Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-07-28
2000-05-09
Homere, Jean R.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 9, 707203, 707204, 711118, 39520031, 39520038, 39520047, G06F 1730, G06F 15173
Patent
active
060616857
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
The present invention relates to a system for providing a managing system which manages a number of managed systems with information. The invention also relates to a managing system which is provided with information. The invention further relates to a method for providing a managing system managing a number of managed systems with information. Still further the invention relates to a telecommunications system comprising a number of managing systems each managing a number of managed systems in which the managing systems are provided with information.
Generally the amount of information relating to most managed systems is very high and complex to handle in ain optimum way both because of the amount and because of the difficulty in getting access to the information that is really accurate, i.e. information that is correct for the purpose, up-to-date and for example comprises the particular version or revision etc. that is actually needed. Thus in systems known tcday, the provision of the particular piece of information that is needed is a difficult issue both because of the amount of information and because the information is not time-invariant, i.e. it is up-dated, changed etc.
Mostly, therefore, various tools are needied to enable the provision of information and support the user interaction with various managed systems.
In a number of systems which are known today managed systems comprise so called network elements which comprise various services and/or resources wherein in the network elements are comprised in a telecommunications network. The network comprises a considerable amount of various types of equipment but also a high number of various services may be comprised. Furthermore equipment of one and the same type may be provided in a number of different versions and revisions. Thus the different services and resources which are provided in the network element may be very complex for a user to handle, monitor and control. The information as such may comprise substantially all kinds of information that is needed by the user who interacts with the managed system, particularly it may describe usage, limitations, procedures, error-print-outs and so on.
The managing system, in the known embodiment referred to as operations system, which here is used to monitor and control the equipment and the services provided by the network elements must know what information is related to a given piece of equipment or to a service. The operations system must also be informed on possible changes to the equipment and the services. This requires that new information is made available to the operations systems. This is both complicated and complex and it gets more difficult the higher the number of equipment and services existing. In order to facilitate the user interaction with the network elements it is known from the known system to provide graphical tools for the user interface. However, even if the user interface is explanatory and the user interaction is facilitated, it is also important that the information is correct and up-to-date.
This puts requirements on a correlation of the information with the concept described by the information. A further complicating factor is that the operations system sometimes exist in a multilingual environment.
In order to provide an up-to-date information the information is in the known system manually transferred to the operation systems. This gets very complex since it is necessary to maintain knowledge of which operations systems are used for managing a particular set of equipment and/or services. Furthermore, when new equipment or new services are introduced in the network elements, it may be necessary to introduce new information to the operations systems which is time consuming in a complex environment. The more complex the environment, the more time it takes. During the time spent on introducing this new information to the operations systems, the operations systems still work with the old piece of information relating to the concerned equipment or the concerned ser
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Homere Jean R.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
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