Automated Log Collection via Cloud Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Configuring network devices to gather logs is challenging, especially for administrators without direct access to the devices, as it often requires manual processes and multiple iterations to obtain the correct logs.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-accessible interface allows users to specify logging parameters for network devices, which are then communicated to a configuration service generating a configuration file. This file specifies a network-accessible location for the device to transmit its collected data, enabling efficient log collection and analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual log collection process is used, then security personnel can obtain logs from network devices, but the process requires multiple iterations and is time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically identifying and collecting relevant logs from network devices before security personnel need to analyze them. The log collection system proactively gathers logs based on predefined criteria and device types, eliminating the need for repeated manual collection iterations and reducing the time required to obtain the correct logs.
2Measurement precision
If security personnel directly access network devices to collect logs, then they can obtain the correct logs, but they require direct access which is not always available
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary log collection system that acts as a mediator between security personnel and network devices. This automated system collects logs from devices and makes them available to security personnel without requiring direct access to the devices themselves, thus maintaining log accuracy while improving accessibility and ease of operation.
3Ease of manufacture
If user manually selects and transmits logs to security personnel, then the process can be completed, but there is no guarantee that the correct log is selected and transmitted
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service functionality where the automated log collection system independently identifies, selects, and transmits the correct logs to security personnel without requiring manual user selection. The system uses predefined criteria and device information to automatically determine which logs are relevant, ensuring both simplicity and accuracy simultaneously.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for monitoring network activity. The methods include receiving at an interface a first logging parameter for a first network device, wherein the first logging parameter specifies how the first network device is to record data associated with the first network device; communicating the first logging parameter to the first network device; and indicating to the first network device a first network-accessible location to where the first network device is to transmit its recorded data, wherein the first network device is configured to record data in accord with the first logging parameter and transmit the recorded data to the first network-accessible location.