Distributed management monitoring system, monitoring method and creating method thereof

• US 20120102072A1
• Filed: 05/06/2010
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Jia, Xiaoqiang, Dong, Xueming, Sun, Chunming
• Granted Patent: US 8,898,199 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1824 implemented using Network-attached Storage [NAS] architecture distributed or networked storage systems G06F3/067; protocols for distributed storage of data in a network H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/042 comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a method for creating a distributed management monitoring system to create a distributed management monitoring system based on a distributed file system. Moreover, the present disclosure further discloses a monitoring method of the distributed management monitoring system, the method includes: updating a file of recording monitoring information regularly and correspondingly updating a device descriptor table by a sub-file system of the distributed management monitoring system; updating the device descriptor table and informing a server to update a file descriptor table by the sub-file system; and finding a device descriptor table corresponding to a designated network element through traversing the file descriptor table and reading a designated file according to the device descriptor table by the server. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides a distributed management monitoring system, the system includes: a server, a file descriptor table and a sub-file system. Therefore, by utilizing the present disclosure, each network element is enabled to monitor itself independently, unnecessary communications among network elements are reduced, and the stability of the distributed management monitoring system is enhanced.

Claims

1. A method for creating a distributed management monitoring system, comprising:

creating and initializing a file descriptor table and a monitoring platform of a distributed management monitoring system based on a distributed file system;

creating and initializing a Virtual File System (VFS) and a root file system of the distributed management monitoring system, and mounting the root file system on the VFS;

correspondingly mounting each network element on the VFS according to a file system type of each network element; and

creating and initializing a device descriptor table and correspondingly updating the file descriptor table.

2. The method for creating a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the step of creating and initializing the monitoring platform of a distributed management monitoring system based on a distributed file system comprises:

initializing a server of the distributed management monitoring system;

embedding a sub-file system in a network element to be mounted on the distributed management monitoring system to enable the network element to interact with the server; and

creating a mapping management link from a local sub-file system to the server and providing an interface for reading and writing of a file in the sub-file system by the network element through loading a client_server system.

3. The method for creating a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the step of mounting each network element on the VFS according to the file system type of each network element comprises:

determining whether a mounting point corresponding to the file system type of the network element to be mounted exists on a current VFS directory tree, if a mounting point exists, mounting the network element to be mounted on the distributed management monitoring system;

if a mounting point does not exist, adding the mounting point of the network element in the VFS according to the file system type of the network element and mounting the network element on the distributed management monitoring system.

4. The method for creating a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the step of creating and initializing a device descriptor table and correspondingly updating the file descriptor table comprises that:

information on a single board in a network element is synchronously updated to a corresponding device descriptor table, and after being informed of the updating of the device descriptor table, the server of the distributed management monitoring system adds information of a newly-added network element in the file descriptor table and establishes an index link of the device descriptor table of the newly-added network element;

wherein the file descriptor table is an index from the server to the sub-file system.

11. The method for creating a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 2, wherein the step of creating and initializing a device descriptor table and correspondingly updating the file descriptor table comprises that:

information on a single board in a network element is synchronously updated to a corresponding device descriptor table, and after being informed of the updating of the device descriptor table, the server of the distributed management monitoring system adds information of a newly-added network element in the file descriptor table and establishes an index link of the device descriptor table of the newly-added network element;

wherein the file descriptor table is an index from the server to the sub-file system.

12. The method for creating a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 3, wherein the step of creating and initializing a device descriptor table and correspondingly updating the file descriptor table comprises that:

information on a single board in a network element is synchronously updated to a corresponding device descriptor table, and after being informed of the updating of the device descriptor table, the server of the distributed management monitoring system adds information of a newly-added network element in the file descriptor table and establishes an index link of the device descriptor table of the newly-added network element;

wherein the file descriptor table is an index from the server to the sub-file system.

5. A monitoring method of a distributed management monitoring system, comprising:

updating a file of recording monitoring information regularly and correspondingly updating a device descriptor table by a sub-file system of the distributed management monitoring system;

updating the device descriptor table and informing a server to update a file descriptor table by the sub-file system; and

finding a device descriptor table corresponding to a designated network element through traversing the file descriptor table by the server, and reading a designated file according to the device descriptor table by the server.

6. The monitoring method for a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 5, wherein the step that the distributed management monitoring system updates a file of recording monitoring information regularly and correspondingly updates a device descriptor table comprises that:

each network element correspondingly writes, via the sub-file system, the various collected information into a file to be traversed by the server and synchronously modifies a data field pointer in the device descriptor table.

7. The monitoring method for a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 5, wherein the step that finding a device descriptor table corresponding to a designated network element through traversing the file descriptor table of the server and reading a designated file according to the device descriptor table by the server comprises that:

after receiving a monitoring instruction, the server determines whether the monitoring instruction is legal, if the monitoring instruction is illegal, returns a response message to a primary control network manager and informs the primary control network manager that the monitoring instruction is illegal and then stops the current monitoring operation;

if the monitoring instruction is legal, the server permits the monitoring request of the primary control network manager, finds the device descriptor table of a specific network element designated by the primary control network manager through traversing the file descriptor table, and thereby finds and reads a designated file.

13. The monitoring method for a distributed management monitoring system according to claim 6, wherein the step that finding a device descriptor table corresponding to a designated network element through traversing the file descriptor table of the server and reading a designated file according to the device descriptor table by the server comprises that:

after receiving a monitoring instruction, the server determines whether the monitoring instruction is legal, if the monitoring instruction is illegal, returns a response message to a primary control network manager and informs the primary control network manager that the monitoring instruction is illegal and then stops the current monitoring operation;

if the monitoring instruction is legal, the server permits the monitoring request of the primary control network manager, finds the device descriptor table of a specific network element designated by the primary control network manager through traversing the file descriptor table, and thereby finds and reads a designated file.

8. A distributed management monitoring system, comprising:

a server, a file descriptor table and a sub-file system;

wherein the server is configured to update a file descriptor table and finding a device descriptor table corresponding to a network element designated by a monitoring instruction through traversing the file descriptor table;

the file descriptor table is configured to search for a device descriptor table corresponding to the designated network element according to a monitoring instruction received by the server; and

the sub-file system is configured to update a file of recording monitoring information regularly and correspondingly updating a device descriptor table;

wherein the sub-file system further comprises;

a device descriptor table configured to map a file of recording the monitoring information of each network element thereinto and read a designated file according to the monitoring instruction.

9. The distributed management monitoring system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a primary control network manager configured to send a monitoring instruction to the server;

wherein the server is specifically configured to;

determine, after receiving a monitoring instruction, whether the received monitoring instruction is legal, return a response message to a primary control network manager when the monitoring instruction is illegal, inform the primary control network manager that the monitoring instruction is illegal, and stop the current monitoring operation; and

when the monitoring instruction is legal, permit the monitoring request of the primary control network manager, find the device descriptor table of a specific network element designated by the primary control network manager through traversing the file descriptor table, and thereby find and read a designated file.

10. The distributed management monitoring system according to claim 8, wherein the sub-file system is specifically configured to:

accordingly write the various collected information by each network element via the sub-file system into a file to be traversed by the server, and synchronously modify the data field pointer in the device descriptor table by each network element.