Patent ID: 7685508
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a request from a system management application to retrieve performance or error monitoring information relating to an operational state of a networked routing system managed via the system management application; generating one or more forms to carry the requested monitoring information from the system; based on the generated one or more forms and responsive to the request to retrieve the monitoring information, pulling the requested monitoring information from the system, wherein the monitoring information cannot be pushed to the system; filling the one or more forms with the pulled requested monitoring information, wherein each of the forms comprises one or more data fields and filling the one or more forms with the pulled requested monitoring information comprises determining if the pulled requested monitoring information for a data field is different from its default setting value, and if the pulled requested monitoring information for the data field is the same as the default setting value, leaving the data field blank; and converting the monitoring information on the one or more forms to a generalized markup language (GML) format.