Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Rahul Bahal

Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj

Hao Lu

Kannan Konath

Pierre Hugo

Nicholas R Von Klemperer

A system and method are provided which facilitate peer-to-peer collaborative network monitoring. The system deploys a network-monitoring agent on a device and discovers peer devices on a same local network absent of receiving a cloud-orchestrated instruction. Responsive to successful direct communication with a server, the device obtains a configuration file, which indicates network metrics to be monitored and a condition associated with a network metric. Responsive to unsuccessful direct communication, the device obtains the configuration file via a peer device. The device monitors the indicated network metrics. If the condition is met, the system performs a predetermined action. Responsive to successful direct communication, the device transmits data associated with the monitored metrics and the action. Responsive to unsuccessful direct communication, the device transmits the data via a peer device, thereby allowing the server to display, in connection with a network topology, aggregated network monitoring data for the network devices.

Mechanism for intelligent and comprehensive monitoring system using peer-to-peer agents in a network

Examples described herein relate to a method for establishing a backup connectivity between a sensor and a management system. The sensor may be deployed in an IT infrastructure and configured to execute a one or more predetermined evaluations for the IT network and generate corresponding evaluation result. Thereafter, the sensor may determine whether a connection between the sensor and the management system via a primary connectivity is unsuccessful. In response to determining that the connection between the sensor and the management system via the primary connectivity is unsuccessful, the sensor may establish a backup connectivity by successfully connecting to an available wireless network using a security credential received by the sensor upon successful verification of public key information of the sensor via an authentication server. The sensor then transmits the evaluation result to the management system via the backup connectivity.

Establishing a backup connectivity between a sensor and a management system

An example method may include blocks to initiate a network performance analysis on the enterprise network; and receive a translated recording from a backend computing device to be executed as part of the network performance analysis. Additional blocks may add the translated recording to a set of tests in a queue to be executed on the enterprise network; and execute a primary set of low-level instructions of the translated recording using a headless browser. Further blocks may in response to a failed result of the primary set of low-level instructions, execute an alternative set of low-level instructions using the headless browser. Furthermore, blocks may, record, in an activity log, results of executing the translated recording, including at least a total execution time of the executed low-level instructions; and upload the activity log to the backend computing device.

Automated network analysis using a sensor

Systems and methods are provided for zero-touch provisioning of devices, such as sensors, on a network. When a device is unable/cannot access a network via Ethernet, cellular, or near field communications capabilities resident on the device, the device can alternatively be provisioned via an intermediate network device, such as an access point using, e.g., Device Provisioning Protocol or Wi-Fi EasyConnect. A cloud-based network management system may receive a device's bootstrapping information during or after manufacturing of the device. Ultimately, the device, via the intermediate network device, is able to communicate with a back-end, cloud-based network insight system from which configuration parameters for the device may be obtained.

Secure and adaptive mechanism to provision zero- touch network devices

Systems and methods are provided for discoverability detection of network services. The present disclosure provides for a cloud-based network insight server that collects performance information of a network and a network agent, communicating with the cloud-based network insight server, that monitors discoverability of network services hosted by devices on the network. The network agent receives configuration information from the cloud-based network insight server and transmits discoverability states of the devices to the cloud-based network insight server based on executing a service discovery process through an access point on the network.

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Rahul Bahal