Patent ID: 7509330
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a system for application-layer monitoring of communication between one or more database clients and one or more database servers, the system comprising: one or more decoders residing at a decoding layer above a network layer, the decoders residing on a database device at a first network location between one or more database clients residing at one or more second network locations distinct from the first network location and one or more database servers residing at one or more third network locations distinct from both the first network location and the one or more second network locations, the decoders on the database device being operable to: a monitoring application residing at an application layer above the decoding layer, the monitoring application residing on the database device at the first network location, the monitoring application being operable to receive query-language statements extracted at the decoders and record observations on the database messages based at least in part on the query-language statements extracted at the decoders.