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US 7,254,628 B2Granted
Network management system with validation of policies
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsMark Koops, Paul Labrogere, Francis Detot
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Abstract
A network management system (NMS) including a policy manager (PM) associated with a set of policies and including distribution means for sending said policies to policy enforcement points (PEP1, PEP2, PEP3, PEP4) in accordance with distribution instructions via policy decision points (PDP1, PDP2), characterized in that said policy manager further includes validation means for validating if said policy enforcement points can enforce said policies and correcting said distribution instructions as a function of said validation.
Claims15
A network management system comprising:
- policy enforement points applying policies to equipment units;
- policy decision points connected to the policy enforcement points;
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- a policy manager associated with said policies and comprising:
- distribution means for sending said policies to said policy enforcement points in accordance with distribution instructions via said decision points,
- means for receiving capability profiles of said policy enforcement points, and
- validation means for validating if said policy enforcement points can enforce said policies, as a function of said capability profiles, and correcting said distribution instructions as a function of said validation.
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A policy decision point, comprising:
- means for receiving capability profiles from policy enforcement points;
- means for validating whether said policy enforcement points can enforce policies based on the received capability profiles;
- means for correcting distribution instructions indicating which of said policy enforcement points are to receive some of said policies, based on said validation;
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- means for sending said received capability profiles to a policy manager,
- wherein said policies are sent by said policy manager of a network management system to said policy enforcement points via said policy decision point based on the distribution instructions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.