Patent ID: 8775615
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based apparatus comprising: an SNMP manager to monitor network hardware devices and define object identifiers (OIDs); a Simple SOA Performance Monitor (SSPM) manager to augment the OIDs with service-specific object identifiers to monitor at least one service within an SOA environment and to provide added functionality to the SNMP manager so that the SNMP manager can monitor the at least one service and in addition monitor the network hardware devices and define the OIDs; an SSPM agent associated with the at least one service to collect details pertaining to the at least one service, the details of the at least one service being provided to the SSPM manager, wherein the SSPM manager periodically polls the SSPM agent for the details specified in the augmented OID pertaining to the at least one service, and wherein the SSPM manager in turn provides the details of the at least one service to the SNMP manager; and wherein the SNMP-based apparatus is implemented by at least one computing device comprising a processor and a memory.