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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1999
Geetha Vijayan, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring faults within a computer network. In a preferred embodiment, an event, a host, and a fault monitoring point triplet are received from a monitored network device. A database of valid fault monitoring points is consulted to determine the validity of the event, host, and fault monitoring point triplet received. Responsive to a determination that the event, host, and fault monitoring point triplet received are valid, the appropriate party to notify and the appropriate message to send are determined. The appropriate party is then sent a message alerting them to the network problem. Different parties may be notified depending on the nature of the event or on the location of the event. Furthermore, a new network device may be added without taking down the fault monitoring system by merely adding to the database of valid fault monitoring points a new fault monitoring point corresponding to the added network device.