Direct Binary File Transfer based Network Management System Free of Messaging, Commands and Data Format Conversions
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Abstract
Telecommunication network management operations are performed based on accessing network management data (NMD) files via GUIs and general purpose computers including a network management system (NMS) server, and automatic routines for transferring binary NMD files between the general purpose computers and remote network elements (NEs) being managed. A system user produces configuration files at the NMS server for NEs using a network management GUI, and the hardware of NEs automatically complete the network management operations indicated by the NMD files transferred to them from the NMS server and produce their status files to the NMS server. The network management GUI displays network status based on the latest NE status files at the NMS server. This provides direct, binary file transfer based NMS communication that avoids the complexity and restrictions of intermediate messaging protocols or transaction languages and conversions thereof.
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38 Claims
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21. A system for displaying an alarm status for a set of network elements (NEs) in a communications network, the system comprising:
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a network management system (NMS) server containing status data for the set of NEs, wherein the status data for each NE comprises;
(i) a top-level NE alarm status indicator indicating whether the NE has an active defect, and (ii) a plurality of lower-level alarm status indicators each indicating whether an aspect of the NE has an active defect, arranged in a hierarchy from the top-level NE alarm status down to a set of bottom-level NE defect status bits; anda graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the alarm status for one or more of the NEs, wherein for a selected NE the GUI is configured to display the top-level NE alarm status indicator for the NE and enable hyperlink-based navigation of the status data from the top-level NE alarm status indicator down to the bottom-level defect status bits according to the hierarchy, wherein the status data for at least one NE among said set comprises a binary NE status file that is periodically copied from its associated NE to the NMS server, and wherein the plurality of lower-level alarm status indicators for at least one NE among said set includes a bit vector, containing one or more bits and referred to as a NE top-level alarm vector, located at a pre-defined position within the binary NE status file, with bits within the NE top-level alarm vector representing the alarm status of such top-level functional blocks of the NE that are associated with any given bit within the NE top-level alarm vector. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for displaying a network alarm status for a network that includes a plurality of network elements (NEs), the method comprising:
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storing status data for a set of the NEs, the status data comprising, for each NE; a top-level NE alarm status indicator indicating whether the NE has an active defect, and a plurality of lower-level alarm status indicators each indicating whether an aspect of the NE has an active defect, the lower-level alarm status indicators arranged in a hierarchy from the top-level NE alarm status down to a set of elementary-level defect status bits; displaying via a graphical user interface the top-level NE alarm status indicators for one or more of the NEs, wherein one or more of the top-level NE alarm status indicators each includes one or more hyperlinks to the corresponding lower-level alarm status indicators according to the hierarchy; and responsive to receiving a user selection of a hyperlink, displaying the lower-level alarm status indicators for the corresponding top-level NE alarm status indicator according to the hierarchy, wherein the status data for at least one NE among said set comprises a binary NE status file, and wherein the plurality of lower-level alarm status indicators for at least one NE among said set includes a bit vector, containing one or more bits and referred to as a NE top-level alarm vector, located at a pre-defined position within the binary NE status file, with bits within the NE top-level alarm vector representing the alarm status of such top-level functional blocks of the NE that are associated with any given bit within the NE top-level alarm vector. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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