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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2012
Patrick J. Malloy, Washington, DC (US);
Michael S. Canney, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Ryan Gehl, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Marc A. Cohen, Washington, DC (US);
Eric S. Nudelman, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Russell Mark Elsner, Bethesda, MD (US);
Mark I. Schneider, Arlington, VA (US);
Patrick J. Malloy, Washington, DC (US);
Michael S. Canney, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Ryan Gehl, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Marc A. Cohen, Washington, DC (US);
Eric S. Nudelman, Chevy Chase, MD (US);
Russell Mark Elsner, Bethesda, MD (US);
Mark I. Schneider, Arlington, VA (US);
Riverbed Technology, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing captured network traffic data is provided. The invention comprises a plurality of capture agents, each being configured to capture the network traffic associated with one or more applications. Each application is associated with one or more capture agents according to an application profile that is stored and maintained in a capture server. When analysis of an application's network traffic is required, the capture server contacts the corresponding capture agents according to the application profile. The capture server then effects the identification and archiving of the network traffic that corresponds to a user-defined capture condition. A database at the capture server maintains a record that associates the corresponding network traffic with the user-defined capture condition such that the corresponding network traffic can later be retrieved and analyzed using an analysis engine.