Real time distributed network monitoring and security monitoring platform (RTD-NMS)

摘要

A platform to support real time passive distributed network monitoring and security monitoring applications wherein the platform will use the open architecture concept for other application developers to add functionality or extend existing functionalities; wherein the platform proposes three new concepts in real time passive network monitoring and security monitoring; the 3-tier monitoring architecture; the innovative buffering technique; and the distributed passive data gathering; wherein each element has intelligence built-in to pre-process the gathered data and reduce the bandwidth consumption between the central coordination server and the distributed monitoring elements; allowing other applications to extend the platform cores through it is available APIs and extension points; and can be easily integrated into heterogeneous network environments running different operating systems due to it is cross platform nature; wherein a central coordination and monitoring server that is locally accessible by the different distributed monitoring elements.