Centralized Troubleshooting Tool for Distributed Virtual Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
In distributed virtual networks, troubleshooting is complicated due to the need to manage multiple physical endpoints, requiring users to remember various passwords, identify logical resources across endpoints, and navigate different command interfaces, which can be cumbersome and error-prone.
Innovation Solution
A centralized troubleshooting tool with an intelligent CLI that provides a single consistent user interface, allowing users to invoke commands across physical endpoints, preloading command history with resolved identifiers, and managing adaptive command timeouts to simplify the troubleshooting process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a distributed virtual network architecture is used to achieve scaling and performance, then the availability and scalability of logical resources are improved, but the difficulty of troubleshooting and debugging the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized troubleshooting tool as an intermediary between the user and the distributed virtual network. This tool provides a unified interface that abstracts away the complexity of multiple physical endpoints, allowing users to troubleshoot distributed logical resources without directly interacting with individual physical devices. The mediator consolidates control and information from multiple PEs into a single accessible interface.
2Ease of operation
If users log into different physical endpoints to troubleshoot the distributed system, then direct access to system components is achieved, but the complexity of managing multiple passwords and identifiers increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple physical endpoint interfaces into a single centralized troubleshooting interface. Instead of requiring users to separately log into and manage multiple physical endpoints with different credentials, the consolidated tool combines access to all PEs through one authentication mechanism and unified interface, eliminating the need to manage multiple passwords and identifiers.
3Ease of operation
If a centralized troubleshooting tool is implemented to simplify user interface management, then ease of operation is improved, but the system architecture complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized troubleshooting tool serves as an intermediary layer that manages the complexity internally while presenting a simplified interface externally. The tool handles the architectural complexity of communicating with multiple physical endpoints, resolving logical resource mappings, and coordinating troubleshooting operations behind the scenes, thereby shielding users from system architecture complexity.
4Productivity
If command history is maintained across different terminals, then user productivity is improved, but the complexity of synchronizing command history across physical endpoints increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges command history functionality from multiple distributed terminals into a unified command history maintained by the centralized troubleshooting tool. This consolidated approach allows users to access and reuse commands across different physical endpoints through a single history record, eliminating the need to synchronize command history across multiple separate terminals while maintaining full command reuse capability.
Data Source
AI summary
A novel centralized troubleshooting tool that enables user to troubleshoot a distributed virtual network with a single consistent user interface is provided. The distributed virtual network being monitored or debugged by the centralized troubleshooting tool includes different types of logical resources (LRs) that placed or distributed across different physical endpoints (PEs). The centralized troubleshooting tool provides functions that allow the user to invoke commands on different physical endpoints in order to collect information about the logical resources running in those physical endpoints. This allows the user to compare and analyze the information from different PEs for a same LR.