Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Development, L.p.

Anil A Kuriakose

Swamy Jagannadha Mandavilli

Sunil Menon

Damian Horner

Srikanth Natarajan

Dipankar Gupta

Muthukumar Suriyanarayanan

Kotilingareddy Bhavanam

Venkatesh Mahalingam

Robert Strahan

Andrew Walding

Chris Schleicher

Richard David Lamb

Deepthi Bhushan

Joseph M Odenwald

In an exemplary embodiment, a method for managing a network includes monitoring a network using an interior gateway protocol to detect change in the network, and determining effects of the detected network change on Multi Protocol Label Switching paths in the network. For example, the MPLS paths can be the same as IGP best paths. An exemplary embodiment includes managing a Multi Protocol Label Switching network by discovering edge routers in the Multi Protocol Label Switching network, determining possible combinations of Multi Protocol Label Switching path end points based on services provided within the network, selecting discovered edge routers for observation, based on the determined possible combinations, monitoring the selected edge routers, and determining status of Multi Protocol Label Switching paths in the network based on the monitoring.

MPLS VPN fault management using IGP monitoring system

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing network information, comprising determining one or more pseudowires between nodes in a network; grouping the pseudowires, according to information associated with each pseudowire and one or more predetermined criteria, into one or more groups each representing a virtual private network (VPN); providing a graphical user interface (GUI) displaying information associated with at least one pseudowire participating in the virtual private network.

Method for providing network information

In an embodiment, a network service provider (NSP) operates a provider network to provide VPN services to its customers. A VPN links various customer sites allowing customers to send data between these sites over the NSP network. Each site network includes a customer edge router (CE) while the provider network includes a plurality of provider edge routers (PEs) to communicate with the CEs. The PEs include virtual routing address (VRFs), and the PEs and CEs include interfaces (IFs). A database stores information related to the relationships between the network components (e.g., VPNs, PEs, CEs, VRFs, IFs, etc.), and a management software package (MSP) has access to the database. When a fault occurs, the MSP, based on collected information and information in the database, determines the impacted network components. Other features include classifying the seriousness of the network's faults and representing different faults by a color scheme.

Identifying VPN faults based on virtual routing address and edge interface relationship information

A method is disclosed for managing network nodes, such as the nodes of a network, which communicate via connectivity services of a service provider. An exemplary method includes discovering status and configuration information for each set of nodes grouped by the service provider; and assigning a name to each set of nodes.

Method and system for managing network nodes which communicate via connectivity services of a service provider

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Anil A Kuriakose