Arranging management operations in management system

• US 20060020947A1
• Filed: 10/15/2004
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kaappa, Eero, Sahinoja, Mikko, Hallamaa, Mika
• Granted Patent: US 8,073,960 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/317
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/044 comprising hierarchical management structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0813 characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for arranging local operations in a management system, the method comprising: defining a management command addressed to a first node in a management structure of the managed device such that it comprises a command for performing a local operation for a second node of the management structure in the managed device, transmitting the management command to the managed device, defining at least one required local operation on the basis of the received management command, and initiating the defined local operation.

Claims

1. A data processing device for a management system, the data processing device comprising:

a management agent for executing management commands from a managing device,

means for storing a management structure comprising or representing manageable objects,

means for defining at least one required local operation to a second node in the management structure on the basis of a received management command to a first node of the management structure, and

means for carrying out the defined local operation to the second node in the management structure.

2. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the received management command comprises a URI (uniform resource identifier) to the first node and a URI to the second node, and

the data processing device is configured to carry out the local operation to the second node on the basis of the URI of the second node.

3. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the first node is a local operations node associated with at least one local operation, and

in response to an execution command to the local operations node, the data processing device is configured to carry out the associated local operation for at least one managed object.

4. The data processing device according to claim 3, wherein the a sub-node is stored for each local operation, and in response to an execution command to such sub-node, the data processing device is configured to carry out an operation associated with the operation sub-node.

5. The data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the management agent is a service management (SM) agent for executing service management commands from a service management manager, and the data processing device further comprises a device management client for executing device management commands.

6. The data processing device according to claim 5, wherein the received management command is a device management command and carried out by the device management client to the first node,

the service management agent is configured to identify and/or define the required local operation in response to the execution of the device management command to the first node,

and the service management agent is configured to carry out the required local operation for the second node.

7. The data processing device according to claim 6, wherein the received management command comprises a URI to the second node as a parameter of the management command to the first node,

the device management client is configured, on the basis of the received management command, to submit, to the first node, an execution command comprising the URI to the second node, and

the service management agent is configured to carry out the required local operation for the second node on the basis of the URI of the second node in the execution command.

8. The data processing device according to claim 6, wherein

the service management agent is configured to define at least one local device management command for carrying out the defined local operation,

the service management agent is configured to request or order the device management agent to carry out the at least one local device management command and the device management client is configured to carry out the at least one local device management command, or

the service management agent is configured to carry out the at least one local device management command.

9. The data processing device according to claim 5, wherein the device management client is OMA DM (device management) compliant for carrying out OMA DM commands from a device management manager.

10. The data processing device according to claim 5, wherein the management structure comprises a service management level deployment component for which the data processing device is configured to initiate the local operation.

11. A data processing device for a management system, the data processing device comprising:

means for defining management commands for a managed device, wherein the data processing device is configured to define at least one management command to a first node of a management structure of the managed device such that it comprises a command for arranging a local operation for a second node of the management structure of the managed device or at least an indication of the second node to which the local operation is to be carried out in the managed device, and

means for transmitting the management command to the managed device.

12. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the data processing device comprises a service management manager for issuing service management commands to the managed device and a device management manager configured to transmit device management commands to the managed device.

13. A data processing device according to claim 12, wherein the data processing device is configured to define a device management command on the basis of a service management command or primitive for performing the local operation in the managed device, and

the device management manager is configured to transmit the defined device management command for performing the local operation to the managed device.

14. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the data processing device is configured to specify a URI (uniform resource identifier) of the second node to the management command besides a URI of the first node.

15. A data processing device according to claim 11, wherein the first node is a local operations node associated with at least one local operation, and

the data processing device is configured to define in the management command an execution command to the first node in response to a need to perform the local operation to the second node.

16. A method for arranging local operations in a management system, the method comprising:

defining a management command addressed to a first node of a management structure of the managed device such that it comprises a command for performing a local operation for a second node of the management structure of the managed device or at least an indication of the second node to which the local operation is to be carried out in the managed device,

transmitting the management command to the managed device,

defining at least one required local operation to the second node in the management structure on the basis of the received management command to the first node of the management structure, and

initiating the defined local operation to the second node in the management structure.

17. A computer program downloadable into the memory of a data processing device for a management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in the processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

define at least one required local operation to a second node in a management structure comprising or representing manageable objects on the basis of a received management command to a first node of the management structure, and

carry out the defined local operation to the second node in the management structure.

18. A data storage medium for storing a computer program downloadable into the memory of a data processing device for a management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in the processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

define at least one required local operation to a second node in a management structure comprising or representing manageable objects on the basis of a received management command to a first node of the management structure, and

carry out the defined local operation to the second node in the management structure.

19. A computer program downloadable into the memory of a data processing device for a management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in the processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

define at least one management command addressed to a first node of a management structure of the managed device such that it comprises a command for arranging a local operation for a second node of the management structure of the managed device or at least an indication of the second node to which the local operation is to be carried out in the managed device.

20. A data storage medium for storing a computer program product downloadable into the memory of a data processing device for a management system, the computer program comprising a computer program code which, when executed in the processor of the data processing device, causes the data processing device to:

define at least one management command addressed to a first node of a management structure of the managed device such that it comprises a command for arranging a local operation for a second node of the management structure of the managed device or at least an indication of the second node to which the local operation is to be carried out in the managed device.