COMMUNICATION DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOCAL NETWORK DEVICE REMOTELY

• US 20080215668A1
• Filed: 03/13/2008
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2005
• 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: HU, Junling
• Application Number:
  US12/047,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20080215668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0826 for reduction of network costs H04L41/0833 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies

Abstract

A communication device, system and method for managing the local network device remotely include: a local gateway acquires the topology structure and the configuration information of the local network device, and sends them to a remote management server; the remote management server generates configuration instruction to manage the local network device accordingly. The local gateway can manage the local network terminal uniformly, and it is unnecessary that all terminals of the local network support the remote network management protocol. Moreover, the remote management server can easily know the condition of the network organization of the whole local network and optimize the configuration based on the topology of the local network. The solution of the present invention can omit the related information redundancy of the gateway and terminal, reduce the cost of consistency management, and simplify the NAT traversal mechanism when the remote management server visits the private network terminal

Claims

1. A method for managing local network device remotely, comprising:

acquiring information of a local network device;

providing the information to a remote management server; and

receiving a configuration instruction generated by the remote management server based on the information of the local network device for managing the local network device.

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

converting the configuration instruction into an identifiable configuration instruction which can be identified by the local network devices.

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

sending the identifiable configuration instruction to the local network device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring information of a local network device comprises:

acquiring related information of the local network device,

determining a topology structure and configuration information of the local network which are included in information of the local network device by processing the acquired related information.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the acquiring information of a local network device comprises:

acquiring related information of the local network device,

determining a topology structure and configuration information of the local network which are included in information of the local network device by processing the acquired related information.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the acquiring information of a local network device comprises:

acquiring related information of the local network device,

determining a topology structure and configuration information of the local network which are included in information of the local network device by processing the acquired related information.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the acquiring the related information of the local network device comprises:

acquiring, by the local gateway, a terminal type, a connection status and a configurable or manageable data model of the local network device which have been on line; and

/or

acquiring, by the local gateway, a terminal type, a connection status and a configurable or manageable data model of the local network device of which the configuration has changed; and

/or

acquiring, by the local gateway, a terminal type, a connection status and a configurable or manageable data model of the local network device which attends the local network newly; and

/or

acquiring, by the local gateway, a terminal type of the local network device which is off-line.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the determining a topology structure and a configuration information of the local network comprises:

acquiring, by the local gateway, a suitable remote configuration management information as the configuration information from the related information of the local network device; and

updating, by the local gateway, the configuration model according to the information of the local network device and educing the topology structure of the local network.

9. The method according to claims 4, wherein, the configuration instruction is generated based on the topology structure and configuration information.

10. The method according to claims 7, wherein, the configuration instruction is generated based on the topology structure and configuration information.

11. The method according to claims 8, wherein, the configuration instruction is generated based on the topology structure and configuration information.

12. A method for managing local network device remotely, comprising:

receiving information of a local network device from a related gateway;

generating a configuration instruction for managing the local network device according to the information of the local network device, and

sending the configuration instruction to the gateway.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, the information of the local network device comprises a topology structure and configuration information, the generating a configuration instruction for managing the local network device according to the information of the local network device comprises:

generating a configuration instruction according to the topology structure and configuration information.

14. A system for managing local network device, comprising:

a local gateway, configured to intercommunicate with at least one local network device, acquire information of a local network device and provide the information;

a remote management server, configured to receive the information of the local network device, generate a configuration instruction for managing the local network device according to the information of network device and transmit the configuration instruction to the local gateway.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein, the local gateway is further configured to receive the configuration instruction and convert the configuration instruction into an identifiable configuration instruction to be identified by the local network devices to manage the local network devices.

16. The system of claim 14, the local gateway comprising:

a network device detecting module, configured to acquire the information of the local network device; and

a protocol converting and sending module, configured to convert the information of the local network device into identifiable information to be identified by the remote management server and transmit the identifiable information to the remote management server;

receive the configuration instruction from the remote management server, convert the configuration instruction into a identifiable configuration instruction to be identified by the local network device, and transmit the identifiable configuration instruction to the local network device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the protocol converting and sending module comprises:

an information receiving module configured to receive the configuration instruction from the remote management server and the information of the local network device detected by the network device detecting module and transmit the configuration instruction and the information of the local network device to a protocol processing module;

the protocol processing module configured to convert the configuration instruction into the identifiable configuration instruction which can be identified by the local network device; and

convert the information of the local network device into the identifiable information which can be identified by the remote management server; and

an information transmission module configured to transmit the converted configuration instruction to the local network device to realize the management of each local network device, and transmit the converted information of the local network device to the remote management server.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein the network device detecting module comprises:

a network device parameter acquiring module configured to acquire related information of the local network device including an information of access, remove, connection status and/or work status of the local network device; and

a network device parameter processing module configured to determine a topology structure and configuration information of the local network according to the related information of the local network device acquired by the network device parameter acquiring module.

23. The system according to claim 17, wherein the network device detecting module comprises:

a network device parameter acquiring module configured to acquire related information of the local network device including an information of access, remove, connection status and/or work status of the local network device; and

a network device parameter processing module configured to determine a topology structure and configuration information of the local network according to the related information of the local network device acquired by the network device parameter acquiring module.

19. A communication device, for intercommunicating with a local network device as a gateway device of the local network, comprising:

a network device detecting module configured to acquire the information of the local network device; and

a protocol converting and sending module, configured to convert the information of the local network device into identifiable information to be identified by a remote management server, and transmit the identifiable information to the remote management server.

20. The device according to claim 19, wherein the protocol converting and sending module is further configured to receive a configuration instruction from the remote management server, convert the configuration instruction into identifiable configuration instruction to be identified by the local network device, and transmit the identifiable configuration instruction to the local network device.

21. The device according to claim 20, wherein the protocol converting and sending module comprises:

an information receiving module configured to receive the configuration instruction from the remote management server and the information of the local network device detected by the network device detecting module and transmit the configuration instruction and the information of the local network device to a protocol processing module;

the protocol processing module configured to convert the configuration instruction into the identifiable configuration instruction which can be identified by the local network device; and

convert the information of the local network device into the identifiable information which can be identified by the remote management server; and

an information transmission module configured to transmit the converted configuration instruction to the local network device to realize the management of each local network device, and transmit the converted information of the local network device to the remote management server.

22. The device according to claim 20, wherein the network device detecting module comprises:

a network device parameter acquiring module configured to acquire related information of the local network device including an information of access, remove, connection status and/or work status of the local network device; and

a network device parameter processing module configured to determine a topology structure and configuration information of the local network which are included in information of the local network device according to the related information of the local network device acquired by the network device parameter acquiring module.

24. The device according to claim 21, wherein the network device detecting module comprises:

a network device parameter acquiring module configured to acquire related information of the local network device including an information of access, remove, connection status and/or work status of the local network device; and

a network device parameter processing module configured to determine a topology structure and configuration information of the local network which are included in information of the local network device according to the related information of the local network device acquired by the network device parameter acquiring module.