Methods, systems and computer program products for network element information management
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsAdam Nelson, Christopher Boston
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Abstract
A method of monitoring network elements in a communications network includes querying the network elements for reboot and/or reconfiguration event data, identifying a group of the network elements responsive to the querying, and updating information for the identified group of network elements in a network configuration database. The method may further include extracting information from the identified group of network elements into independently searchable databases. The invention may be embodied as methods, data processing systems and computer program products.
Claims27
A method of monitoring network elements in a communications network, the method comprising:
- querying the network elements for reboot and/or reconfiguration event data;
- identifying a group of the network elements responsive to the querying;
- and
- updating information for the identified group of network elements in a network configuration database.
The method of Clam 1, wherein the steps of querying, identifying, and updating are repetitively performed to generate an archival network configuration database including a configuration history.
A data processing system, comprising:
- a network configuration database;
- and
- a change monitor configured to query network elements in a communications network for reboot and/or reconfiguration event data, to identify a group of the network elements responsive to the querying, and to update the database with information for the identified group of network elements.
The system of Clam 10, wherein the change monitor is configured to repetitively perform the steps of querying, identifying, and updating to generate an archival network configuration database including a configuration history.
A computer program product for monitoring network elements in a communications network, the computer program product comprising computer code embodied in a storage medium, the computer code comprising:
- code configured to query the network elements for reboot and/or reconfiguration event data;
- code configured to identify a group of the network elements responsive to the querying;
- and
- code configured to update information for the identified group of network elements in a network configuration database.
The computer program product of Clam 19, wherein the code configured to query, identify, and update are repetitively executed to generate an archival network configuration database including a configuration history.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.