Centralized Network Management System for Disparate Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network management systems are inadequate for remotely and securely managing multiple disparate networks with different architectures, addressing schemas, and business purposes, as they require special access, are costly, and struggle with overlapping private address spaces and overwhelming event information.
Innovation Solution
A centralized system that uses modular software components to manage networks without requiring dedicated connections or topological changes, employing a 'publish and subscribe' mechanism and Secure Remote Session Transport Protocol (SRSTP) for routing commands and data, allowing for real-time monitoring and management across multiple networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a centralized system manages multiple disparate networks, then management efficiency and cost-effectiveness improve, but network security and access control become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized network management system that acts as an intermediary between administrators and multiple disparate networks. This central system handles authentication, authorization, and access control policies uniformly across all networks, eliminating the need for separate access control mechanisms at each network level and simplifying overall access control complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized management system provides universal access control capabilities that work across all disparate networks regardless of their individual architectures or addressing schemas. A single access control policy framework manages multiple networks, reducing the overall complexity of access control while improving management efficiency.
2Reliability
If specialized access methods are used for each network, then network security is maintained, but system complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized management system implements a universal access control framework that maintains security across all disparate networks through a single system. This universal approach replaces multiple specialized access methods with one unified security mechanism, maintaining network security while reducing system complexity and eliminating redundant security implementations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If separate management infrastructure is provided for each network, then network-specific management requirements are met, but costs and resource requirements multiply
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate management infrastructures into a single centralized management system that can handle multiple disparate networks. By combining authentication, monitoring, and control functions into one system, the patent reduces the quantity of management resources required while maintaining the ability to meet network-specific management requirements through configurable policies.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized management system provides multi-functional capabilities that adapt to different network requirements through a single platform. It can manage networks with different architectures, addressing schemas, and business purposes using universal management functions, thereby reducing the need for separate management infrastructures and minimizing resource requirements.
4Loss of time
If real-time monitoring is implemented across all networks, then problem detection speed improves, but data processing requirements and system load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized management system extracts and filters only relevant event data from multiple networks for real-time monitoring. Instead of processing all generated events uniformly, the system identifies and focuses on critical events that require immediate attention, reducing data processing load while maintaining fast problem detection capabilities for significant issues.
5Ease of operation
If comprehensive network access is provided, then management capability is enhanced, but security risks and exposure increase
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized management system serves as a secure intermediary between administrators and managed networks. It provides comprehensive management capability through unified access while acting as a security barrier that controls and monitors all access requests, thereby reducing security risks and exposure associated with direct comprehensive network access.
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AI summary
Converged network management application and system is provided that delivers a management platform as a service that can view and/or manage all managed networks in the aggregate, or any one of them individually (including individual devices within the managed networks), in a secure and efficient manner, providing continuously available intelligence in real time on the managed networks and systems, and overcoming integration issues including conflicting address schemas, the need to avoid unnecessary infrastructure, and the need acquire all necessary information in real time within applicable memory and bandwidth constraints.