Patent ID: 8248934
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for determining and displaying a transaction reset metric of individual transactions between host devices of an enterprise operating over a network, comprising: a network management device configured to monitor data traffic at a point between host devices communicating over the network, the data traffic comprising individual flows between the host devices, wherein the individual flows include individual transactions comprising an exchange of packets, the network management device identifying flow resets that terminate flows between host devices; a processor configured to evaluate the flow resets detected by the network management device by determining whether each flow reset occurred during an incomplete transaction within a flow, resulting in termination of an ongoing transaction within the flow, or merely terminated a flow without terminating an ongoing transaction within the flow, identifying each flow reset that occurred during an incomplete transaction within a flow as a transaction reset, and computing a transaction reset count metric as a sum of transaction resets that occur, wherein the processor is further configured to identify individual transactions terminated by a transaction reset; and a display device configured to display on an individual transaction basis whether or not individual transactions were terminated by a transaction reset and to display the transaction reset count metric for one or more selected portions of the enterprise.