Scalable network monitoring system

摘要

A scaleable network monitoring system is discussed. The network monitoring system identifies network monitoring information for the network elements being monitored. By storing only a non-redundant subset of the identified network information in memory, the network monitoring system is able to monitor a much larger group of network elements than is possible with conventional monitoring systems which are burdened by memory constraints. The scaleable network monitoring system also employs a multi-threaded architecture that dynamically spawns an array of multi-technology monitoring sub-systems.

主权项

1. A non-transitory physical medium holding computer-executable instructions for scalable network monitoring that when executed cause at least one computing device to:
provide a network monitoring facility that includes a plurality of monitoring resources, the network monitoring facility monitoring a plurality of network elements communicating over a network with the plurality of monitoring resources, at least one of the plurality of monitoring resources dynamically spawning additional monitoring resources based on a response time of at least one network element in responding to a request initiated by the network monitoring facility; dynamically adjust a pattern of monitoring requests based on a response time of at least one network element in responding to a request initiated by the network monitoring facility, the adjusting interleaving a request to a slower responding network element with requests to faster responding network elements; identify a collection of network monitoring information for each of the plurality of network elements with the network monitoring facility, the identified network monitoring information being configuration and access information for the plurality of network elements and for agents associated with at least one of the plurality of network elements; and programmatically store in memory a non-redundant subset of the collection of network monitoring information for the plurality of network elements.