Abstract: Information received from disparate individual monitors that are concurrently measuring a predetermined property of a predetermined resource in a network are compared in a reliability computation engine to compute a metric of the degree of similarity between their measurements, and thus to determine a measure of the reliability of one or more of the individual monitors. This information can be used by a provisioning engine to select or reject individual resources for use in meeting service requirements on the basis of the reliability of the reports of their performance, as well as the reported performance itself. Monitors identified as unreliable can also be reported to a fault diagnosis function.

Abstract: Information received from disparate individual monitors that are concurrently measuring a predetermined property of a predetermined resource in a network are compared in a reliability computation engine to compute a metric of the degree of similarity between their measurements, and thus to determine a measure of the reliability of one or more of the individual monitors. This information can be used by a provisioning engine to select or reject individual resources for use in meeting service requirements on the basis of the reliability of the reports of their performance, as well as the reported performance itself. Monitors identified as unreliable can also be reported to a fault diagnosis function.

Abstract: Performance management systems and methods may utilize a plurality of modules. A performance network module may receive a post from a user and cause the post to be displayed on a display, and receive a comment associated with the post from the user and cause the post to be displayed on the display. A report module may generate a report including a question and send the report to the user, and receive an answer to the question in the report from the user and store the answer in a database. A goal module may receive a goal and/or an update to the goal, and update a status associated with the goal. A review module may generate a review including a question and send the review to the user, and receive an answer to the question in the review from the user and store the answer in the database.