Centralized Dashboard for Multi-Datacenter Network Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current application delivery and device management systems lack centralized monitoring and control capabilities, leading to inefficient operations, increased complexity, and errors due to the use of multiple independent tools, which hinder collaboration and visibility across networking components across multiple data centers.
Innovation Solution
A centralized application management system that includes a monitoring module for receiving performance data, a database for storing it, and a dashboard module for displaying traffic levels across data centers, along with a traffic management module for configuring networking components based on user inputs, and alert generation modules for notifying users of malfunctions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent tools are used for application delivery and device management, then specific networking tasks can be performed, but operational complexity increases and collaboration becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple independent networking management tools into a single unified dashboard interface. The system integrates device monitoring, traffic management, application delivery control, and configuration management into one centralized platform, eliminating the need to switch between multiple independent tools and reducing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified dashboard provides multi-functional capabilities to handle diverse networking management tasks including device monitoring, traffic routing, application delivery, and configuration management through a single interface, making the system versatile while maintaining simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent tools are used for monitoring and management, then specific functions can be performed, but collaboration among teams becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges previously siloed team-specific tools into a shared unified dashboard that all teams can access and collaborate on simultaneously, enabling real-time cooperation and eliminating the need for complex inter-tool communication protocols.
3Ease of operation
If device-level operations are performed on management tools, then device control is achieved, but traffic routing among data centers becomes complex and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The unified dashboard acts as an intermediary layer between device-level operations and traffic routing management. It provides centralized control that simplifies complex multi-datacenter traffic routing by abstracting the underlying complexity while maintaining device-level control capabilities.
4Measurement precision
If independent tools are used for monitoring applications, then application-specific monitoring is possible, but single-view visibility across data centers is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines application-specific monitoring capabilities from multiple independent tools into a unified dashboard that simultaneously provides detailed application-level metrics and comprehensive cross-datacenter visibility, eliminating information loss while maintaining monitoring precision.
5Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent tools are deployed, then specific networking functions can be managed, but migration and upgrading become nearly impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The unified dashboard provides a universal platform that can manage diverse networking functions while maintaining a standardized architecture that facilitates future migration and upgrading, as all functionality is accessed through a common interface rather than scattered across multiple independent tools.
6Measurement precision
If device-centric monitoring is used, then device status can be tracked, but application owner and network administrator requirements are not met
Solution Approach 1:
The unified dashboard extends basic device-centric monitoring to provide multi-functional capabilities including application delivery management, traffic routing control, and configuration management, meeting the diverse requirements of application owners and network administrators while maintaining device status tracking.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer implemented method for monitoring and controlling a one or more networking components in a one or more datacenters is provided. The computer implemented method includes (i) receiving, at a monitoring module, a performance data from each of the one or more networking components, (ii) storing, at a database, the performance data received from each of the one or more networking components, (iii) displaying, using a dashboard module, a dashboard that includes (a) a first traffic level managed by a first datacenter, and (b) a second traffic level managed by a second datacenter, (iv) receiving a first input includes a modification of at least one of the first traffic level and the second traffic level displayed in the dashboard, and (v) configuring, at a traffic management module, the one or more networking components in the first datacenter and the second datacenter based on the first input.