Method and system for collecting and managing network data

摘要

Some embodiments include a method and/or a system for collecting and managing network data. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are disclosed.

主权项

1. A system for collecting and managing one or more data records of a computer network, the system comprising:
a pipeline pump comprising a first pipeline collector, a first pipeline filter, and a pipeline semantic router, wherein the first pipeline collector, the first pipeline filter, and the pipeline semantic router are configured to communicate with each other; the one or more data records of the computer network comprise at least one first data record; the first pipeline collector is configured to receive the at least one first data record and to discover a first vendor implementation of the at least one first data record; the first pipeline filter is associated with the first vendor implementation of the at least one first data record, is configured to receive the at least one first data record from the first pipeline collector after the first pipeline collector discovers the first vendor implementation of the at least one first data record, and is configured to normalize the at least one first data record into at least one first normalized data record; and the pipeline semantic router is configured to receive the at least one first normalized data record and to make available the at least one first normalized data record to the computer network based on at least one first semantic rule, wherein the at least one semantic rule comprises at least one of: a source of the at least one first normalized data record; a data model of the at least one first normalized data record; one or more routing destinations of the at least one first normalized data record; one or more specific data model elements to include or exclude from within the data model of the at least one first normalized data record; a format of the first normalized data record; or a transmission protocol employed to forward the at least one first normalized data record.