Information collecting protocol

摘要

This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for collecting information from a set of network devices. The apparatus for collecting information from a set of devices (2), comprises sending means (17) for sending information requests to devices (2), which instruct a number of devices (2) to respond, receiving means (18) for receiving responses from the queried devices (2), and flow control means (20) to control the number of devices which are queried in one step based on the received responses in order to reduce the risk of a network congestion. <IMAGE>