Method for event management

• US 7,136,916 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2002
• Issued: 11/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schade, Hendrik
• Primary Examiner(s): Cardone, Jason
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOUDHURY, AZIZUL Q
• Application Number:
  US10/094,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20030172151A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 713/201, 345/349
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/06 Generation of reports
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99942 Manipulating data structure, e.g. compression, compaction, compilation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99953 Recoverability

Abstract

In a method for configuring a network of managed objects with a set of templates comprising event detection criteria in the context of network monitoring, a new template, which comprises at least one event detection criterion associated with a type of managed object, is developed. The new template, including a specific identifier, is stored on a table of a database which has a plurality of tables, of which each table corresponds to a type of managed object within the network. Each table contains at least one previously developed template, which includes a specific identifier and comprises at least one event detection criterion corresponding to the relevant type of managed object. After that, a set of templates which comprises the new template and at least one previously developed template is defined, so that the set of templates contains at least one template from among each table. Finally, the network is updated, so that each managed object contains the relevant template from the set of templates.

Claims

1. A method for updating a plurality of medical devices of respectively different types that communicate with a network having a network interface operable by a user, comprising the steps of:

in a database accessible via said interface, electronically storing a plurality of tables respectively corresponding to said different types of said medical devices;

in each of said tables in said database, electronically storing a plurality of predetermined templates respectively for said different types of medical devices, each predetermined template comprising an identifier that designates the medical device to which the table corresponds, and at least one event detection criterion, unique to the type of medical device designated by the identifier that, when satisfied, denotes an occurrence of said at least one event;

developing a new template comprising a new identifier and a new event detection criterion for the type of medical device designated by the type identifier of the new template;

electronically storing said new template in said database in one of said plurality of tables that corresponds to the same type of medical device as said new template;

via said network interface, manually defining a set of templates respectively for said plurality of medical devices, said set of templates comprising said new template and at least one of said predetermined templates so that said set of templates contains templates with respective identifiers for each of said different types of said medical devices; and

updating all of said plurality of medical devices by transmitting the templates in said set of templates to the respective medical devices dependent on the respective identifiers thereof.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising, before updating said network, testing said new template in a test network that simulates said network.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising employing a Revision Control System (ROS) as said database.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 comprising using said identifier of each template to designate a version of that template, and wherein the step of manually defining said set of templates comprises selecting templates from said tables dependent on said version represented by the respective identifier.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of said medical devices comprises a configurable agent, and wherein the step of updating all of said plurality of medical devices comprises re-configuring the respective agents of all of said plurality of medical devices using the respective templates in said set of templates.