METHOD FOR OBTAINING LOG INFORMATION FROM NETWORK ELEMENT DEVICE BY NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVER, A NETWORK ELEMENT DEVICE AND A NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVER

• US 20080086561A1
• Filed: 10/29/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2005
• 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: Chen, Yuehua, Yang, Li, DANG, Shujun, Zou, Lan
• Application Number:
  US11/926,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3442 for planning or managing the needed capacity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications

Abstract

A method for the network management server to get the log information from the network element device comprises: firstly, the network element device allocates a section of the memory resource as the log buffer, and stores the log information generated by the network element device in the log buffer; then, the network element device detects dynamically the residual capacity of the log buffer, and when the residual capacity of the log buffer is less than the special threshold, it notifies the network management server to fetch the log information. The present invention can avoid the loss of the log information of network element device to ensure the categoricalness of the log information.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining log information from a network element device by a network management server, comprising:

storing, by a network element device, log information generated by the network element device into log storage space;

when utilization status of capacity of the log storage space meets a predefined condition, obtaining, by the network management server, the log information stored in the log storage space.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, obtaining log information stored by the network element device in log storage space comprises:

reading, by the network management server, the log information stored in the log storage space upon receiving a notification message from the network element device;

or

receiving by the network management server the log information stored in the log storage space Sent by the network element device.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by the network element device, whether remaining capacity of the log storage space is less than a first predefined threshold or whether occupied capacity exceeds a second predefined threshold;

determining that the utilization status of capacity of the log storage space meets the predefined condition if the remaining capacity of the log storage space is less than the predefined threshold or the occupied capacity exceeds the another predefined threshold.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein, there is at least one first threshold or at least one second threshold;

when there are two or more first thresholds or there are two or more second thresholds, each threshold corresponds to one warning level that the network element device reports a notification message to the network management server.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein, the threshold is a percentage value configured with respect to the capacity of the log storage space, or a number of bytes.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein, the notification message sent by the network element device to the network management server is a TRAP message.

7. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

when reading by the network management server the log information stored in the log storage space of the network element device successfully, sending by the network management server, a notification to the network element device requesting the network element device to delete the log information that has been read.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

when receiving the notification sent by the network management server requesting the network element device to delete the log information that has been read from the log storage space, storing, by the network element device, the log information into a local log file, and deleting the log information from the log storage space.

9. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

when directly sending the log information stored in the log storage space to the network management server, deleting, by the network element device, the log information from the log storage space if receiving a reception acknowledgement message returned by the network management server.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing, by the network element device, the log information into a local file of the network element device.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein, storing by the network element device log information generated by the network element device into log storage space comprises:

allocating a segment of storage resource as the log storage space, the storage resource being a permanent storage medium.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein, the method is applied to a network management system in a wireless metropolitan area network.

13. A network element device in a wireless metropolitan area network, comprising a log function entity, wherein, the log function entity comprises:

a log storage module, adapted for storing log information of the network element device; and

a monitoring module, adapted for monitoring and reporting utilization status of the storage space in the log storage module;

14. The network element device according to claim 13, wherein, the threshold warning processing module comprises:

a threshold warning processing module, adapted for notifying a network management server to read the log information from the log storage module based on the monitored utilization status of the storage space in the log storage module;

a determination module, adapted for determining whether currently utilized portion of the storage space meets a predefined condition, and

a notification message sending module, adapted for generating and sending a notification message to the network management server when the currently utilized portion of the storage space meets the predefined condition.

15. The network element device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a log information management module, adapted for storing the log information locally in the network element device, and/or receiving a deletion command sent from the network management server, and deleting log information in the log storage module in response to the deletion command.

16. A network management server in a wireless metropolitan area network, comprising a log information management function entity, wherein, the log information management function entity comprises:

a notification message receiving module, adapted for receiving a notification message sent from a network element device, and sending the notification message;

a log information obtaining module, adapted for obtaining log information from the network management device when receiving the notification message from the notification message receiving module.

17. The network management server according to claim 16, further comprising:

a remote log information management module, adapted for returning a deletion command message to the network element device when reading the log information successfully from the network element device, to notify the network element device to delete the log information from a log storage module.

18. A method for obtaining log information from a network element device by a network management server, comprising:

storing, by a network element device, log information generated by the network element device into log storage space;

notifying, by the network element device, utilization status of capacity of the log storage space to the network management server.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein, notifying by the network element device utilization status of capacity of the log storage space to the network management server comprises:

detecting, by the network element device, the utilization status of capacity of the log storage space;

sending a notification message to the network management server when the utilization status of capacity of the log storage space meets a predefined condition.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein, detecting by the network element device the utilization status of capacity of the log storage space comprises:

detecting, by the network element device, whether remaining capacity of the log storage space is less than a predefined threshold or whether occupied capacity exceeds another predefined threshold;

if the remaining capacity of the log storage space is less than the predefined threshold or the occupied capacity exceeds the another predefined threshold, determining that the utilization status of capacity of the log storage space meets the predefined condition.

21. The method according to claim 20, wherein, there is at least one threshold;

when there are two or more thresholds, each threshold corresponds to one warning level that the network element device reports a notification message to the network management server.

22. The method according to claim 20, wherein, the threshold is a percentage value configured with respect to the capacity of the log storage space, or a number of bytes.

23. The method according to claim 18, wherein, notifying by the network element device utilization status of capacity of the log storage space to the network management server comprises:

sending a TRAP message.

24. A method for obtaining log information from a network element device by a network management server, comprising:

obtaining, by the network management server, log information stored by the network element device in log storage space if utilization status of capacity of the log storage space meets a predefined condition.

25. The method according to claim 24, further comprising:

reading, by the network management server, the log information stored in the log storage space upon receiving a notification message from the network element device;

or receiving, by the network management server, the log information stored in the log storage space sent by the network element device.