Patent ID: 9438493
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising the steps of: subscribing, by a single instance of a network monitoring software running on a server computer coupled to a network, to at least one topic defining a common purpose for a server cluster comprising a plurality of servers configured according to a diversity of configuration settings; decoding, by the server computer, an extensible markup language (XML) file published via data stream by at least one server in the plurality of servers, the XML file comprising: normalizing, by the server computer, the numeric value according to the diversity of configuration settings among the cluster; calculating, by the server computer, according to at least one scoring rule for the sample type, as defined in an XML configuration file, score comprising the numeric value as normalized; rendering, by the server computer, a user interface comprising the score; responsive to a determination that the score is outside a minimum or maximum boundary for a specified period of time, as defined for the sample type in at least one alert rule in the XML configuration file, rendering, by the server computer, on the user interface, an alert comprising: transmit the user interface to a client computer coupled to the network.