Patent ID: 8743876
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to monitor a multicast router comprising a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent and an SNMP database, the method comprising: a) the multicast router receiving via a downstream network interface, multicast data requests made by one or more hosts; b) the multicast router reading data contained in the multicast data request; c) the multicast router storing first data in the SNMP database for a downstream network interface, a multicast group address and a first host that requests multicast data, the first data comprising information of the multicast groups and multicast channels requested by the first host; and d) the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent of the multicast router transmitting to an SNMP control station, using a version of the SNMP protocol, at least a part of the first data stored in the SNMP database.