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Method and system for automatically generating network trouble tickets

  • US 7,818,631 B1
  • Filed: 04/28/2005
  • Issued: 10/19/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of automatically generating an alarm ticketing report in a communications networking environment, the method comprising:

  • receiving an alarm event having one or more attributes, including an event identifier, wherein the alarm event is a message generated by a network device about said network device'"'"'s operability;

    determining if a ticketing report previously has been generated that is associated with the alarm event;

    if no ticketing report associated with the alarm event previously has been generated, automatically referencing a set of ticketing rules from a first data structure;

    without user intervention, evaluating the one or more attributes against the ticketing rules to determine whether a ticketing report should be generated;

    if a ticketing report should be generated, then identifying a target ticketing system;

    generating a ticketing message based on the alarm-event attributes and the target ticketing system; and

    routing the event to the target ticketing system, whereby the ticketing report can be automatically generated.

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