Network Stability Reconnaissance Tool for Remote Segment Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large server networks face instability and security issues due to unmonitored changes in network components, which can occur without notification to the central console, and current monitoring processes are processor-intensive and unable to adapt to component additions or removals.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves installing a network component on a remote segment that transmits and receives probe packets to identify network components, using diagnostic rules to determine their identity and perform queries to assess stability and security, allowing for real-time monitoring without compromising network performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If exhaustive monitoring of network traffic is performed to identify anomalous data packets, then network security and stability detection is improved, but network performance deteriorates due to processor intensity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and monitors only specific diagnostic data packets from the network traffic flow, rather than performing exhaustive monitoring of all packets. The monitoring process focuses on extracting relevant information about network component changes while leaving the majority of network traffic unmonitored, thus maintaining network performance while still detecting stability issues.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial monitoring by selectively monitoring only certain types of network traffic and components that are relevant to stability detection. Instead of monitoring all network traffic exhaustively, the system performs partial monitoring on selected packets, reducing processor intensity while maintaining effective stability detection.
2Reliability
If inventorying of network components is performed to monitor known components for changes, then monitoring coverage is improved, but adaptability to new components deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where diagnostic data packets provide information about network component changes back to the monitoring system. This feedback loop enables the system to detect and adapt to new components dynamically, as the diagnostic packets carry information about component identity and state changes, allowing the monitoring process to update its knowledge base continuously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary identification of network components through diagnostic data packets before full monitoring is established. By预先 identifying components and their characteristics through initial diagnostic exchanges, the system prepares itself to monitor new components effectively when they are added to the network, improving adaptability to component additions.
3Ease of operation
If centralized process monitoring is implemented by a central console, then network control is improved, but response time to remote changes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary monitoring at remote network segments through distributed monitoring processes. Instead of waiting for changes to propagate to the central console, monitoring is performed locally at remote segments where changes occur, allowing immediate detection and notification to the central console, thus reducing response time while maintaining centralized control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the monitoring function by distributing monitoring processes to remote network segments rather than concentrating all monitoring at the central console. This segmentation allows local detection of changes at remote segments, reducing the time delay associated with centralized monitoring while the central console maintains overall control and coordination.
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AI summary
Apparatus and methods for monitoring a remote network segment. The apparatus may perform, and the methods (apparatus and methods, collectively, “the methods”) may include installing, on a remote segment of a packet switched network, a network component. The methods may include transmitting to the remote segment, from a transmitter on a local segment of the network a probe packet. The methods may include receiving from a receiver on the local segment a responsive packet that is responsive to the probe packet. The methods may include reconfiguring, in response to the responsive packet and diagnostic rules, a network-monitoring machine to recognize the network component. The reconfiguring may be a reconfiguring that is not responsive to a discovery signal that is (a) triggered by a process internal to the network component; and (b) transmitted by the network component.