Patent ID: 8483084

Claim:
A method of monitoring a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices connected to a network, utilizing a monitoring probe stored in a non-transitory machine readable storage device, the method comprising: a) grouping the plurality of CPE devices into at a plurality of groups based on a commonality therebetween; b) setting a first time period for collection of monitoring data for all of the CPE devices; c) setting a plurality of subsets of CPE devices, each subset of CPE devices comprising a different CPE device from each of the groups; d) setting a second time period, shorter than the first time period, for collection of monitoring data from one of the subsets of the CPE devices; e) collecting monitoring data from each subset of CPE device during each corresponding second time period consecutively until the first time period expires and the monitoring data from all of the CPE devices is collected.