Patent ID: 8370110

Claim:
A method of measuring performance of a performance measuring tool, the method comprising: the performance measuring tool performing acquisition operations on a first set of network data associated with a first network component; performing a calculation on the first set of network data associated with a first network component; storing the first set of network data and performance metrics in a first storage location; displaying the first set of performance metrics stored in the first storage location; time stamping all the operations performed in one or more of the acquisition, calculation and storing functions; storing each operation details and time stamp in a log file; acquiring time stamped data associated with one of the acquisition, calculation and storing functions; calculating a second set of performance metrics using the time stamped data associated with at least one of the acquisition, calculation and storing functions; storing the time stamped data and second set of performance metrics in a second storage location; and displaying the second performance metrics from the second storage location.