MEZZAZINE IN-DEPTH DATA ANALYSIS FACILITY
A mezzanine adapter based data processing facility provides in-depth data analysis that is presented as a digest of advanced statistics and network measures including latency data, content analysis, bidirectional flow related characteristics, multiple flow related statistics over a count of connections or over a period of time, and the like.
1 . A method comprising:
providing an in-depth data analysis facility;
disposing the facility on a blade-based architecture mezzanine adapter;
analyzing data passing through the mezzanine adapter with the analysis facility, providing a digest of the data; and
presenting the digest for infrastructure service management.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the mezzanine adapter provides a network interface for a blade of the blade-based architecture.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes identifying latency between packets.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes identifying network idle time.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes identifying inter-packet latency variation.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes determining suitability of a data flow for voice over ip.
7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes providing a multiple flow digest.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes determining desirability of a destination.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein desirability of a destination is based on one or more of a count of connections by the same source, a count of connections to the same destination and a count of connections with the same service name.
10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein presenting the digest includes streaming the digest over the network port to one or more recipients.
11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein streaming the digest increases bandwidth requirements of the network port by less than 2 percent.
12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing data includes analyzing a replication of the data passing through the mezzanine adapter.
13 . A system comprising:
an in-depth data analysis facility disposed on a mezzanine adapter of a blade-based server, the in-depth data analysis facility for generating an infrastructure service management-based digest of data that passes through the mezzanine adapter.
14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein the in-depth data analysis facility further includes:
a processing facility for analyzing data;
data digest algorithms for execution by the processing facility;
a memory for storing at least a digest of the data provided by the processing facility;
a network port for connecting the processing facility to a business network; and
a server port for connecting the processing facility to a server.
15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the algorithms are accessible to the processing facility in the memory.
16 . A business service management method comprising:
providing an in-depth data analysis facility;
disposing the facility on a blade-based architecture mezzanine adapter;
analyzing customer service data passing through the mezzanine adapter with the analysis facility, providing a measure of the level of quality of customer service; and
transmitting the measure to a server.
17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the mezzanine adapter provides a network interface for a blade of the blade-based architecture.
18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the measure of the level of quality includes analysis of one or more of latency between packets, network idle time, inter-packet latency variation and multiple flows.
19 . The method of claim 16 , wherein transmitting the measure includes streaming data representing an aspect of the measure over the network port to one or more recipients.
20 . The method of claim 16 , wherein analyzing customer service data includes analyzing a replication of the data passing through the mezzanine adapter.