Diversity monitoring for communication network circuits

A system for monitoring communication circuits, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
• gathering information regarding the communication circuits,
• receiving diversity rules for the communication circuits, the diversity rules indicating desired diversity statuses of the communication circuits within a communications network,
• analyzing the information regarding the communication circuits to identify violations of the diversity rules,
• receiving a work order comprising a list of proposed modifications to the communications network,
• analyzing the work order to identify further violations of the diversity rules that would occur if the list of proposed modifications to the communications network were implemented,
• generating a diversity report comprising the violations of the diversity rules, the diversity report further comprising an indication of the further violations of the diversity rules that would occur if the list of proposed modifications to the communications network were implemented,
• receiving an exclusion list specifying known violations that are to be marked within the diversity report as exclusions to be ignored, wherein the exclusion list comprises expiration dates and times for each of the exclusions in order to prevent the exclusions from being permanently ignored, and wherein one of the exclusions comprises an improperly identified diversity fault that only shows as a fault because of a measuring mechanism,
• matching a known violation from the exclusion list to a violation of the diversity rules from the diversity report, wherein the violation of the diversity rules from the diversity report matching the known violation comprises a false positive identification that can be ignored for purposes of applying results from the diversity report to the communications network to improve diversity of the communications network,
• marking, in the diversity report, the violation of the diversity rules that matches the known violation from the exclusion list as an exclusion, and
• causing the results from the diversity report to be applied to the communications network to improve the diversity of the communications network.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• gathering information regarding circuits within a communications network;
• receiving diversity rules for the circuits, the diversity rules indicating desired diversity statuses of the circuits within the communications network;
• analyzing the information regarding the circuits to identify violations of the diversity rules;
• receiving a work order comprising a list of proposed modifications to the communications network;
• analyzing the work order to identify further violations of the diversity rules that would occur if the list of proposed modifications to the communications network were implemented;
• generating a diversity report comprising the violations of the diversity rules, the diversity report further comprising an indication of the further violations of the diversity rules that would occur if the list of proposed modifications to the communications network were implemented;
• receiving an exclusion list specifying known violations that are to be marked within the diversity report as exclusions to be ignored, wherein the exclusion list comprises expiration dates and times for each of the exclusions in order to prevent the exclusions from being permanently ignored, and wherein one of the exclusions comprises an improperly identified diversity fault that only shows as a fault because of a measuring mechanism;
• matching a known violation from the exclusion list to a violation of the diversity rules from the diversity report, wherein the violation of the diversity rules from the diversity report matching the known violation comprises a false positive identification that can be ignored for purposes of applying results from the diversity report to the communications network to improve diversity of the communications network
• marking, in the diversity report, the violation of the diversity rules that matches the known violation from the exclusion list as an exclusion;
• and
• causing the results from the diversity report to be applied to the communications network to improve the diversity of the communications network.