Remotely monitoring network utilizing expression containing combination object and multiple independent objects

• US 7,437,453 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2002
• Issued: 10/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chen, Hongfei, Xiang, Haizhou, Lv, Zhenfeng
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Haresh N
• Application Number:
  US10/482,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20040186693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,360 Days
• Field of Search: 709200-205, 709217-228, 709/229, 719/310, 719311-318, 717/127, 715/736, 700/80
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0213 Standardised network management protocols, e.g. simple network management protocol [SNMP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/022 by sampling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for remotely monitoring method of computer network. It is an improvement of the RMON (Remote Network Monitoring) alarm group. The method mainly includes: Setting an alarm-extended table in the RMON alarm group; Defining a combination object in MIB (Management Information Base) that is an expression with two or more than two independent objects; A network management center sends a Set-Request packet with the expression to managed devices to initiate a RMON monitoring process; The expression is calculated and its value is compared with a threshold; When calculated value of the expression exceeds the threshold, processing steps preset by the network management center are taken. The invention supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), optimizes network performance, and saves network bandwidth and CPU resource of the network management center.

Claims

1. A method for remotely monitoring a computer network, applied in a computer network comprising a network management center and a managed device, wherein the network management center supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and implements remote network monitoring alarm, independent objects of the managed device and attributes of the independent objects are configured in a Manage Information Base (MIB) to monitor the managed device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the managed device, a Set-Request packet with an operation expression from the network management center to initiate a RMON monitoring process, wherein the operation expression is a four fundamental operation expression of arithmetic representing a combination object and comprises at least two independent objects;

parsing character-string data information of the operation expression, checking whether the character-string data information satisfies syntax rules of four fundamental operations of arithmetic, and analyzing whether all independent objects in the operation expression can be sampled at the managed device;

when the character-string data information does not satisfy the syntax rules of four fundamental operations of arithmetic or the independent objects cannot be sampled at the managed device, reporting to the network management center that the Set-Request is failure;

when the character-string data information satisfies the syntax rules of four fundamental operations of arithmetic and all the independent objects in the operation expression can be sampled at the managed device, sampling, by the managed device, values of every independent object in the operation expression and calculating said combination object according to the operation expression, and then comparing calculated result with a preset threshold;

when the calculated result exceeds the threshold, informing the network management center in real time or making a log,

wherein the network management center is for implementing management for the managed device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, defining a set of objects which concern about monitoring duration in an alarm-extended table;

ending a monitoring process automatically until the monitoring process exceeds its monitoring duration.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Set-Request packet is sent by the network management center through running an alarm-extended application program.

4. The method according to claim 1, the sampling is executed based on a preset sampling period.

5. The method according to claim 1, the combination object is OCTECT STRING data type and each of the independent objects is represented by integers separated by points.

6. The method according to claim 1, said managed device is a node device or an interface device for network signal transmission supporting SNMP of sub-networks.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the managed device informs said network management center by sending a Trap packet to the network management center.