Patent ID: 8428004

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a network node having: a plug-and-play module adapted to processing on the network node; a device configuration module adapted to process on the network node; network tools adapted to collect and analyze metrics generated with network transactions occurring a between a client device and or more intermediate nodes; and tests adapted to reside in memory or storage associated with the network node; wherein the plug-and-play module is adapted to interact with the device configuration module to configure the client device and the one or more intermediate nodes to interact with one another in the network transactions, and wherein the plug-and-play module is further adapted to acquire and to selectively submit a number of the tests to the client device and to the one or more intermediate nodes, and wherein the client device initially wirelessly connects to a select one of the intermediate nodes to establish the network transactions; and a network interface device adapted to communicate the network node with a network.