Patent ID: 11870696
Assignee: GFI USA, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a network appliance; and
a contral management and reporting system, coupled to the network appliance, wherein:
the network appliance includes:
a controller capable of controlling data traffic to computing devices in the network via the network traffic appliance that includes a network interface; and
a data collector capable of collecting network traffic data based on the data traffic passing through the network appliance at a normal level from a first set of data sources;

the contral management and reporting system includes a traffic performance analyzer capable of:
monitoring the network traffic data;
determining whether the network traffic data indicates an abnormal condition;

the data collector is further capable of:
running an application on one of the computing devices to collect network data from a second set of data sources to increase the collection of network traffic data when an abnormal condition is detected; and

the traffic performance analyzer capable of is further capable of:
analyzing the increased network traffic data collected.