Web services and telecom network management unification

• US 9,088,518 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2007
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Basu, Sujoy, Winsor, Gerald William
• Primary Examiner(s): THIAW, CATHERINE B
• Application Number:
  US11/627,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20080183850A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,099 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709220-229, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/02 Standardisation; Integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/022 Multivendor or multi-standard integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A method of unifying web services and telecom network management is described. The method comprises exporting an external model representation of at least one entity of a service oriented architecture of a service oriented architecture manager and importing the exported external model representation of the at least one entity as a network management data model entity of a network manager. The method further comprises subscribing, by the network manager, to subsequent updates of the at least one entity.

Claims

1. A system for unifying web services and telecom network management, comprising:

a service oriented architecture manager arranged to generate, by a processor;

(a) a service model of at least one web service and (b) an external model representation of the service model; and

a network manager arranged to import the generated external model representation of the service model into a network management data model, wherein the network manager applies a rule set specifying at least one import rule to be applied to at least one entity of the generated external model representation.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the network manager is further arranged to subscribe to alerts corresponding to changes in the service oriented architecture manager service model, comprising one of a change in the dependencies of a business service on one or more Web service, and a change in one of a fault status and a performance metric of one of the business service and the Web service.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the rule set further comprises at least one function rule to be applied to the at least one entity of the generated external model representation.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network manager is further arranged to generate at least one update request responsive to receipt of an alert from the service oriented architecture manager.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the service oriented architecture manager is further arranged to generate an alert based on a fault or performance degradation or recovery from at least one of the Web services or business services.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the external model representation represents the at least one entity of the service model as a subject-predicate-object expression, wherein the subject-predicate-object expression is a triple expression used to describe the at least one entity of the service model.