Performance monitoring data acquisition library

• US 6,097,702 A
• Filed: 12/31/1997
• Issued: 08/01/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel USA Sourcing L.P. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Miller, Daniel L., Ouellette, Christopher J., Haney, Scott J.
• Primary Examiner(s): FELBER, JOSEPH LEON
• Application Number:
  US09/002,141
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• Field of Search: 370/244, 370/248, 370/907, 370/242, 370/522, 714/42, 714/712, 709/302, 709/303, 709/400
• US Class Current: 370/244
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0681 Configuration of triggering conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 370/907 Synchronous optical network, SONET

Abstract

A method is disclosed for configuring software for acquiring PM data from telecommunication equipment in response to PM signals generated by the equipment responsive to events, including the steps of maintaining a library of product-independent, event-responsive modules, maintaining product-dependent data relating selected ones of the modules with a plurality of telecommunication equipment systems, and generating event-responsive PM software corresponding to one or more of the telecommunication equipment systems by assembling the modules in accordance with the product-dependent data.

Claims

1. A method for configuring software for acquiring PM data from telecommunication equipment in response to PM signals generated by the equipment responsive to events, comprising:

maintaining a library of product-independent, event-responsive modules;

maintaining product-dependent data relating selected ones of the modules with a plurality of telecommunication equipment systems; and

generating event-responsive PM software corresponding to one or more of the telecommunication equipment systems by assembling the modules in accordance with the product-dependent data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining product-independent modules provided with product-independent strictly defined interface formats.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the data maintaining step comprises maintaining product-dependent data that includes data relating product-specific interface formats to the product-independent strictly defined interface formats.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining a plurality of product-independent event-responsive PM data modules.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining a plurality of accumulator PM data modules.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining at least one additive accumulator PM module.

7. The method of claim 5 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining at least one maximizing accumulator PM data module.

8. The method of claim 5 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining at least one minimizing accumulator PM data module.

9. The method of claim 4 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining at least one gauge PM data module.

10. The method of claim 4 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining at least one stopwatch PM data module.

11. The method of claim 4 wherein the library-maintaining step comprises maintaining at least one ratio PM data module.

12. The method of claim 4 wherein the plurality of product-independent event-responsive PM data modules each has a current monitoring interval bank and a previous monitoring interval bank.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of maintaining at least one product-independent functional module.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the at least one product-independent functional module comprises a threshold comparator module having strictly defined product-independent interfaces to the at least one product-independent functional module.

15. The method of claim 13 wherein the at least one product-independent functional module comprises a delay module having strictly defined product-independent interfaces to the at least one product-independent functional module.

16. A method for acquiring PM data from telecommunication equipment using the software configured according to claim 1.