Patent ID: 9521045
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for monitoring decommissioned servers, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium for execution by at least one computer processor, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to aggregate information associated with an environment, from a plurality of resources external to a server resource, wherein the plurality of resources external to the server resource provide a historical indication on activities related to the server resource within the environment, and wherein the information is directly gathered from monitoring address resolution protocol (ARP) cache data from a router; program instructions to analyze the aggregated information associated with the environment; program instructions to calculate a baseline of server activity, based on a comparison of network activity from the ARP cache data associated with the environment, which shows decommissioned assets continuing to be active; program instructions to determine whether new information associated with the environment is consistent with the baseline of server activity, wherein network traffic and types of packets from decommissioned assets are used to detect whether new information associated with the environment is consistent with the baseline of server activity; and program instructions to, responsive to determining that the new information associated with the environment is not consistent with the baseline of server activity, identify the new information as a possible misuse and flag the new information associated with unusual server activity.