Patent ID: 7673035
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. In a network management apparatus communicatively coupled to a network, a method for processing network management data and logging events for presentation in an event log display to a user when event conditions are detected during monitoring of a network, the method comprising: receiving a given event condition from the network; logging to the event log display a normal event log entry corresponding to the given event condition, upon a determination that fewer than a first number of event log entries each corresponding to an event condition equivalent to the given event condition have been logged to the event log display during a first time period; logging to the event log display an event log entry corresponding to the given event condition and marking the event log entry as a recurring event log entry, upon a determination that at least the first number of event log entries each corresponding to an event condition equivalent to the given event condition have been logged to the event log display during the first time period; and excluding from the event log display an event log entry corresponding to a particular event condition, upon a determination that (i) a recurring event log entry corresponding to an event condition equivalent to the particular event condition has already been logged and (ii) at least a second number of event conditions equivalent to the particular event condition have been received during a second time period.