Network Event Display via Security and Routing Object Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional reporting tools for network events are too general, leading to user confusion, and too specialized, obscuring relationships in data sets, while also separating policy controls from network events, making it difficult to effectively monitor networks.
Innovation Solution
A system and computer program product that display network events in terms of objects managed by security appliances and routing devices, allowing users to view events in context with policy-defined objects and their relationships, using graphical user interfaces to filter and compare events over time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional reporting tools are made more general to increase flexibility, then user confusion increases and clarity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments network events into distinct categories (security events, routing events, policy events) and presents them in separate, organized sections within the GUI. This segmentation allows the system to maintain general flexibility while preserving clarity by preventing information overload and confusion that would result from presenting all events in a single undifferentiated view.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal dimension to event reporting by displaying events chronologically with timestamps and allowing users to filter by time ranges. This dimensional approach organizes the flexible, diverse event data in a structured temporal framework that enhances clarity while maintaining the ability to handle various event types.
2Ease of operation
If reporting tools are made more specialized to satisfy specific user needs, then relationships in data sets are obscured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple event types (security, routing, policy) and their associated relationships into a single integrated GUI interface. This consolidation allows users to access specialized event information while simultaneously viewing the relationships between different event types, thereby satisfying specific user needs without obscuring data relationships.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal reporting interface that can handle multiple event types and user needs through a single system. The GUI provides multi-functional capabilities to display security events, routing events, policy events, and their interrelationships simultaneously, ensuring that specialized needs are met while maintaining visibility of overall data relationships.
3Adaptability or versatility
If policy controls are separated from network events for specialized reporting, then network monitoring effectiveness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges policy control information with network event data in the same reporting interface. The GUI displays policy events alongside security and routing events, and allows users to filter and analyze events based on policy criteria. This integration maintains network monitoring effectiveness by keeping policy controls and events together while still providing specialized reporting capabilities.
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AI summary
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for displaying network events in terms of objects managed by at least one of a security appliance and a routing device. In use, network events are received. Furthermore, the network events are displayed in terms of objects being managed by at least one of a security appliance and a routing device.