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System and method for communications management with redundancy

  • US 6,286,042 B1
  • Filed: 04/03/1998
  • Issued: 09/04/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system comprising at least one managing system, a number of first managed systems and a number of second managed systems, each managed system comprising a number of managed objects representing resources, a management interface for providing communication between managing and managed systems via which management operations can be sent from the managing systems to the managed system(s), wherein for providing redundancy a management operation is replicated and provided to a first and to at least one second managed system and the replication is done in the first managed system, and the management operation is broken down into a number of managed object instance operations, the management operation being replicated by replication of the managed object instance operations, and wherein CMIP operations on sets of managed objects in an MIB in one network element are transformed into sets of simple CMIP operations on managed objects in another MIB in another network element while relationship consistency is preserved.

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