US 12,341,672 B2
Logging configuration system and method
Avni Bhupendrakumar Wala, Bangalore (IN); Yogesh Kumar Bansal, Bangalore (IN); Bhaskar Sen, Delhi (IN); Sowri Raju Bathineni, Bengaluru (IN); and Sumit Jindal, Zirapkpur (IN)
Assigned to Sophos Limited, (GB)
Filed by Sophos Limited, Abingdon (GB)
Filed on Dec. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/083,488.
Claims priority of application No. 202211063050 (IN), filed on Nov. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0154981 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 43/08 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 41/06 (2022.01); H04L 43/04 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 43/08 (2013.01) [H04L 41/06 (2013.01); H04L 43/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for monitoring network activity, the method comprising:
receiving at an interface a first logging parameter for a first network device, wherein the first logging parameter specifies how the first network device is to collect data associated with the first network device;
communicating the first logging parameter to a configuration service, wherein the configuration service:
generates a configuration file including a network-accessible location where the first network device is to transmit its collected data, and
transmits the configuration file to the first network device, wherein the first network device is configured to convert the configuration file to a second logging parameter, collect data in accord with the second logging parameter, and transmit the collected data to the network-accessible location.