Patent ID: 8332511

Claim:
A method, comprising: verifying, by a network element, a storage capacity of the network element coupled to a plurality of end devices over a network connection; executing, by the network element, a master scheduling script provided in the network element, the network element configured for exchanging packets in a network environment, wherein the master scheduling script is configured to: parse a seed file that contains selected end devices of the plurality of end devices from which data is to be retrieved, and spawn, for each selected end device contained in the seed file, a collector control script; wherein the data is Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) data associated with the end device; for each of the spawned collector control scripts, executing, by the network element, the collector control script to initiate a collection of data from the corresponding end device; receiving, by the network element, the data from each selected end device; and communicating, by the network element and based on the verifying, the received data collected from each end device to a next destination.