Method and a System Relating to Network Management
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for network management comprising configuration of control protocols between network elements in a network represented through a current, static, network element object model comprising a number of managed objects with attributes and instances and representing resources. It comprises the steps of: transforming the current network element object model to a machine readable and executable formal network element object model; identifying configuration tasks needed for the configuration of the relevant control protocols; modelling a formal configuration task model using information about the configuration tasks and the formal network element object model; building a formal configuration workflow model using the formal network element object model and the formal configuration task model, said formal configuration workflow model defining the relationships between different configuration tasks required for performing or completing a number of given actions or to achieve a number of given goals.
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24. A method of network management including configuring control protocols between network elements in a network represented by a current static network element object model comprising managed objects having attributes and instances to represent network resources, the method comprising:
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transforming, in a transforming component, a current static network element object model to a machine readable and executable formal network element object model by; forming a formal ontology to represent the current static network element object model by adding formal semantics and formal domain assumptions; and using frame logic to formally model managed object classes, attributes and relationships; identifying, in an identifying component, configuration tasks needed to configure relevant control protocols; modeling, in a modeling component, a formal configuration task model using information about the configuration tasks and the formal network element object model by; forming a formal ontology to represent the formal configuration task model; creating formal configuration ontologies for different configuration tasks needed to configure one or more of the relevant control protocols using frame logic; and building, in a workflow building component, a formal configuration workflow model using the formal network element object model and the formal configuration task model by providing respective workflows using frame logic primitives, wherein the formal configuration workflow model defines relationships between the different configuration tasks required for performing or completing one or more given actions, or to perform a selected action. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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45. A network management system for configuring network element control protocols between network elements in a network represented by a current static network element managed object model comprising one or more managed objects having attributes and instances to represent network resources, the system comprising:
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a transformer component configured to transform a current static network element managed object model to a machine readable and executable formal network element managed object model; an enriching component communicatively connected to the transformer component, and configured to add formal semantics and formal domain assumptions to the formal network element managed object model; an identifying component configured to identify configuration tasks needed to configure one or more control protocols; a modeling component configured to model a formal configuration task model using information in the formal network element managed object model and information about the configuration tasks; a workflow building component configured to build a formal configuration workflow model using the formal network element managed object model, the formal configuration task model, and external information, wherein the formal workflow configuration model defines relationships between different configuration tasks needed to perform or complete one or more actions comprising one or more configuration tasks; and wherein the transforming component and the modeling component comprise an ontogical forming component configured to; form ontologies representing the current network managed object model and the configuration task model; and generate the formal network element managed object model and the formal configuration task model based on the formed ontologies, respectively. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48)
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