COLLECTING AND REPORTING MONITORING DATA FROM REMOTE NETWORK PROBES

摘要

A method (60) for collecting and reporting monitored data for network traffic, which has been accumulated by a plurality of remote probes. The method includes making a series of polling requests for lists of monitoring data to each probe (62) and receiving the requested list (64). Each list has traffic count values that are identified by at least a sampling time, a source address, a destination address and a probe identifier. The method also includes calculating the traffic observed by each probe between successive sampling times (66) and apportioning the calculated traffic data among a single set of consecutive temporal intervals (72), selecting the best counts to avoid overcounting and storing the apportioned data in a database (74).