Method for computer internet remote management of a telecommunication network element

In a communication network having a plurality of network elements, a method for managing a network element, comprising the steps of:

• selectively running a management application at a plurality of different work stations for command, control and fault management of the network element;
• interfacing an element management server through a computer internet to the plurality of different work stations to provide distributed network element management services to the management application at all of the plurality of work stations;
• interfacing the network element with the element management server through a management agent application associated with the network element for communicating command acknowledgment and command requests through the computer Internet between the element management server and the network element using a simple node management protocol, and including the steps of
• establishing a set of SNMP service objects that communicate with the network element, establishing a SNMP mediator process that communicates with the SNMP service objects,
• polling for the SNMP service objects, and
• converting commands of a managed object to SNMP set commands;
• monitoring the operation of events within the communication network;
• and
• diminishing the operation of events to prevent overloading of the communication system.

In a telecommunications network having a plurality of network elements, a method of managing at least one of the network elements, comprising the steps of:

• connecting a management computer to an element management server through a communication link including a computer internet;
• coupling the at least one of the plurality of network elements to the element management server through the computer internet in which the network element has a management agent application;
• managing the at least one of the plurality of network elements via communications conveyed through the element management server between the management computer and the at least one network element;
• queuing multiple commands simultaneously received from a plurality of different management computers including the one management computer;
• and
• successive responding to the multiple commands by sending responses to appropriate ones of the different management computers that originated the commands, respectively.