METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING NETWORK DEVICES

• US 20090287800A1
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chengdu Huawei Symantec Technologies Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chengdu Huawei Symantec Technologies Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sun, Yi, Chi, Haixia, Lai, Junchen
• Application Number:
  US12/394,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20090287800A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/022 Multivendor or multi-standard integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method for managing network devices includes: after detecting that a primary network device is connected to a network management device, sending an information query to a secondary network device to query the management configuration information of the primary network device; receiving response information sent by the secondary network device in response to the information query, where the response information includes the management configuration information of the primary network device; using the management configuration information to manage the primary network device.

Claims

1. A network device management method, comprising:

sending an information query to a secondary network device to query management configuration information of a primary network device if detecting that the primary network device is connected to a network management device;

receiving response information sent by the secondary network device in response to the information query, wherein the response information comprises the management configuration information of the primary network device; and

using the management configuration information to manage the primary network device.

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

sending a type query to query a type of the primary network device to the secondary network device after detecting that the primary network device is connected to a network management device;

receiving response information sent by the secondary network device in response to the type query, wherein the response information comprises information on the type of the primary network device; and

establishing a mapping relation between the type of the primary network device and the management configuration information of the primary network device.

3. The network device management method according to claim 2, wherein after receiving the response information sent by the secondary network, the method further comprises:

querying the management configuration information in the mapping relation with the type of primary network device;

entering a step of sending a query to query the management configuration information of the primary network device to the secondary network device if the management configuration information in the mapping relation with the type of primary network device is not queried; and

using the management configuration information in the mapping relation with the type of primary network device to manage the primary network device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the secondary network device and the primary network device is the same network device.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the secondary network device further comprises other network management device or server.

6. A network management device, comprising:

a detecting unit, adapted to detect whether a primary network device is connected to the network management device;

an information querying unit, adapted to send an information query to a secondary network device to query management configuration information of the primary network device when detecting that the primary network device is connected;

an information receiving unit, adapted to receive response information from the secondary network device in response to the information query after the information querying unit sends the information query to the secondary network device to query management configuration information of the primary network device, wherein the response information comprises the management configuration information of the primary network device; and

a device management unit, adapted to use the management configuration information to manage the primary network device.

7. The network management device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a type querying unit, adapted to send a type query to the secondary network device to query a type of the primary network device after the detecting unit detects that the primary network device is connected to the network management device;

a type receiving unit, adapted to receive response information from the secondary network device in response to the type query after the type querying unit sending the type query to the secondary network device to query the type of the primary network device, wherein the response information comprises information on the type of the primary network device; and

a mapping creating unit, adapted to create a mapping relation between the type of the primary network device and the management configuration information of the primary network device.

8. The network management device according to claim 6, further comprising:

an information searching unit, adapted to search for the management configuration information in the mapping relation with the type of primary network device according to the mapping relation created by the mapping creating unit after the type receiving unit receives the information on the type of the primary network device;

the information querying unit, adapted to send the information query to the secondary network device to query the management configuration information of the primary network device when the information searching unit finds no management configuration information in a mapping relation with the type of the primary network device; and

the device management unit, adapted to use the management configuration information in the mapping relation with the type of the primary network device to manage the primary network device when the information searching unit finds the management configuration information in the mapping relation with the type of the primary network device.

9. The network management device according to claim 6, wherein the primary network device and the secondary network device is the same network device.

10. The network management device according to claim 9, wherein the secondary network device further comprises other network management device or server.

11. A computer readable storage medium including code for sending an information query to a secondary network device to query management configuration information of a primary network device when detecting that the primary network device is connected to a network management device;

receiving response information sent by the secondary network device in response to the information query, wherein the response information comprises the management configuration information of the primary network device; and

using the management configuration information to manage the primary network device.

12. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 11, further including code for sending a type query to query a type of the primary network device to the secondary network device after detecting that the primary network device is connected to the network management device;

receiving response information sent by the secondary network device in response to the type query, wherein the response information comprises information on the type of the primary network device; and

establishing a mapping relation between the type of the primary network device and the management configuration information of the primary network device.