Method and apparatus for providing alarms in networks
AssigneeTellabs Operations, Inc.
InventorEric L. Chan
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Abstract
Multiple physical NEs may be presented to a network carrier as a single logical NE comprising multiple physical NEs. Alarms between the multiple physical NEs may be treated as internal connection alarms of the single logical NE instead of endpoint alarms of the multiple physical NEs. A number of alarms in the network may be reduced as well as alarm processing of the alarms at an Operational Support System (OSS), effectuating scaling of alarms as well as relaxing resource requirements (e.g., compute power, memory, etc.) of the OSS.
Claims20
A method of providing alarms in a network, the method comprising:
- generating internal connection alarms, for a virtual node, at master ports of pairs of master and slave ports of nodes configured to appear as the virtual node;
- and
- generating endpoint alarms at ports of the nodes not being within a master and slave pairing, the master and slave ports operating in accordance with an internal connection mode, the ports of the nodes not being within the master and slave port pairing operating in accordance with a normal connection mode.
An apparatus for providing alarms in a network, the node configured with at least one other node to appear as a virtual node, the node comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one linecard including the at least one processor and multiple physical ports, the multiple physical ports being provisioned as internal or external ports, each provisioned internal port being further provisioned as either a slave or master port, the at least one processor configured to:
- for each slave port provisioned, communicate alarm conditions of the slave port to a corresponding master port operatively coupled to the slave port provisioned;
- for each master port provisioned, (i) collate and integrate alarm conditions of the master port provisioned with alarm conditions communicated from a corresponding slave port operatively coupled to the master port provisioned and (ii) generate internal connection alarms for the virtual node based on the alarm conditions collated and integrated;
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- for each external port provisioned, generate endpoint alarms for the virtual node.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when loaded and executed by a processor, causes the processor to:
- generate internal connection alarms for a virtual node at master ports of pairs of master and slave ports of nodes configured to appear as the virtual node;
- and
- generate endpoint alarms at ports of the nodes not being within a master and slave pairing, master and slave ports operating in accordance with an internal connection mode, the ports of the nodes not being within the master and slave port pairing operating in accordance with a normal connection mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.