International Business Machines Corporation
System and method for proactive distributed agent based network diagnosis

Abstract:

A method, system, and apparatus are provided for diagnosing network faults by distributing network test policies to remote devices that issue network tests and report network test results from a first remote device which attempts to access a first network resource over a first specified network path, where a central portal responds to a first network test result by issuing a command to one or more additional remote devices to issue one or more additional network tests for evaluating at least part of the first specified network path and report network verification test results having data which is aggregated with data from the first network test result report for use in proactively diagnosing the network fault in the first specified network path.