Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for obtaining configuration information for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system provides, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements for including one or more event attributes in the time-series event data of an event stream associated with a protocol classification of the network packets. The system then includes the one or more event attributes specified through the first set of user-interface elements in the configuration information.

Abstract: In a computer network, services are provisioned for a user over the network, typically via a series of messages. Depending on the particular service to be provisioned many network entities may be concerned with the provision of a particular service. However, an initiator of a service request may be unaware of all the network entities concerned with a service provision request. A system which receives a single request for service provisioning from an initiator, determines each network entity corresponding to the request from a common repository of network entities, and applies the operations concerned with the service provision request at each corresponding network entity, allows a service to be provisioned without manually searching and examining the network to determine the network entities concerned with a particular service provision request.