Methods for displaying physical network topology and environmental status by location, organization, or responsible party

摘要

The invention is directed to a system for remote monitoring of a space and equipment. The space and equipment may, for example, be a server room and associated network equipment. The system has network appliances, a server, and a client machine. The server receives data from a network appliance. The server may then deliver an application and data to the client machine for viewing and manipulating the data. The client machine may display the data as a mapping, displaying icons associated with the network appliances. The client machine may also graph the data. Further, the client machine may manipulate the organization of the data, the configuration settings of the network appliances, and store map and graph configurations.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a server communicatively coupled to an interconnected network, the server comprising:
a memory configured to store sensor data gathered from plurality of network appliances; anda processor configured to receive, manipulate, and output sensor data; and a plurality of network-enabled devices, each of the plurality of network-enabled devices communicatively coupled to at least one other of the plurality of network-enabled devices and at least one of the plurality of network-enabled devices communicatively coupled to the interconnected network, each of the plurality of network-enabled devices comprising:
a sensor configured to detect a physical environmental parameter associated with a space and different from a physical environmental parameter detected by another of the plurality of network-enabled devices, the sensor configured to generate a sensor signal associated with the physical environmental parameter; anda processor configured to:
receive the sensor signal;process the sensor signal;provide the sensor signal to the at least one other of the plurality of network-enabled devices; andtransmit a request directly to the at least one other of the plurality of network-enabled devices, the request including instructions for the at least one other of the plurality of network-enabled devices to execute an action.