Heart beat monitoring for broadband access devices and enterprise devices
AssigneeNokia of America Corporation
InventorsJigang YANG, Bahadir DANISIK
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Abstract
A heartbeat monitoring apparatus monitors the status of CPE devices based on received inform messages including events or event codes and heartbeat monitoring parameters. The heartbeat monitoring apparatus may generate and send alarm messages to external systems upon detecting a failure (e.g., offline, reboot, etc.) status of a CPE device. The heartbeat monitoring parameters may include an indication of which CPE devices (e.g., type of device, location of devices, or the like) are to be monitored, a heartbeat interval and subinterval, the frequency of a heartbeat check for alarms, or the like. The inform messages may include HEARTBEAT events for the CPE devices.
Claims24
A device status monitoring apparatus for monitoring status of devices in a network, the device status monitoring apparatus comprising:
- a memory storing computer-readable instructions;
- and
- at least one processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to
- determine that a heartbeat message has not been received from a customer premises equipment device during a current heartbeat interval,
- update device status information for the customer premises equipment device in response to determining that the heartbeat message has not been received from the customer premises equipment device during the current heartbeat interval, and
- generate an alarm message informing an external system of the updated device status information for the customer premises equipment device.
A method for monitoring statuses of devices in a network, the method comprising:
- determining that a heartbeat message has not been received from a customer premises equipment device during a current heartbeat interval;
- updating device status information for the customer premises equipment device in response to determining that the heartbeat message has not been received from the customer premises equipment device during the current heartbeat interval;
- and
- generating an alarm message informing an external system of the updated device status information for the customer premises equipment device.
A method for facilitating the monitoring a network-accessible customer premises equipment device, the method comprising:
- determining, by the customer premises equipment device, to communicate a heartbeat event message;
- including in the heartbeat event message only Forced Inform Parameters;
- and
- communicating the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.