Patent ID: 7912950
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory physical computer-readable medium holding computer-executable instructions for using an adaptive polling facility in a network monitoring system, the instructions when executed causing at least one computing device to: provide an adaptive polling facility operating in conjunction with a network monitoring facility, the network monitoring facility monitoring a plurality of network elements communicating over a network; programmatically determine whether one or more instances of one or more management objects holding performance statistics related to the performance of at least one of the network elements are supported on an agent for the at least one of the plurality of network elements, the determining: determine, based on said response: adaptively modify the first request programmatically with the adaptive polling facility so as to formulate a second request, the second request formed by modifying the first request based on the presence or absence of the OID associated with the particular instance in said response, the second request directed to each instance of the management object determined to be supported by the agent and not directed to each instance determined to not be supported by the agent; programmatically transmit the second request from the adaptive polling facility to the agent; receive performance statistics related to the performance of the at least one of the network elements from the particular instance of the management object; and store the received performance statistics.