REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE OBJECTS

• US 20090019104A1
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Stevens, Christoph, Coppens, Jan, Justen, Pascal, Liekens, Werner Mario, Acke, Willem Jozef Amaat, Bouchat, Christele
• Granted Patent: US 9,003,011 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/548 Object oriented; Remote method invocation [RMI] non-remote method invocation G06F9/449
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0233 Object-oriented techniques, for representation of network management data, e.g. common object request broker architecture [CORBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0266 using meta-data, objects or commands for formatting management information, e.g. using eXtensible markup language [XML]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration

Abstract

A remote management system is able to remotely manage service objects (311) in a bundle (301). The remote management system thereto contains a management platform (302) in a customer device where the bundle (301) is installed, a remote management server (304) somewhere in the network, and a management agent (303) able to expose the service object representation (312) of the service objects (311) via a remote management protocol (307) to the remote management server (304). The remote management system in addition is foreseen with a proxy bundle (305) with a generic interface to populate and export a generic service object representation (351) of the service objects (311) towards the management agent (303).

Claims

1. A remote management system for remote management of a bundle (301) having at least one service object (311) with corresponding service object representation (312), said remote management system comprising a management platform (302) in a customer device where said bundle (301) is installed, a management agent (303) and a remote management server (304), said management agent (303) being able to expose said service object representation (312) via a remote management protocol (307) to said remote management server (304),

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said remote management system further comprises a proxy bundle (305) with a generic service object representation interface adapted to populate and export a generic service object representation (351) of said at least one service object (311) towards said management agent (303).

2. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said proxy bundle (305) comprises a Java Application Programming Interface adapted to populate said generic service object representation (351) from said service object representation (312).

3. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said generic service object representation interface (509) is adapted to map on a remote management protocol interface.

4. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said generic service object representation interface is incorporated in said management agent (603).

5. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said management system further comprises translation means (706;

806) for translating said generic service object representation to a representation that is understandable by said remote management server (304), said translation means (706;

806) either residing in between said proxy bundle (305) and said remote management server (304).

6. A management system according to claim 5,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said translation means comprise an eXtensible Markup Language or XML scheme based on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations or XSLT syntax and semantics, or a dedicated application.

7. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said proxy bundle (305) further comprises means adapted to monitor and notify parameter value changes to said management agent (303).

8. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said proxy bundle (305) further comprises means adapted to implement a service object interface not present on said management platform (302).

9. A management system according to claim 1,

CHARACTERISED IN THAT said proxy bundle (305) further comprises means adapted to troubleshoot running service objects on said management platform (302).