Event logging techniques for broadband wireless access networks

• US 20060294214A1
• Filed: 06/23/2005
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Chou, Joey
• Application Number:
  US11/166,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20060294214A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

An apparatus, system, method, and article for event logging for broadband wireless access networks are described. The apparatus may include a managed node to store a managed object associated with an event and to provide the managed object to a network management system. The managed object may include an event table to store an event table entry defining an event at the managed node and including an event severity attribute. The managed object may include an event log table to store an event log table entry when the event severity attribute is greater than or equal to a severity threshold. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a managed node to store a managed object associated with an event and to provide the managed object to a network management system, the managed object comprising;

an event table to store an event table entry defining an event at the managed node, the event table entry comprising an event severity attribute; and

an event log table to store an event log table entry when the event severity attribute is greater than or equal to a severity threshold.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the event severity attribute comprises one or more of:

an emergency event, an alert event, a critical event, an error event, a warning event, a notice event, an informational event, and a debug event.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the severity threshold is configurable by the network management system.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein events are created dynamically to meet needs of service providers.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the event table entry further comprises an event notification attribute that determines whether the managed node should or should not report the event to the network management system.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the event notification attribute is configurable by the network management system.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a Buffer wrap-around enabled attribute configurable by the network management system to enable and disable log buffer wrap-around.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the log buffer wrap-around can be disabled to prevent critical events from erasing newer events.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein aging events that pass an event life time can be deleted from a log buffer.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the event life time is configurable by the network management system.

11. A system, comprising:

an antenna; and

a managed node to couple to said antenna, said managed node to store a managed object associated with an event and to provide the managed object to a network management system, the managed object comprising;

an event table to store an event table entry defining an event at the managed node, the event table entry comprising an event severity attribute; and

an event log table to store an event log table entry when the event severity attribute is greater than or equal to a severity threshold.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the event severity attribute comprises one or more of:

an emergency event, an alert event, a critical event, an error event, a warning event, a notice event, an informational event, and a debug event.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the severity threshold is configurable by the network management system.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the event table entry further comprises an event notification attribute, and the managed node reports the event to the network management system based on the event notification attribute.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the event notification attribute is configurable by the network management system.

16. A method, comprising:

storing an event table entry in an event table, the event table entry defining an event at a managed node and comprising an event severity attribute; and

storing an event log table entry in an event log table when the event severity attribute is greater than or equal to a severity threshold.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the event severity attribute comprises one or more of:

an emergency event, an alert event, a critical event, an error event, a warning event, a notice event, an informational event, and a debug event.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the severity threshold is configurable by a network management system.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising reporting the event to a network management system based on an event notification attribute stored in the event table.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the event notification attribute is configurable by the network management system.

21. An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

store an event table entry in an event table, the event table entry defining an event at a managed node and comprising an event severity attribute; and

store an event log table entry in an event log table when the event severity attribute is greater than or equal to a severity threshold.

22. The article of claim 21, wherein the event severity attribute comprises one or more of:

an emergency event, an alert event, a critical event, an error event, a warning event, a notice event, an informational event, and a debug event.

23. The article of claim 21, wherein the severity threshold is configurable by a network management system.

24. The article of claim 21, further comprising instructions that if executed enable a system to report the event to a network management system based on an event notification attribute stored in the event table.

25. The article of claim 24, wherein the event notification attribute is configurable by the network management system.