Ravindra A Shankar

US Patent:

59095504, Jun 1, 1999

Filed:

Oct 16, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/732998

Inventors:

Ravindra Shankar - Cary NC
Frank Maly - Cary NC

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc. - San Jose CA

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

39520057

Abstract:

Heterogeneous resources of an integrated network environment are managed from a single network management station by correlating information pertaining to those resources. The integrated network environment is generally managed by a predetermined application tool executing on the management station that provides an application-centric map of the network for communicating with resources conversant with the application tool. Information pertaining to other protocol-specific resources are overlaid on the map to facilitate monitoring of those specific resources by the application tool. As a result, the station can interactively access the application-centric resources while also obtaining status information from the protocol-specific resources of the network.