IDENTIFYING ROOT CAUSES OF NETWORK ANOMALIES

Organization Name

SAP SE

Inventor(s)

Tim Breitenbach of Mitgenfeld (DE)

Bartosz Wilkusz of Mannheim (DE)

Patrick Jahnke of Leimen (DE)

Luke Gain of Morgan Hill CA (US)

IDENTIFYING ROOT CAUSES OF NETWORK ANOMALIES

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18466728 titled 'IDENTIFYING ROOT CAUSES OF NETWORK ANOMALIES

Original Abstract Submitted

Root causes of network anomalies can be identified as follows. A subset of network entities that have experienced network anomalies during a time period are determined based on historical network data. A set of root cause candidates are selected among the plurality of network entities by iterating through the network topology, each root cause candidate being directly upstream of two or more network entities in the subset of network entities that have experienced network anomalies according to the network topology. Network entities that are root causes of the network anomalies are identified by removing root cause candidates that have a common upstream network entity that is also a root cause candidate from the set of root cause candidates leaving a set of remaining root cause candidates that are the root causes.