Adaptive data acquisition for a network or services management system

• US 8,639,795 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2002
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Martinot, Olivier, Betge-Brezetz, Stephane, Marilly, Emmanuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollack, Melvin H
• Application Number:
  US10/293,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20030097440A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,093 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 709/202, 709/221, 709/227, 715733-736, 719/317, 713/100, 702/188
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/20 Network management software packages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

A network management system comprising a data acquisition module itself comprising a measurement module for collecting data coming from probes placed on items of network equipment in a network is provided. The data acquisition module forwards the data to a supervisor module, the data being collected as a function of measurement parameters associated with the probes, wherein the data acquisition module further comprises a measurement adaptation module having a module for adding or removing the probes and for modifying the associated measurement parameters as a function of the collected data.

Claims

1. A network management system comprising a data acquisition module itself comprising a measurement module,

wherein said measurement module collects data coming from probes placed on items of network equipment in a network, and forwards the data to a supervisor module, the data being collected as a function of measurement parameters associated with said probes,

wherein said data acquisition module further comprises a measurement adaptation module, which receives the data from the measurement module, and

wherein said measurement adaptation module adds or removes said probes and modifies the associated measurement parameters as a function of the collected data.

2. A network management system according to claim 1 in which said measurement parameters are a measurement period.

3. A service management system comprising a network management system according to claim 1.

4. A network management system according to claim 1, wherein the probes are added if a load on a virtual connection of the network exceeds a predetermined threshold, and the probes are removed if the load on the virtual on the virtual connection is below the predetermined threshold.

5. A network management system according to claim 1, wherein a measurement period of the collecting of the data is shortened as a collection value approaches a predetermined threshold, and the measurement period is lengthened as the collection value moves away from the predetermined threshold.