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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2004
David A. Choiniere, Attleborough, MA (US);
Timothy J. Knight, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Darren J. Hayduk, Wilmington, MA (US);
Venu G. Moogala, Marlborough, MA (US);
Mark E. Pawela, Hopkinton, MA (US);
David A. Choiniere, Attleborough, MA (US);
Timothy J. Knight, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Darren J. Hayduk, Wilmington, MA (US);
Venu G. Moogala, Marlborough, MA (US);
Mark E. Pawela, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for performing health check requests on one or more network devices or network resources. The method and apparatus provide a build tool for building a health check request having an extensible data format adaptable to a protocol supported by the network device or network resource of concern. The health check request can be built using data captured from a unit of network traffic on a transmission medium or with data provided via a user interface, or a combination of both. A health check request built using the method or apparatus can support any protocol including proprietary protocols avoiding the need for a requestor to learn a protocol format in order to build a health check request checking an operational characteristic of a network device or network resource. The method and apparatus allow this to be accomplished using data captured from a successful transaction.