Patent ID: 7711751
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of collecting, recording, and normalizing network performance data, the method comprising: at least one probe receiving from an agent a first set of performance data collected by the agent in response to synthetic network transactions initiated by the agent, the synthetic network transactions being simulated application transactions, the at least one probe receiving a second set of performance data resulting from passively monitoring network traffic, the second set of performance data comprising a second type of performance data, the at least one probe deriving a third set of performance data related to the common data model based on at least one of the first set of performance data and the second set of performance data, the third set of performance data having a third type of performance data; the at least one probe normalizing at least the first set of performance data and the second set of performance data to create normalized network performance data having a single format; and the at least one probe storing, at a computer, the normalized network performance data in a schema according to the common data model.