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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1997
Malcolm Herrick MacDonald Holloway, Durham, NC (US);
Leo Temoshenko, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for generating unsupported network information indicators for monitoring and managing a network having at least one network manager resident within a network station and at least one network agent resident within a network device. The method and system accomplish their objects as follows. Network parameters of interest are selected. Network parameters accessible by the at least one network agent are determined. And, in response to the determining, the selected network parameters of interest are construed by utilizing the determined network parameters accessible to the at least one network agent.