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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2011
Dipto Chakravarty, Potomac, MD (US);
Usman Choudhary, Springfield, VA (US);
John Paul Gassner, Alexandria, VA (US);
Frank Anthony Pellegrino, Greenbelt, MD (US);
William Matthew Weiner, Rockledge, FL (US);
Yuriy Fuksenko, Rockville, MD (US);
Robert Price, Provo, UT (US);
Dipto Chakravarty, Potomac, MD (US);
Usman Choudhary, Springfield, VA (US);
John Paul Gassner, Alexandria, VA (US);
Frank Anthony Pellegrino, Greenbelt, MD (US);
William Matthew Weiner, Rockledge, FL (US);
Yuriy Fuksenko, Rockville, MD (US);
Robert Price, Provo, UT (US);
NOVELL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
The system and method described herein relates to managing multiple network device connections, collecting event source data from one or more network devices with one or more collectors, filtering the event source data, continuously monitoring the network device connections, controlling raw data collection from the one or more network devices, parsing the event source data into normalized data structures, and managing configurations for the collectors, among other things. Event sources may be physical or logical network devices distributed across a network, including but not limited to, firewalls, routers, biometric devices, mainframes, databases, and applications. The network devices may be sources from which the collectors may receive or request the event source data.