METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING DEVICE PORT

• US 20080104285A1
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2005
• 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: XIONG, Wei, XIE, Xiqian, XIE, Liansheng
• Application Number:
  US11/967,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104285A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3041 where the computing system component is an input/output interface interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units G06F13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

A device port monitoring system is disclosed by embodiments of the present invention, and the system includes an indicator status tracking module coupled with each distributed device respectively. And the indicator status tracking module is used for generating a tracking instruction according to inputted information for tracking a specific port, sending to a specific device a message to initiate an indicator status tracking task, displaying a status of a specific port returned by the specific device. The device port monitoring system and method in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention use a dynamic registration tracking task to reduce the port monitoring overhead, which makes it convenient to monitor a port. In this way, it is possible to guarantee the real-time tracking and effectively reduce the resource overhead in the case that the amount of port is enormous. The embodiments of the present invention also disclose an indicator status tracking module.

Claims

1. A device port monitoring system, comprising:

an indicator status tracking module coupled with each distributed device respectively, for generating a tracking instruction according to inputted information for tracking a specific port, sending to a specific device a message to initiate an indicator status tracking task, displaying a status of a specific port returned by the specific device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the status of the specific port returned by the specific device comprises a status change of the specific port.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the indicator status tracking module is further configured to stop the indicator status tracking task according to an instruction or a network status.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a real-time message processing module, for converting a status change of port into information that can be identified by the indicator status tracking module, and transferring the information to the indicator status tracking module for displaying in real time.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a service information management module, for obtaining associated information of a corresponding port according to the status received by the indicator status tracking module, and transmitting the information to the indicator status tracking module for displaying the associated information of the corresponding port.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a device management module, for generating a list of port to be tracked according to a tracking condition transmitted by the indicator status tracking module, and for returning the list of port to the indicator status tracking module;

wherein the indicator status tracking module sends to the specific device a message to initiate the indicator status tracking task according to the list of port.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a timer, for timing a handshake of the indicator status tracking task initiated by the indicator status tracking module.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the indicator status tracking module comprises:

a counter, being initiated when the indicator status tracking module sends a handshake message to a device, increasing or decreasing number of the counter when the handshake between the indicator status tracking module and the device is failed, and resetting when the handshake between the indicator status tracking module and the device is successful; and

the indicator status tracking module stops the indicator status tracking task when counting of the counter achieves a designated value.

9. A device port monitoring method, comprising:

acquiring inputted information for tracking a specific port;

generating a tracking instruction according to the inputted information and sending to a specific device a message to initiate an indicator status tracking task; and

displaying a status of the specific port returned by the specific device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the status of specific port is a status change of the specific port returned by the specific device.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

stopping the indicator status tracking task according to an instruction or network status.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the acquiring inputted information for tracking the specific port comprises:

receiving, by an indicator status tracking module, a tracking condition over a Graphic User Interface (GUI), and transferring the tracking condition to a device management module;

generating, by the device management module, a corresponding list of port according to the tracking condition, and returning the list to the indicator status tracking module.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating the tracking instruction according to the inputted information and sending to the specific device the message to initiate the indicator status tracking task comprises:

adding, by an indicator status tracking module, a tracking task in a tracking task list;

executing, by the indicator status tracking module, the tracking task of the tracking task list, generating an instruction and sending to the specific device a message to initiate the tracking task.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

initiating, by the indicator status tracking module, a timer, and initiating a handshake program according to the timer.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the process for handshake program comprises:

initiating a counter for counting, when the indicator status tracking module sends a handshake message to a device;

increasing or decreasing number of the counter, when the handshake between the indicator status tracking module and the device is failed;

resetting number of the counter, when the handshake between the indicator status tracking module and the device is successful; and

stopping, by the indicator status tracking module, the indicator status tracking task when detecting that counting of the counter achieves a designated value.

16. An indicator status tracking module, comprising:

a first unit, for generating a tracking instruction according to inputted information for tracking a specific port;

a second unit, for sending to a specific device a message to initiate an indicator status tracking task;

a third unit, for displaying a status of the specific port returned by the specific device;

a fourth unit, for receiving and displaying a status change of the specific port, and stopping the indicator status tracking task according to an instruction or a network status.

17. The indicator status tracking module of claim 16, further comprising:

a counter, which is initiated when the second unit sends a handshake message to a device, increases or decreases number of the counter when a handshake between the indicator status tracking module and the device is failed, and reset number of the counter when the handshake between the indicator status tracking module and the device is successful;

wherein the fourth unit stops the indicator status tracking task when the number of the counter achieves a designated value.