Abstract: Apparatus for monitoring and testing a transaction system, and controlled by enterprise automation equipment. The testing apparatus is programmed with various MIB structures to provide probe points and signals to the transaction system. Responses are received by the test apparatus via check points connected to the transaction system. The test apparatus applies test signals to the probe points in a manner similar to signals applied by users of the transaction system. The responses received from the transaction system are again similar to the responses received by the user in the normal utilization of the transaction system.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for automatically correlating the logical name of devices in a local area network with the hub port used for communication by the named resource. Data for correlation is gathered from three sources. First, logical names and node identification for devices connected to the network is obtained from the resource definition file. Secondly, the frames transmitted over the network are monitored at node identification data and adapter addresses is extracted from those frames. Third, hub port identification data and adapter addresses are obtained from intelligent hubs in the network. The data from these sources is then correlated. The resource name is correlated with the adapter address by matching node identification data from the resource definition file with the node identification data captured from the transmitted frames.