each of said packets including the IP address of the hardware device that sent said each packet; when the proxy receives one of the data packets from one of the hardware devices having one of the duplicate IP addresses, the proxy changes the IP address in said one of the data packets to translate the duplicate IP address in said one of the data packets to a unique address to enable the network management tools to work with hardware devices with duplicate IP addresses; the proxy includes a database for storing the requests from the different network management tools, a configuration unit for consolidating the requests from the different network management tools into a single bulk request, and a polling unit for initiating the single bulk request on said one of the hardware devices; and the configuration unit compiles the requests to a configuration for the polling unit.