Automatic network mangement system and methods
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsBo ÅSTRÖM, Stephen TERRILL
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Abstract
A network management architecture referred to as the Control/Orchestration/Management/Policy/Analytics, COMPA, architecture. The COMPA architecture functions to simplify and automate the operations (both management and business process) of a network. In one aspect, the COMPA architecture provides controlled access to functionality provided by different responsibility domains using cooperating service access control, SAC, agents.
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A method for enabling a first consumer to invoke an operation by a legacy agent using a message that the legacy agent is not operable to successfully process, comprising:
- an adapter receiving a first software package for use in processing the message;
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- the adapter, as a result of loading the first software package, transmitting to a Responsibility Domain Common Functions, RDCF, agent a capability registration message comprising information indicating that the adapter is configured to process the message.
An adapter apparatus for enabling a first consumer to invoke an operation on a legacy agent using a message that the legacy agent is not operable to successfully process, comprising:
- a data storage system;
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- a computer apparatus coupled to the data storage system, the computer apparatus comprising one or more processors, wherein the adapter apparatus is configured such that, after an administration entity loads onto the adapter apparatus a first software package for use in processing the message, the adapter apparatus:
- transmits to an Responsibility Domain Common Functions, RDCF, agent a capability registration message comprising information indicating that the adapter apparatus is configured to process the message;
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- provide to the administration entity a message indicating that the adapter apparatus has successfully registered with the RDCF information indicating that the adapter apparatus is configured to process the message.
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