US 5,475,838 A · Extensible entity management system including rule-based alarms

Extensible entity management system including rule-based alarms

AssigneeDigital Equipment Corporation

InventorsLeonard G. Fehskens, Colin Strutt, Steven K. Wong, Jill F. Callander, Peter H. Burgess, Kathy J. Nelson, Matthew J. Guertin, Gerard R. Plouffe, Mark W. Sylor, Kenneth W. Chapman, Robert C. Schuchard, Stanley I. Goldfarb, Anil V. Navkal, Dennis O. Rogers, Linsey B. O'Brien, Philip J. Trasatti, Christine C. Chan-Lizardo, Benjamin M. England, James L. Lemmon, Jr., Richard L. Rosenbaum, Ruth E. J. Kohls, David L. Aronson, Allan B. Moore, Robert R. N. Ross, Danny L. Smith, William C. Adams, Jr., Arundahati G. Sankar, G. Paul Koning, Sheryl F. Namoglu, Mark J. Seger, Timothy M. Dixon, Jeffrey R. Harrow

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Abstract

A system for managing an assemblage of entities. The entities interface within the assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and further interface with the system to permit the carrying out of management functions. The system includes management modules adapted to carry out management functions by independently interpreting and executing commands, a kernel including a table of dispatch pointers for directing the commands to the respective modules in which they are to be interpreted and executed, and an enroller for enrolling new modules into the system by adding further pointers to the table. In addition, the system includes: a module adapted to independently interpret and execute selected management-related commands; stored records relating to accessed management information, each record indicating an associated time; an information manager, responsive to commands having a time schedule, for retrieving information from the records or accessing information from the entities, including a scheduler for issuing subsidiary accesses or retrievals at possibly multiple times according to the schedule; storage containing domain information defining groups of entities, where the kernel may issue a commands to a group by issuing individual commands to appropriate modules; a common command syntax including fields for identifying the entity and the operation to be performed; a module that stores rules identifying alarm conditions, including a generator for generating rules and an alarm detector for detecting an alarm condition in response to the rules; a module adapted to carry out self-management functions by interpreting and executing commands.

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Dependent claims

A system for controlling and carrying cut management functions over an assemblage of entities, wherein said entities interface within said assemblage for control of primary information handling functions and said entities further interface with said system to permit the carrying out of said management functions, said management functions including a function for retrieval of one or more attribute values from an entity, said attribute values identifying the state of operation of said entity, said system comprising:

stored management modules carrying out said management functions by executing selected management-related commands,
storage containing records of said attribute values, each record including an indication of an associated time,
at least one said module storing rules identifying attribute values at one or more times corresponding to alarm conditions and comprising a rule generator for generating rules for storage and an alarm condition detector for retrieving attribute values from storage or said entities and detecting an alarm condition in response to the contents of said rules if retrieved attribute values correspond to an alarm condition.

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Facts

Application

08/159,737Filed 30 Nov 1993 · division

Priority

13 Sep 1988

Granted

12 Dec 1995

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Classification6 codes

H04L 41/00
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks
H04L 41/042
Network management architectures or arrangements: comprising distributed management centres cooperatively managing the network
H04L 69/00
Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not
Y10S 707/99931
Data processing: database and file management or data structures: database or file accessing

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