CN105703923A - Network asset information demonstration method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and device for displaying network asset information, wherein the method includes: acquiring asset information in a designated network, wherein the asset information at least includes: assets in the designated network, asset types of assets, and asset performance of assets; Automatic layout of asset information based on asset type to generate a topology; draw asset information display methods on the topology and display asset information. The present invention solves the problem that the performance indicators in the networking cannot be visually displayed in the related art, and further realizes the visual display of the network structure, performance indicators, and equipment status, and improves user experience.

Description

Method and device for displaying network asset information

technical field

The present invention relates to the communication field, in particular, to a method and device for displaying network asset information.

Background technique

As the packet transport network (Packet Transfer Network, PTN for short) technology becomes more and more mature, the application scale becomes larger and larger, and the networking situation becomes more and more complicated. In this regard, China Mobile Group specially formulated a unified specification to unify the content and calculation method of performance indicators. Due to the complex calculation of the performance indicators involved, there are many in number and different forms of expression. How to display these key performance indicators to the operation and maintenance personnel, so that they can grasp the network operation status at any time, and predict the operation risks of various resources, this kind of demand has become increasingly urgent.

Aiming at the problem in related technologies that the performance indicators in the networking cannot be visually displayed, no effective solution has been proposed yet.

Contents of the invention

The present invention provides a method and device for displaying network asset information, so as to at least solve the problem in the related art that the performance indicators in the networking cannot be displayed intuitively.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for displaying network asset information is provided, including: acquiring asset information in a designated network, wherein the asset information includes at least: assets in the designated network, assets of the assets type, asset performance of the asset; automatically layout the asset information according to the asset type to generate a topological structure; draw the display mode of the asset information on the topological structure and display the asset information.

Further, the assets include one of the following: network elements in the designated network, and links between the network elements.

Further, drawing the presentation manner of the asset information on the topology structure and displaying the asset information includes: drawing the presentation manner of the asset information on the topology structure using a drawing technology Flex.

Further, drawing the display mode of the asset information on the topology structure includes: for the network element, drawing the display mode of the network element in the form of a multi-layer ring, wherein different rings indicate different network element information.

Further, for the innermost ring in the multi-layer rings, different colors are used to indicate different performance indexes of the network elements.

Further, for any ring in the multi-layer ring except the innermost ring, it indicates the alarm information of the network element.

Further, displaying the asset information includes: receiving a trigger instruction for the network element on the topological structure; and displaying the identification information of the network element under the trigger of the trigger instruction.

Further, the display method of drawing the network element in the form of a multi-layer ring includes: displaying the designated performance data of the network element through a pop-up window function.

Further, displaying the asset performance of the network element also includes at least one of the following: displaying specified resources included in the network element; displaying traffic data of the system to which the network element belongs; Display the topology of the performance indicators of the network elements.

Further, displaying the asset performance of the network element includes: displaying the asset performance of the network element by using a technology of embedding Flex into Hypertext Markup Language Html.

Further, displaying the asset performance of the link includes: using different colors to display different performance indicators of the link.

Further, displaying the asset performance of the link includes: displaying the performance index of the link through a virtual logical link; wherein, the virtual logical link represents the maximum value of the performance index in the link Or the virtual logical link represents an average value of the performance indicators of each of the links.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a device for displaying network asset information, including: an acquisition module, configured to acquire asset information in a designated network, wherein the asset information includes at least: Assets, the asset type of the asset, and the asset performance of the asset; a generation module, used to automatically layout the asset information according to the asset type, and generate a topology; a display module, used to display on the topology Drawing the presentation manner of the asset information and displaying the asset information.

Further, the assets include one of the following: network elements in the designated network, and links between the network elements.

Further, the presentation module is also used to draw a presentation manner of the asset information on the topological structure by using the drawing technology Flex.

Further, the display module is further configured to, for the network element, draw the display manner of the network element in the form of multi-layer rings, wherein different rings indicate different network element information.

Further, the display module is also used to display different performance indicators of the link in different colors.

Further, the display module is also used to display the performance index of the link through the virtual logical link; wherein, the performance index of the virtual logical link represents the maximum value of the performance index in the link or the The performance index of the virtual logical link represents the average value of the performance index of each said link.

According to the present invention, asset information in a specified network is obtained, wherein the asset information at least includes: assets in a specified network, asset types of assets, and asset performance of assets; asset information is automatically laid out according to asset types to generate a topology structure; Draw the presentation of asset information on the topology and display the asset information. It solves the problem that the performance indicators in the networking cannot be displayed intuitively in related technologies, and then realizes the intuitive display of the network structure, performance indicators, and device status, and improves user experience.

Description of drawings

The accompanying drawings described here are used to provide a further understanding of the present invention and constitute a part of the application. The schematic embodiments of the present invention and their descriptions are used to explain the present invention and do not constitute improper limitations to the present invention. In the attached picture:

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for displaying network asset information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for displaying network asset information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a flow chart showing the performance of the PTN network according to the topology of the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a global topology according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a network element toolTip according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing network element link performance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a link toolTip according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of network element mining according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of system mining according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings and examples. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other.

In this embodiment, a method for displaying network asset information is provided. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for displaying network asset information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the process includes the following steps:

Step S102, acquiring asset information in the designated network, wherein the asset information at least includes: assets in the designated network, asset type of the asset, and asset performance of the asset;

Step S104, automatically layout the asset information according to the asset type, and generate a topology structure;

Step S106 , draw the presentation mode of the asset information on the topological structure and display the asset information.

Through the above steps, according to the acquired asset information in the network, the asset information is displayed topologically. Compared with the related technologies, the performance indicators in the networking are different. The problem of visually displaying the performance indicators in the network, and then realize the intuitive display of the network structure, performance indicators, and device status, and improve the user experience.

The assets involved in the asset information may include: network elements in a specified network or links between network elements.

The above step S106 involves drawing and displaying the asset information display method on the topology structure and displaying the asset information. It should be noted that the asset information display method can be drawn on the topology structure through various technologies. The following is an example to illustrate this . In an optional embodiment, the presentation method of the asset information may be drawn on the topological structure by using the drawing technology Flex.

The following uses the above asset as an example to illustrate:

As for the network element, in an optional embodiment, the presentation manner of the network element is drawn in the form of multi-layer rings, where different rings indicate different network element information.

In an optional embodiment, for the innermost ring in the multi-layer ring, different colors are used to indicate different performance indicators of the network element. In another optional embodiment, for any ring except the innermost ring in the multi-layer rings, the alarm information of the network element is indicated. For example, the display mode of the network element is drawn in the form of double-layer rings, wherein the inner ring is used to represent the performance index of the network element, and the outer ring is used to represent the alarm information of the network element.

In the process of displaying the asset information of the network element, the basic information of the network element can also be displayed. In an optional embodiment, a trigger instruction for the network element is received on the topology structure, and under the trigger of the trigger instruction, The identification information of the network element is displayed, so that it can be specified which network element's performance index the displayed performance index is.

In an optional embodiment, the specified performance data of the network element is displayed through a pop-up window function. For example, if the user hovers the mouse over the specified network element, the specific performance data can be displayed in the pop-up window function.

In the case where the above-mentioned network element supports the resource drilling function, in an optional embodiment, displaying the asset performance of the network element also includes displaying the specified resources contained in the network element, and displaying the traffic of the system to which the network element belongs The data is displayed, and the performance indicators of the network elements in different time periods are displayed topologically. Therefore, not only the topology shows the performance of the network element, but also the performance of the system to which the network element belongs and the performance of the resources contained in the network element.

In an optional embodiment, the asset performance of the network element is displayed by using the technology of embedding Flex in the hypertext markup language Html.

The following uses the above asset as an example to illustrate:

In an optional embodiment, different colors are used to display different performance indexes of the link, thereby displaying the asset performance of the link.

For the display of link asset performance, the performance index of the actual link can be displayed through the virtual logical link. In an optional embodiment, the virtual logical link is used to represent the maximum value of the performance index in the link or the virtual logical link The path represents the average value of the performance index of each link.

In this embodiment, a device for displaying network asset information is also provided. The device is used to implement the above embodiments and preferred implementation modes, and what has already been described will not be repeated. As used below, the term "module" may be a combination of software and/or hardware that realizes a predetermined function. Although the devices described in the following embodiments are preferably implemented in software, implementations in hardware, or a combination of software and hardware are also possible and contemplated.

FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for displaying network asset information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2 , the apparatus includes: an acquisition module 22 configured to acquire asset information in a specified network, wherein the asset information includes at least: Specify the assets in the network, the asset types of the assets, and the asset performance of the assets; the generating module 24 is used to automatically layout the asset information according to the asset type, and generate a topology; the display module 26 is used to draw the asset information on the topology Display method and display the asset information.

Optionally, the assets include one of the following: network elements in a specified network, and links between network elements.

Optionally, the display module 26 is further configured to use the drawing technology Flex to draw a display manner of the asset information on the topological structure.

Optionally, the display module 26 is further configured to, for the network element, draw the display manner of the network element in the form of multi-layer rings, where different rings indicate different network element information.

Optionally, the display module 26 is further configured to use different colors to display different performance indicators of the link.

Optionally, the display module 26 is also used to display the performance index of the link through a virtual logical link; wherein, the virtual logical link represents the maximum value of the performance index in the link or the virtual logical link represents each The average value of the performance indicators of the link.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned modules can be implemented by software or hardware. For the latter, it can be implemented in the following manner, but not limited to this: the acquisition module 22, the generation module 24 and the display module 26 are all located in the same processor or, the obtaining module 22, the generating module 24 and the display module 26 are respectively located in the first processor, the second processor and the third processor.

In the following, the above-mentioned designated network is a PTN network as an example for illustration.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the performance of the PTN network according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 3, the assets and asset types in the networking are topologically drawn and displayed.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a global topology according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4 , it shows a topology structure of network elements and links between network elements in a networking.

Flex technology can be embedded in the browser to display dynamic content flexibly. It is suitable for displaying PTN topology results and performance changes, and has the characteristics of good interactivity and rich forms of expression.

Network element (that is, PTN network equipment, hereinafter referred to as network element) drawing: use Flex’s drawing technology to draw a double-layer ring, and use Flex’s image loading technology in the middle to add pictures with changing colors. There are seven kinds of colors from light to dark. , showing the utilization degree of the network element performance; use the Flex label (Label) component on the network element to add the basic information of the network element. Compared with the traditional picture representation of a single device, our display method can display network elements more vividly, making it clear to users at a glance.

Network element display: Each part of the network element has its specific meaning. The outer ring shows the alarm of the network element in a certain period of time. The color changes according to the alarm level. There are four types from light to deep; the inner ring and The picture with the changing color shows a certain performance of the network element, such as the average utilization rate of the central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, referred to as CPU); the upper label shows the name and IP address of the network element. Have a general understanding of network element information, and focus on network elements with serious alarms or high performance utilization.

Network element performance: use the Flex event mechanism, DataGrid components, containers, data binding and other functions to realize the pop-up window function for displaying performance, that is, the toolTip.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a toolTip of a network element according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5 , if a user wants to view other performance data of a network element, the mouse stays on the network element, and the specific performance data is displayed in the Tooltip. At the same time, it provides a variety of performance display methods. Using the technology of Flex embedded in Html, the multi-level drilling function of network elements can be realized, and the upstream and downstream assets of network elements can be viewed, as well as their own performance display and chart display, giving users a three-dimensional view. a feeling of.

Network element configuration: Realize the configurability of network element performance display. Users can set it according to the performance they want to see most, and display it in the network element memory circle to realize customized requirements.

Period setting: Customize the time selection component of Flex, and it can display whether there is asset performance at each time point, making it more convenient for users to use. Set different cycle time points by quarter, hour, day, month, year, etc., and can view performance at any point in time, providing a full range of performance viewing.

Link analysis:

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing network element link performance according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. Colors such as red indicate the degree of link performance load from low to high, and you can intuitively see the performance of the link. At the same time, the performance indicators represented by the color can be set. In the settings, the attributes displayed on the link can be set to: the peak value of sink-source bandwidth utilization, the average value of sink-source bandwidth utilization, and the average value of sink-source bandwidth utilization during busy hours. At the same time, the color range can be set, and colors such as gray, green, yellow, orange, and red can be matched to the range of performance values to meet the actual usage habits of users. For example, 0 is gray, 0% to 30% is green, 30% to 50% is yellow, 50% to 80% is orange, and more than 80% is red, so that users can see the current link at a glance through the color performance on.

When the topology diagram shows the relationship between systems, if there is a link relationship between two network elements, a virtual logical link is used to represent the link relationship between the two systems. Similarly, there are also virtual logical links between regions and cities to represent the link relationship between regions and cities. The logical link represents the performance according to the same color. When there may be multiple links between the network elements in the two systems, the logical link represents the multiple actual topology links, and its performance defaults to select the actual The highest performance value in the link, which is displayed on the logical link. At the same time, the logical link can be set to display the average value of the performance of each link.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a link toolTip according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 7, when you need to know the detailed performance information of a link, you can hover the mouse over the actual link or logical link, and the The detailed performance parameters of multiple links represented by the link are displayed in the form of a table, which is an effective supplement to the link color display performance.

Topology Mining:

Topology supports drilling down. When the topology diagram shows the relationship between systems, you can right-click on the system and select "Show NE" in the pop-up menu. Vertical mining of network elements. At the same time, you can choose "display system" and "display network element" in the area, and you can choose "display area", "display system" and "display network element" in the market.

Network elements support resource drilling. Right-click on the network element, and a pop-up menu will appear. There are three options: resource drill-up, resource drill-down, and chart browsing. Drilling down resources means to display the resources contained in the network element: ports and boards. You can view the performance tables of ports and boards respectively, and display the specific performance data of ports and boards in detail. On the port, you can view the port flow table under the NE, the port error packet performance table under the NE, and the optical port power table under the NE. On the single board, the performance table of the single board under the network element can be viewed. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of network element mining according to an embodiment of the present invention. When resources are drilled up, the option of the flow table of the system where the network element is located will appear, and the detailed data of the system flow can be displayed in the form of a table. FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of system mining according to an embodiment of the present invention. Chart browsing can display network element performance charts in different time periods. In the chart view, four sub-options can be selected: "Network element performance table by hour", "Network element performance table by time", "Network element performance table by day", and "Network element performance table by month", each sub-option is divided into NE summary view, NE performance data table, NE CPU utilization trend graph, NE memory utilization trend graph, and NE detection point temperature trend graph. From here, you can browse to the icons of each performance of the NE.

To sum up, through the present invention, the data collected by PTN equipment is used for calculation and analysis, and the performance model, topology structure, and mining dimensions are refined, and then the network structure, performance indicators, and equipment status are displayed through Flex technology, making the network more vivid and accurate. performance, allowing operation and maintenance personnel to manage the PTN network more intuitively, and improving the maintainability of the PTN network.

In another embodiment, software is also provided, and the software is used to implement the technical solutions described in the above embodiments and preferred implementation manners.

In another embodiment, there is also provided a storage medium, in which the software is stored, the storage medium includes but not limited to: optical discs, floppy disks, hard disks, rewritable memories, and the like.

Obviously, those skilled in the art should understand that each module or each step of the above-mentioned present invention can be realized by a general-purpose computing device, and they can be concentrated on a single computing device, or distributed in a network formed by multiple computing devices Alternatively, they may be implemented in program code executable by a computing device so that they may be stored in a storage device to be executed by a computing device, and in some cases in an order different from that shown here The steps shown or described are carried out, or they are separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or multiple modules or steps among them are fabricated into a single integrated circuit module for implementation. As such, the present invention is not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. For those skilled in the art, the present invention may have various modifications and changes. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention shall be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (18)

1. A method for displaying network asset information, comprising: Acquiring asset information in a designated network, where the asset information includes at least: assets in the designated network, asset types of the assets, and asset performance of the assets; automatically layout the asset information according to the asset type, and generate a topology; Drawing the presentation manner of the asset information on the topological structure and displaying the asset information. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the assets include one of the following: Network elements in the specified network and links between network elements. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein drawing the display mode of the asset information on the topological structure and displaying the asset information comprises: The display method of the asset information is drawn on the topological structure by using the drawing technology Flex. 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein drawing the presentation of the asset information on the topological structure comprises: For the network element, the display manner of the network element is drawn in the form of multi-layer rings, where different rings indicate different network element information. 5. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that, for the innermost ring in the multi-layer rings, different colors are used to indicate different performance indexes of the network elements. 6 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein, for any ring in the multi-layer ring except the innermost ring, the alarm information of the network element is indicated. 6 . 7. The method according to claim 3, wherein displaying the asset information comprises: receiving a trigger instruction for the network element on the topology; Under the trigger of the trigger instruction, display the identification information of the network element. 8. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that the presentation of drawing the network element in the form of a multi-layer ring comprises: The specified performance data of the network element is displayed through a pop-up window function. 9. The method according to claim 3, wherein displaying the asset performance of the network element further comprises at least one of the following: displaying specified resources included in the network element; displaying traffic data of the system to which the network element belongs; Topological display of network element performance indicators in different time periods. 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein displaying the asset performance of the network element comprises: The asset performance of the network element is displayed by using the technology of embedding the hypertext markup language Html with Flex. 11. The method according to claim 3, wherein displaying the asset performance of the link comprises: Use different colors to display different performance indicators of the link. 12. The method according to claim 11, wherein displaying the asset performance of the link comprises: Display the performance index of the link through the virtual logical link; Wherein, the performance index of the virtual logical link is the maximum value of the performance index in the link, or the performance index of the virtual logical link represents an average value of the performance indexes of each of the links. 13. A display device for network asset information, comprising: An acquisition module, configured to acquire asset information in a designated network, wherein the asset information at least includes: assets in the designated network, asset types of the assets, and asset performance of the assets; a generating module, configured to automatically layout the asset information according to the asset type, and generate a topology; A display module, configured to draw a display manner of the asset information on the topological structure and display the asset information. 14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the asset comprises one of the following: Network elements in the specified network and links between network elements. 15 . The device according to claim 14 , wherein the display module is further configured to use a drawing technology Flex to draw a display manner of the asset information on the topological structure. 16 . 16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the display module is further configured to, for the network element, draw the display mode of the network element in the form of a multi-layer ring, wherein different circles Rings indicate different network element information. 17. The device according to claim 15, wherein the display module is further configured to use different colors to display different performance indicators of the link. 18. The device according to claim 17, wherein the display module is further configured to display the performance index of the link through a virtual logical link; wherein, the performance index of the virtual logical link represents The maximum value of the performance index in the link or the performance index of the virtual logical link represents an average value of the performance index of each link.