Patent ID: 9225554
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A data processing method, comprising: in response to receiving an indication of a change in quality of services provided by a network device, collecting one or more performance measurements of the network device; by applying a network policy to the measurements, determining one or more operations capable of performing on the network device to enhance the quality of services; in response to determining that the network device is not configured for instrumentation to execute the one or more operations, causing automatic self-configuration of the network device to enable execution of the one or more operations on the network device to enhance the quality of services provided by the network device, the operations comprising one or more of: enabling a deep packet inspection (DPI) analysis on the network device, disabling the DPI analysis, enabling a network based application recognition (NBAR) capability, disabling the NBAR capability, enabling a device configuration analysis (DCA), disabling the DCA, enabling an application execution monitoring (AEM) capability, disabling the AEM capability, enabling a network communication support (NCS), or disabling the NCS; wherein the execution of the one or more operations on the network device causes modifying, by the network device, a type of a quality of services class assigned to a particular application executed on the network device; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.