Patent ID: 11916771
Assignee: EXTRAHOP NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A processor readable non-transitory storage media that includes instructions that are configured to cause monitoring of network traffic using one or more network monitoring computers, wherein execution of the instructions by the one or more networking monitoring computers enable performance of actions comprising:
determining one or more metrics that are included in one or more profiles based on monitoring and mimicking network traffic associated with one or more entities in the network;
determining one or more active probes to include in one or more jobs, wherein the determination is based on one or more occurrences of an activity of interest detected in the monitored network activity;
employing execution of the one or more jobs to use the one or more active probes to collect one or more other metrics for the one or more occurrences of the activity of interest and query one or more of a directory, a service directory, a user directory, a configuration service, or a system database;
updating the one or more profiles based on the one or more other metrics to include one or more responses to the query; and
generating one or more reports that include information associated with the one or more updated profiles.