CN1437325A - Reliable communicator maintaining method - Google Patents

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CN1437325A
CN1437325A CN 02103926 CN02103926A CN1437325A CN 1437325 A CN1437325 A CN 1437325A CN 02103926 CN02103926 CN 02103926 CN 02103926 A CN02103926 A CN 02103926A CN 1437325 A CN1437325 A CN 1437325A
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The present invention relates to one reliable communication maintaining method. When the main control board for the maintenance in the communicator receives the data message from the network management station, if judges whether the main control board is the on-line main board for completing management and maintenance task, and if so, it treats the received data message before returning the treated data to the network management station; and or else, the board as off-line board re-transmits the data message via the re-transmitting module to the data processing module in the main board in use for processing the processed before returning the treated data to the network management station. The method of the present invention makes it possible to maintain the communicator reliably.

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The method of reliable communicator maintaining
Technical field
The present invention relates to the method that a kind of communication equipment is safeguarded, relate in particular to after master control borad main board and standby plate switch in a kind of communication equipment still the method that can safeguard communication equipment.
Background technology
At present, in order to improve the communication equipment reliability of operation, be provided with main board and standby plate respectively in communication equipment, when guaranteeing that main board breaks down, standby plate can be taken over the work of main board.Yet after main board and standby plate switching, the communication equipment maintenance work of being undertaken by main board serial ports or maintenance network port will be affected, and can't continue communication equipment is safeguarded.
The scheme that solves main board and standby plate switching back communication equipment maintenance issues in the prior art has two kinds: a kind of scheme is only to adopt a cover to safeguard that line is connected on the maintenance port of current main board, main board and standby plate manually will be safeguarded on the main board after line switches to switching after switching; Another kind of scheme is all to be connected with a cover to safeguard line on main board and standby plate, safeguards line so that main board and standby plate switch still to be connected with on the main board maintenance port of back, guarantees the continuity of communication equipment maintenance work.
There is following shortcoming respectively in above-mentioned two kinds of solutions: first kind of scheme must be safeguarded line by artificial changing-over, maintenance mode is cumbersome, and when network management workstation (NMS) the distance communication equipment of being responsible for maintain communications equipment was far away, this artificial changing-over safeguarded that the mode of line almost can't realize; Though second kind of scheme all is connected on the main board of communication equipment and standby plate and safeguards line, but only use a cover wherein to safeguard line in the practical maintenance, if being in the work that maintenance line in the use breaks down then communication equipment is safeguarded can only stop, and after main board and standby plate switching, also must change group new number foundation again and safeguard employed Internet protocol (IP) address and media interviews control (MAC) address in line or the change maintenance process, different to adapt to main board with the standby plate maintenance parameters, the necessary situation of using different maintenance parameters after the switching.
Summary of the invention
The method that the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of reliable communicator maintaining can realize that main board and the standby plate switching back network management workstation (NMS) in the communication equipment still can reliably be safeguarded communication equipment easily.
The object of the present invention is achieved like this: the method for reliable communicator maintaining, be a kind of method of communication equipment being safeguarded by master control borad, and comprising:
(1) data message that is used for maintain communications equipment sent by master control borad received communication plant maintenance module of communication equipment, the communication equipment maintenance module by with communication equipment between communicate by letter communication equipment safeguarded;
(2) judge whether this master control borad is main board, and main board is the master control borad that is used to finish communication equipment management maintenance task; Main board in this way, execution in step (3), otherwise this master control borad is a standby plate, standby plate is the master control borad that is in stand-by state, execution in step (4);
(3) data processing module of main board is handled the data message that receives, and data processing module is used for the data message that is used for maintain communications equipment that receives is handled execution in step (5):
(4) standby plate is transmitted to the data message that receives the data processing module of main board by forwarding module, forwarding module is used to transmit the data message that is received, after handling this data message, data processing module in the main board returns the forwarding module of standby plate, execution in step (5);
(5) will return the communication equipment maintenance module through the data message after the main board data processing module is handled.
Described master control borad receives that to be used for data message that communication equipment safeguards be that serial ports by master control borad receives.
Described master control borad receives that to be used for data message that communication equipment safeguards be that network interface by master control borad receives, and, forwarding module on described main board and the standby plate disposes interconnected fidonetFido (IP) address respectively, utilizes this implicit IP address to carry out the forwarding of data message.
The master control borad that described reception is used for the data message of maintain communications equipment is a main board.
The master control borad that described reception is used for the data message of maintain communications equipment is a standby plate.
The master control borad that described reception is used for the data message of maintain communications equipment is main board and standby plate.
By such scheme as can be seen, the present invention is after the main board of communication equipment breaks down and switches to business in the former standby plate, and NMS still can safeguard communication equipment easily.Solve in the prior art one-dimensional and protected the line scheme and after communication equipment switches, need manual switchover to safeguard line, safeguarded inconvenient problem; The present invention simultaneously also can make and existingly twoly safeguard that in the line scheme two safeguard that line safeguards communication equipment jointly, thereby make maintenance work more reliable, and after active and standby switching, need not to do the maintenance channel that any work can guarantee communication equipment and advance freely.
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Fig. 1 is a communication equipment single line enclosed structure schematic diagram;
Fig. 2 is the flow chart when communicating plant maintenance by the master control borad serial ports;
Fig. 3 is the flow chart when communicating plant maintenance by the master control borad network interface.
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The maintenance work of communication equipment normally is responsible for by NMS, serial ports or network interface and the communication equipment of NMS by main board in the communication equipment or standby plate communicates, realization is to the maintenance of communication equipment, as shown in Figure 1, NMS can safeguard communication equipment by modulator-demodulator (MODEM), telephone network, modulator-demodulator (MODEM) and maintenance serial port, also can safeguard communication equipment by the Internet or local area network (LAN) and maintenance network port.Now the specific embodiment of the present invention is described respectively in conjunction with two kinds of communication equipment maintaining methods of the prior art.
Have only a cover to safeguard that line, the maintenance work of communication equipment are that serial ports by master control borad carries out in communication equipment, referring to Fig. 2, communication equipment can be safeguarded by following process:
Step 1: master control borad receives the data message that NMS sends by serial ports;
Step 2: judge whether this master control borad is main board, if main board, execution in step 3, otherwise this master control borad is a standby plate, execution in step 4;
Main board is for being in state of activation, and the master control borad of the management maintenance work of responsible communication equipment;
Standby plate is ready at all times to take over the work of existing main board for being in stand-by state;
When present main board breaks down or the people is when enabling present standby plate, present standby plate is taken over the work of present main board and is upgraded to main board after the switching, and present main board then becomes standby plate after switching;
Step 3: the data processing module of main board is handled the data message that NMS sends, execution in step;
Step 4: the data message that NMS is sent sends to the forwarding module of standby plate, execution in step 5;
Step 5: the forwarding module of standby plate is with the forwarding module of this data message forwarding to main board, execution in step 6;
Step 6: the forwarding module of main board is submitted to the data processing module of main board, execution in step 7 with this data message;
Step 7: the data processing module of main board is handled the data message that NMS sends, execution in step 8;
Step 8: will send to standby plate, execution in step 9 through the data message after the data processing module of main board is handled;
Step 9: the data message after will handling returns NMS.
As mentioned above, when main board break down or the people for enabling standby plate, when switching to management maintenance work on the present standby plate, present standby plate becomes main board after switching, the data message that is used for maintain communications equipment that NMS sends still can be forwarded to main board after the switching by forwarding module, return NMS after handling by the data processing module on the main board after switching, thereby guaranteed the continuity of communication equipment maintenance work.
When all being provided with on the primary, spare plate of communication equipment when safeguarding line, article two, safeguard that line can safeguard communication equipment simultaneously, the maintenance mode of every maintenance line is identical with the maintenance mode that one-dimensional protects line, like this, can make the maintenance work of communication equipment more reliable.
If have only one to safeguard line in the communication equipment, and the maintenance work of communication equipment is to be undertaken by the network interface on the master control borad, the network interface IP address of setting main board is IP1, the network interface IP address of standby plate is IP2, the implicit IP address of the forwarding module of main board is IP3, and the implicit IP address of the forwarding module of standby plate is IP4; After primary, spare plate switches, the standby plate that then switches the work of rear tube management maintenance upgrades to main board, forwarding module implicit IP address wherein is IP3, main board originally then becomes the standby plate after the switching, forwarding module implicit IP address wherein is IP4, referring to Fig. 3, at this moment, communication equipment can following process be safeguarded:
Step 21: master control borad receives the data message that NMS sends by network interface;
Step 22: whether the purpose IP address of master control borad judgment data message is the IP address or the broadcast address of this plate, if the IP address or the broadcast address of this plate, execution in step 23, otherwise, execution in step 24;
Step 23: judge whether this master control borad is main board, if main board, execution in step 25, otherwise this master control borad is a standby plate, execution in step 26;
Step 24: abandon this data message, when next number arrives according to message, execution in step 21;
Step 25: the data processing module of main board is handled the data message that NMS sends, execution in step 29;
Step 26: the source address modification of the data message that NMS is sent is IP4, and destination address is revised as IP3, sends to the forwarding module of main board, execution in step 27;
Step 27: the forwarding module of main board will send to data processing module and handle execution in step 28 from the data message of standby plate;
Step 28: the data message after main board will be handled is transmitted to standby plate by forwarding module, execution in step 29;
Step 29: standby plate receives the return data message of arrival place main board, and the source IP address of this message is extended this as standby plate network interface address ip 2, and destination address extends this as the IP address of NMS, issues NMS by the standby plate network interface.
The implicit IP address of the forwarding module of described primary, spare plate just is used for the data forwarding of communication equipment inside, and external equipment be can't see this address, and implicit IP address is by to the mode appointment of IP stack registration internal interface; Implicit IP address IP3 in the above-mentioned steps can be by specifying when the IP stack of in running order master control borad is registered an internal interface, with seasonal implicit IP address IP4=IP3+n, n=1,2, ..., safeguard the mapping table of an IP4 and data message source address in the standby plate, the mapping that is comprising each IP4 address and data message source address in the mapping table is right, and the right term of validity of mapping, generally be defaulted as 60 seconds, the source address of data message is generally the IP address of NMS, mapping table is used for the source address of record data message and the mapping relations of IP4, can know with this which NMS data message that returns to standby plate from main board should send to.
When all being provided with when safeguarding line on the primary, spare plate of communication equipment by network interface, can allow two to safeguard that line is independent simultaneously communication equipment is safeguarded, also can close one of them network interface, only use one to safeguard that line safeguards communication equipment.
If communication equipment adopts two and safeguards line, and close the network interface of standby plate, so, identical and the MAC Address in the IP address of primary, spare plate is not simultaneously, after primary, spare plate switches, need outwards to send an ARP(Address Resolution Protocol) message, require NMS or two layers of router closing on carry out the renewal of route, guarantee the proper communication between NMS and communication equipment.Certainly for convenience, we can be configured to the IP address of two maintenance network ports of primary, spare plate and MAC Address identical, like this, need not to do any work after primary, spare plate switches and can guarantee that maintenance channel advances freely.

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1, a kind of method of reliable communicator maintaining is a kind of method of communication equipment being safeguarded by master control borad, comprising:
(1) data message that is used for maintain communications equipment sent by master control borad received communication plant maintenance module of communication equipment, the communication equipment maintenance module by with communication equipment between communicate by letter communication equipment safeguarded;
(2) judge whether this master control borad is main board, and main board is the master control borad that is used to finish communication equipment management maintenance task; Main board in this way, execution in step (3), otherwise this master control borad is a standby plate, standby plate is the master control borad that is in stand-by state, execution in step (4);
(3) data processing module of main board is handled the data message that receives, and data processing module is responsible for handling the data message that is used for maintain communications equipment that receives, execution in step (5);
(4) standby plate is transmitted to the data message that receives the data processing module of main board by forwarding module, forwarding module is used to transmit the data message that is received, after handling this data message, data processing module in the main board returns the forwarding module of standby plate, execution in step (5);
(5) will return the communication equipment maintenance module through the data message after the main board data processing module is handled.
2, the method for reliable communicator maintaining according to claim 1 is characterized in that described master control borad receives that to be used for data message that communication equipment safeguards be that serial ports by master control borad receives.
3, the method for reliable communicator maintaining according to claim 1, it is characterized in that described master control borad receives that to be used for data message that communication equipment safeguards be that network interface by master control borad receives, and, forwarding module on described main board and the standby plate disposes interconnected fidonetFido (IP) address respectively, utilizes this implicit IP address to carry out the forwarding of data message.
4, the method for reliable communicator maintaining according to claim 1 is characterized in that the master control borad that described reception is used for the data message of maintain communications equipment is a main board.
5, the method for reliable communicator maintaining according to claim 1 is characterized in that the master control borad that described reception is used for the data message of maintain communications equipment is a standby plate.
6, the method for reliable communicator maintaining according to claim 1 is characterized in that the master control borad that described reception is used for the data message of maintain communications equipment is main board and standby plate.
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