Provisioning method and system

A method of resuming a failed Customer Service Order (CSO) for provisioning one or more Network Elements, comprising:

• calling a provisioning logic to re-execute the failed CSO, the failed CSO comprising:
• a successfully completed part corresponding to commands successfully completed during a previous execution of the failed CSO, the previous execution of the failed CSO causing generation of historical processing data;
• an uncompleted part corresponding to commands not successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO;
• directing the successfully completed part of the failed CSO to a fake environment in which the commands successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO are fulfilled by retrieving the historical processing data;
• and
• directing commands corresponding to the uncompleted part of the failed CSO to actual Network Elements.

An apparatus configured to resume a failed Customer Service Order (CSO) for provisioning one or more Network Elements, the failed CSO comprising a successfully completed part and an uncompleted part, the successfully completed part corresponding to commands successfully completed during a previous execution of the failed CSO, the uncompleted part corresponding to commands not successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO, the previous execution of the CSO causing generation of historical processing data, the apparatus comprising:

• a memory for storing the historical processing data;
• one or more processing circuits configured to function as a provisioning logic framework, the provisioning logic framework configured to call a provisioning logic in order to re-execute the failed CSO by:
• directing the successfully completed part of the failed CSO to a fake environment in which the commands successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO are fulfilled by retrieving the historical processing data;
• and
• directing commands corresponding to an uncompleted part of the failed CSO to actual Network Elements.

A provisioning system, comprising:

• a memory for storing historical processing data stored from a previous execution of one or more Customer Service Orders (CSOs), at least one of the one or more CSOs being a failed CSO comprising:
• a successfully completed part corresponding to commands successfully completed during a previous execution of the failed CSO;
• an uncompleted part corresponding to commands not successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO;
• and
• one or more processing circuits configured to function as a provisioning logic framework that:
• hosts at least one provisioning logic;
• communicates with one or more Network Elements;
• and
• is configured to resume the failed CSO for provisioning the one or more Network Elements by calling a provisioning logic to re-execute the failed CSO, in which:
• the successfully completed part of the failed CSO is directed to a fake environment in which the commands successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO are fulfilled by retrieving the historical processing data;
• and
• commands corresponding to an uncompleted part of the failed CSO are directed to actual Network elements.

A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising program instructions that, when executed by one or more processing circuits associated with a provisioning system, cause the provisioning system to provision one or more Network Elements, the computer program instructions causing the provisioning system to:

• call respective provisioning logic for performing a Customer Service Order (CSO) received from a Business Support System, the CSO comprising:
• a successfully completed part corresponding to commands successfully completed during a previous execution of the CSO, the previous execution of the CSO causing generation of historical processing data;
• an uncompleted part corresponding to commands not successfully completed during the previous execution of the CSO;
• in response to detecting that the performance of the CSO is to be resumed from the previous execution of the CSO, re-executing the CSO by:
• directing the successfully completed part of the CSO to a fake environment in which the commands successfully completed during the previous execution of the CSO are fulfilled by retrieving the historical processing data;
• and
• directing commands corresponding to the uncompleted part of the CSO to actual Network Elements.

A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium and comprising program instructions that, when executed by one or more processing circuits associated with a provisioning system, cause the provisioning system to resume a failed Customer Service Order (CSO) for provisioning one or more Network Elements, the computer program instructions causing the provisioning system to:

• call a provisioning logic for re-executing the failed CSO, the failed CSO comprising a successfully completed part and an uncompleted part, the successfully completed part corresponding to commands successfully completed during a previous execution of the failed CSO, the uncompleted part corresponding to commands not successfully completed during the previous execution of the failed CSO, the previous execution of the CSO causing generation of historical processing data, the re-executing comprising:
• directing the successfully completed part of the failed CSO to a fake environment in which the commands successfully completed of the failed CSO are fulfilled by retrieving the historical processing data;
• and
• directing commands corresponding to an uncompleted part of the failed CSO to actual Network Elements.