公开(公告)号：US07340536B2

公开(公告)日：2008-03-04

申请号：US10054422

申请日：2002-01-22

申请人： Simon Peter Valentine ,  Christopher Robert Linzell ,  Peter Wai Lam ,  Andrew Peter White

发明人： Simon Peter Valentine ,  Christopher Robert Linzell ,  Peter Wai Lam ,  Andrew Peter White

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04Q3/0083

摘要： A network management apparatus and method for determining the topology of a network 1 is described. The present invention uses data relating to discovered devices on the network 1, typically network management address table data, to build a network tree. Due to the presence of unsupported or unmanaged connecting network devices, some branches of the resulting tree may not be resolved. In order to address this, for each unresolved branch of the network tree, the present invention attempts to determine the type of each of the discovered network devices on the branch, and if the type of every discovered network device on the branch is determined to be an endstation type, the present invention determines that an undiscovered connecting device is present on the branch.

摘要翻译： 描述了用于确定网络1的拓扑的网络管理装置和方法。 本发明使用与网络1上发现的设备有关的数据，通常是网络管理地址表数据来构建网络树。 由于存在不受支持或不受管理的连接网络设备，所得树的某些分支可能无法解决。 为了解决这个问题，对于网络树的每个未解决的分支，本发明尝试确定分支上发现的每个网络设备的类型，并且如果分支上每个发现的网络设备的类型被确定为 本发明确定在分支上存在未发现的连接装置。