Patent ID: 6892227

Claim:
A method for analyzing a network utilizing a host controller, comprising: (a) accumulating network traffic information; (b) tracking a predetermined interval setting; (c) polling for the receipt of a demand over a network; and (d) in response to the demand or the cessation of the predetermined interval setting, transmitting the network traffic information to a zone controller; wherein enterprise latency mapping is performed, where at least one zone controller chooses a port number associated with an application and pushes a configuration request to a plurality of the host controllers in an associated zone, and the host controllers push the configuration requests to a plurality of agents so that the agents begin to monitor a port associated with the port number, such that monitor data is sent from the agents to the host controllers and buffered, whereafter the host controllers update the at least one zone controller with consolidated monitor data, where differences in delay times are calculated to construct a picture of latency throughout an enterprise; wherein a man of a network is generated based on the network traffic information; wherein intrusion detection services are provided based on the network traffic information.