Method for implementing network management

• US 20070022191A1
• Filed: 07/12/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miao, Fuyou
• Application Number:
  US11/485,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20070022191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for implementing network management, acquiring network information from the resource manager of the bearer control layer, and then carrying out network management based on the acquired network information and by employing the data transmission between the resource manager and network nodes. By employing the existing resource manager of the bearer control layer and configuring a network management interface on the resource manager, the present invention simplifies such network management as network/service configuration management, accounting management, security management, fault management, and performance management. As the communications protocol between the resource manager and each network node is able to provide high-quality configuration service, the configuration of network node by this communications protocol is highly reliable and complete.

Claims

1. A method for implementing network management, comprising:

acquiring network information from a resource manager of a bearer control layer by a network management system;

carrying out network management by the network management system according to the acquired network information and by means of data transmission between the resource manager and network nodes.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of acquiring network information comprises:

configuring a network management interface on the resource manager for exchanging the network information with the network management system;

acquiring the network information from the resource manager via the configured network management interface by the network management system.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of carrying out network management comprises:

processing the acquired network information by the network management system according to specific demands of network management, and transmitting the processed network information to the resource manager via the configured network management interface;

generating network management commands by the resource manager based on the processed network information, and issuing the generated network management commands to appropriate network nodes via interfaces between the resource manager and the network nodes.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of processing the network information comprises any of:

adding new network information, modifying the network information, and deleting the network information.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the bearer control layer is an independent bearer control layer in a Differentiated Services (Diff-Serv) model.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network information comprises at least one of network information stored in the resource manager and network information which is stored in each network node and acquired by the resource manager.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network information comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of information related to Label Switched Path (LSP), information of Quality of Service (QoS) requests, routing information, and information related to network resource status.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network management comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of network or service configuration management, accounting management, security management, fault management, and performance management.

9. The method according to claim 2, wherein the data transmission on the network management interface adopts SNMP.

10. The method according to claim 2, wherein the bearer control layer is an independent bearer control layer in a Diff-Serv model.

11. The method according to claim 3, wherein the bearer control layer is an independent bearer control layer in a Diff-Serv model.

12. The method according to claim 4, wherein the bearer control layer is an independent bearer control layer in a Diff-Serv model.

13. The method according to claim 2, wherein the network information comprises at least one of network information stored in the resource manager and network information which is stored in each network node and acquired by the resource manager.

14. The method according to claim 3, wherein the network information comprises at least one of network information stored in the resource manager and network information which is stored in each network node and acquired by the resource manager.

15. The method according to claim 4 wherein the network information comprises at least one of network information stored in the resource manager and network information which is stored in each network node and acquired by the resource manager.

16. The method according to claim 2, wherein the network information comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of information related to LSP, information of QoS requests, routing information, and information related to network resource status.

17. The method according to claim 3, wherein the network information comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of information related to LSP, information of QoS requests, routing information, and information related to network resource status.

18. The method according to claim 4 wherein the network information comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of information related to LSP, information of QoS requests, routing information, and information related to network resource status.

19. The method according to claim 2, wherein the network management comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of network or service configuration management, accounting management, security management, fault management, and performance management.

20. The method according to claim 3, wherein the network management comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of network or service configuration management, accounting management, security management, fault management, and performance management.

21. The method according to claim 4, wherein the network management comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of network or service configuration management, accounting management, security management, fault management, and performance management.

22. The method according to claim 3, wherein the data transmission on the network management interface adopts SNMP.

23. The method according to claim 4, wherein the data transmission on the network management interface adopts SNMP.