Patent ID: 6658585
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: B60R,B60W,G06F,G08B,H04L

Abstract:
A method for device monitoring comprising:installing a simple network management protocol exception sentinel on a monitor server; configuring the exception sentinel to monitor at least one simple network management protocol capable device; generating at least one virtual device identifier associated with at least one of the monitored devices; receiving, from the device, simple network management protocol data at the exception sentinel; processing the simple network management protocol data at the exception sentinel based on configuration data; communicating sentinel data to an operations center, the sentinel data being based on the received simple network management protocol data; and alerting, from the operations center, an alert contact in response to the sentinel data received at the operations center; wherein configuring the exception sentinel comprises: determining a respective type associated with the monitored devices; selecting a management information base data set in response to the monitored device type; selecting at least one variable from the management information base data set; configuring the exception sentinel to monitor the selected at least one variable, wherein the sentinel data comprises data associated with the selected variables monitored by the exception sentinel.