CN110086771B - Method and device for managing protocol conversion equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of video networking, and provides a method and a device for managing protocol conversion equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: registering a master control number allocated to the protocol conversion equipment on the autonomous server by using the client to acquire configuration information of the protocol conversion equipment, wherein the configuration information comprises a hardware address and the master control number of the protocol conversion equipment; sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server; accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment by broadcasting of the video network server; and performing control operation on the service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment by using the master control number, wherein the control operation comprises at least one of adding operation, deleting operation and state query operation. Therefore, the unified management of the protocol conversion equipment in the video networking system can be realized, the flexibility of the protocol conversion equipment is increased, and the efficiency of the video networking system is improved.

Description

Method and device for managing protocol conversion equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of video networking technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for managing protocol conversion devices.

Background

The protocol conversion equipment in the video network provides a multi-access function for service landing equipment on the video network, is mainly used as a gateway for protocol conversion between the internet and the video network, for example, a monitoring camera of each local internet protocol is accessed into the video network, and is presented to relevant departments such as security protection, monitoring and the like through a video network terminal. When the protocol conversion equipment needs to provide a conversion function, an internal tunnel needs to be opened up, one internal tunnel occupies one video networking number, and the capacity of single protocol conversion equipment is 255 tunnels at present, namely 255 numbers are occupied.

In the prior art, the management of the video networking protocol conversion device depends on a network service (web service) provided by the protocol conversion device itself. Firstly, opening a batch of corotation numbers by an administrator, and informing a field engineer of the corotation numbers and hardware addresses; and then, the field engineer opens the number on the protocol conversion equipment for the second time in a tunnel form by using the network service of the protocol conversion equipment.

The management coordination mode needs two steps for opening, and an administrator cannot directly manage in place in one step. Secondly, the opening mode needs an engineer to stay in a field, and the coordinated network service must be logged in on the field to carry out secondary opening. And the networking mode of the video networking server is limited, the network service of the protocol conversion equipment cannot provide remote access, each protocol conversion equipment can normally work only by accessing the video networking server, and each video networking server independently forms an isolated isolation domain, so that the protocol conversion equipment in different isolation domains in the whole country cannot be managed through a centralized management platform.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above problems, embodiments of the present invention are proposed to provide a management method and apparatus for a protocol conversion device that overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.

In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a management method for a protocol conversion device, which is applied to a protocol conversion device of a video networking system, and the method includes:

registering a master control number allocated to a protocol conversion device on an autonomous server by using the client to acquire configuration information of the protocol conversion device, wherein the configuration information comprises a hardware address of the protocol conversion device and the master control number;

sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server;

accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment through the broadcast of the video network server;

and performing control operation on a service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment by using the master control number, wherein the control operation comprises at least one of adding operation, deleting operation and state query operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment.

The invention also provides a management device of the protocol conversion equipment, which is applied to the protocol conversion equipment of the video networking system, and the device comprises:

a number registration module, configured to register, by using the client, a master control number assigned to a protocol conversion device on an autonomous server, so as to obtain configuration information of the protocol conversion device, where the configuration information includes a hardware address of the protocol conversion device and the master control number;

the information sending module is used for sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server;

the equipment network accessing module is used for accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment through the broadcast of the video network server;

and the control operation module is used for controlling a service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment by using the master control number, the control operation comprises at least one of an adding operation, a deleting operation and a state query operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment.

The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:

the embodiment of the invention can be applied to protocol conversion equipment of a video network system, and the client is utilized to register the master control number allocated to the protocol conversion equipment on an autonomous server so as to obtain the configuration information of the protocol conversion equipment, wherein the configuration information comprises the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment and the master control number; sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server; accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment through the broadcast of the video network server; and performing control operation on a service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment by using the master control number, wherein the control operation comprises at least one of adding operation, deleting operation and state query operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment. Therefore, the unified management of the protocol conversion equipment in the video networking system can be realized, the flexibility of the protocol conversion equipment is increased, and the efficiency of the video networking system is improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic networking diagram of a video network of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture of a node server according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an access switch of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an ethernet protocol conversion gateway according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the steps of one embodiment of a method for managing a protocol conversion device;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating the detailed steps of an embodiment of a method for managing a protocol conversion device according to the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a video networking system of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating the detailed steps of an embodiment of a method for managing a protocol conversion device according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating the steps of one embodiment of a method for managing a protocol conversion device;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of the steps of an embodiment of a method of managing a protocol translation device of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a management apparatus of a protocol conversion device according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.

The video networking is an important milestone for network development, is a real-time network, can realize high-definition video real-time transmission, and pushes a plurality of internet applications to high-definition video, and high-definition faces each other.

The video networking adopts a real-time high-definition video exchange technology, can integrate required services such as dozens of services of video, voice, pictures, characters, communication, data and the like in a system on a network system, such as high-definition video conference, video monitoring, intelligent monitoring analysis, emergency command, digital broadcast television, delayed television, network teaching, live broadcast, VOD on demand, television mail, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), intranet (self-office) channels, intelligent video broadcast control, information distribution and the like, and realizes high-definition quality video broadcast through a television or a computer.

To better understand the embodiments of the present invention, the following description refers to the internet of view:

some of the technologies applied in the video networking are as follows:

network technology (network technology)

Network technology innovation in video networking has improved over traditional Ethernet (Ethernet) to face the potentially enormous video traffic on the network. Unlike pure network Packet Switching (Packet Switching) or network Circuit Switching (Circuit Switching), the Packet Switching is adopted by the technology of the video networking to meet the Streaming requirement. The video networking technology has the advantages of flexibility, simplicity and low price of packet switching, and simultaneously has the quality and safety guarantee of circuit switching, thereby realizing the seamless connection of the whole network switching type virtual circuit and the data format.

Switching Technology (Switching Technology)

The video network adopts two advantages of asynchronism and packet switching of the Ethernet, eliminates the defects of the Ethernet on the premise of full compatibility, has end-to-end seamless connection of the whole network, is directly communicated with a user terminal, and directly bears an IP data packet. The user data does not require any format conversion across the entire network. The video networking is a higher-level form of the Ethernet, is a real-time switching system, can realize the large-scale high-definition video real-time transmission of the whole network which can not be realized by the existing Internet, and pushes a plurality of network video applications to high-definition and unification.

Server technology (Servertechnology)

The server technology on video networking and unified video system is different from the traditional server, the streaming media transmission is established on the basis of connection orientation, the data processing capacity is independent of flow and communication time, and a single network layer can contain signaling and data transmission. For voice and video services, the complexity of streaming media processing of video networking and unified video systems is much simpler than that of data processing, and the efficiency is greatly improved by more than one hundred times compared with that of a traditional server.

Storage Technology (Storage Technology)

The super-high speed memory technology of the unified video system adopts the most advanced real-time operating system in order to adapt to the media content with super-large capacity and super-large flow, the program information in the server instruction is mapped to the specific hard disk space, the media content is not passed through the server any more, and is instantly and directly sent to the user terminal, and the user waiting time is less than 0.2 second. The optimized sector distribution greatly reduces the mechanical motion of the magnetic head track seeking of the hard disk, the resource consumption only accounts for 20% of that of the IP internet of the same grade, but concurrent flow which is 3 times larger than that of the traditional hard disk array is generated, and the comprehensive efficiency is improved by more than 10 times.

Network Security Technology (Network Security Technology)

The structural design of the video network completely eliminates the network security problem troubling the internet structurally by the modes of independent service permission control each time, complete isolation of equipment and user data and the like, generally does not need antivirus programs and firewalls, avoids the attack of hackers and viruses, and provides a structural carefree security network for users.

Service Innovation Technology (Service Innovation Technology)

The unified video system integrates services and transmission, and is not only automatically connected once whether a single user, a private network user or a network aggregate. The user terminal, the set-top box or the PC are directly connected to the unified video system to obtain various multimedia video services in various forms. The unified video system adopts a menu type matching table mode to replace the traditional complex application programming, can realize complex application by using very few codes, and realizes new infinite business innovation.

Networking of the video network is as follows:

the video network is a centralized control network structure, and the network can be a tree network, a star network, a ring network and the like, but on the basis of the centralized control node, the whole network is controlled by the centralized control node in the network.

As shown in fig. 1, the video network is divided into an access network and a metropolitan network.

The devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access switch, terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding boards, memories, etc.). The node server is connected to an access switch, which may be connected to a plurality of terminals and may be connected to an ethernet network.

The node server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the access network and can control the access switch and the terminal. The node server can be directly connected with the access switch or directly connected with the terminal.

Similarly, devices of the metropolitan network portion may also be classified into 3 types: a metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server. The metro server is connected to a node switch, which may be connected to a plurality of node servers.

The node server is a node server of the access network part, namely the node server belongs to both the access network part and the metropolitan area network part.

The metropolitan area server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the metropolitan area network and can control a node switch and a node server. The metropolitan area server can be directly connected with the node switch or directly connected with the node server.

Therefore, the whole video network is a network structure with layered centralized control, and the network controlled by the node server and the metropolitan area server can be in various structures such as tree, star and ring.

The access network part can form a unified video system (the part in the dotted circle), and a plurality of unified video systems can form a video network; each unified video system may be interconnected via metropolitan and wide area video networks.

Video networking device classification

1.1 devices in the video network of the embodiment of the present invention can be mainly classified into 3 types: servers, switches (including ethernet gateways), terminals (including various set-top boxes, code boards, memories, etc.). The video network as a whole can be divided into a metropolitan area network (or national network, global network, etc.) and an access network.

1.2 wherein the devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node servers, access switches (including ethernet gateways), terminals (including various set-top boxes, code boards, memories, etc.).

The specific hardware structure of each access network device is as follows:

a node server:

as shown in fig. 2, the system mainly includes a network interface module 201, a switching engine module 202, a CPU module 203, and a disk array module 204;

the network interface module 201, the CPU module 203, and the disk array module 204 all enter the switching engine module 202; the switching engine module 202 performs an operation of looking up the address table 205 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; and stores the packet in a queue of the corresponding packet buffer 206 based on the packet's steering information; if the queue of the packet buffer 206 is nearly full, it is discarded; the switching engine module 202 polls all packet buffer queues for forwarding if the following conditions are met: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero. The disk array module 204 mainly implements control over the hard disk, including initialization, read-write, and other operations on the hard disk; the CPU module 203 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with an access switch and a terminal (not shown in the figure), configuring an address table 205 (including a downlink data packet address table, an uplink data packet address table, and a data packet address table), and configuring the disk array module 204.

The access switch:

as shown in fig. 3, the network interface module mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 301 and an uplink network interface module 302), a switching engine module 303 and a CPU module 304;

wherein, the packet (uplink data) coming from the downlink network interface module 301 enters the packet detection module 305; the packet detection module 305 detects whether the Destination Address (DA), the Source Address (SA), the packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id) and enters the switching engine module 303, otherwise, discards the stream identifier; the packet (downstream data) coming from the upstream network interface module 302 enters the switching engine module 303; the data packet coming from the CPU module 204 enters the switching engine module 303; the switching engine module 303 performs an operation of looking up the address table 306 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is from the downstream network interface to the upstream network interface, the packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 in association with the stream-id; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the data packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 according to the guiding information of the packet; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded.

The switching engine module 303 polls all packet buffer queues, which in this embodiment of the present invention is divided into two cases:

if the queue is from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queued packet counter is greater than zero; 3) obtaining a token generated by a code rate control module;

if the queue is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero.

The rate control module 208 is configured by the CPU module 204, and generates tokens for packet buffer queues from all downstream network interfaces to upstream network interfaces at programmable intervals to control the rate of upstream forwarding.

The CPU module 304 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with the node server, configuration of the address table 306, and configuration of the code rate control module 308.

Ethernet protocol conversion gateway：

As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 401 and an uplink network interface module 402), a switching engine module 403, a CPU module 404, a packet detection module 405, a rate control module 408, an address table 406, a packet buffer 407, a MAC adding module 409, and a MAC deleting module 410.

Wherein, the data packet coming from the downlink network interface module 401 enters the packet detection module 405; the packet detection module 405 detects whether the ethernet MAC DA, the ethernet MAC SA, the ethernet length or frame type, the video network destination address DA, the video network source address SA, the video network packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id); then, the MAC deletion module 410 subtracts MAC DA, MAC SA, length or frame type (2byte) and enters the corresponding receiving buffer, otherwise, discards it;

the downlink network interface module 401 detects the sending buffer of the port, and if there is a packet, obtains the ethernet MAC DA of the corresponding terminal according to the destination address DA of the packet, adds the ethernet MAC DA of the terminal, the MAC SA of the ethernet protocol gateway, and the ethernet length or frame type, and sends the packet.

The other modules in the ethernet protocol gateway function similarly to the access switch.

A terminal:

the system mainly comprises a network interface module, a service processing module and a CPU module; for example, the set-top box mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding and decoding engine module and a CPU module; the coding board mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding engine module and a CPU module; the memory mainly comprises a network interface module, a CPU module and a disk array module.

1.3 devices of the metropolitan area network part can be mainly classified into 2 types: node server, node exchanger, metropolitan area server. The node switch mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module; the metropolitan area server mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module.

2. Video networking packet definition

2.1 Access network packet definition

The data packet of the access network mainly comprises the following parts: destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), reserved bytes, payload (pdu), CRC.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the access network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

Payload

CRC

wherein:

the Destination Address (DA) is composed of 8 bytes (byte), the first byte represents the type of the data packet (such as various data packets, multicast data packets, unicast data packets, etc.), there are 256 possibilities at most, the second byte to the sixth byte are metropolitan area network addresses, and the seventh byte and the eighth byte are access network addresses;

the Source Address (SA) is also composed of 8 bytes (byte), defined as the same as the Destination Address (DA);

the reserved byte consists of 2 bytes;

the payload part has different lengths according to different types of datagrams, and is 64 bytes if various data packets are available, and is 32+1024 or 1056 bytes if a single multicast data packet is available, but of course, the length is not limited to the above 2 types;

the CRC consists of 4 bytes and is calculated in accordance with the standard ethernet CRC algorithm.

2.2 metropolitan area network packet definition

The topology of a metropolitan area network is a graph and there may be 2, or even more than 2, connections between two devices, i.e., there may be more than 2 connections between a node switch and a node server, a node switch and a node switch, and a node switch and a node server. However, the metro network address of the metro network device is unique, and in order to accurately describe the connection relationship between the metro network devices, parameters are introduced in the embodiment of the present invention: a label to uniquely describe a metropolitan area network device.

In this specification, the definition of the Label is similar to that of the Label of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switch), and assuming that there are two connections between the device a and the device B, there are 2 labels for the packet from the device a to the device B, and 2 labels for the packet from the device B to the device a. The label is classified into an incoming label and an outgoing label, and assuming that the label (incoming label) of the packet entering the device a is 0x0000, the label (outgoing label) of the packet leaving the device a may become 0x 0001. The network access process of the metro network is a network access process under centralized control, that is, address allocation and label allocation of the metro network are both dominated by the metro server, and the node switch and the node server are both passively executed, which is different from label allocation of MPLS, and label allocation of MPLS is a result of mutual negotiation between the switch and the server.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the metro network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

label (R)

Payload

CRC

Namely Destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), Reserved byte (Reserved), tag, payload (pdu), CRC. The format of the tag may be defined by reference to the following: the tag is 32 bits with the upper 16 bits reserved and only the lower 16 bits used, and its position is between the reserved bytes and payload of the packet.

Referring to fig. 5, a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a method for managing a protocol conversion device according to the present invention, which may be applied to a protocol conversion device of a video networking system, may include the steps of:

step 501: and registering the master control number distributed to the protocol conversion equipment on the autonomous server by using the client so as to acquire the configuration information of the protocol conversion equipment.

The configuration information includes a hardware address and a master control number of the protocol conversion device.

In the embodiment of the invention, the client is provided with equipment provided with network management service (network management for short) and used for managing the equipment in the video network. Each protocol conversion device is provided with a unique hardware address (MAC address) when leaving the factory, and the address is managed by a network manager on a client. For each protocol conversion device, it needs to be deployed and installed at the client, for example, in a scenario involving conversion between a terminal with an internet protocol and a video networking terminal protocol, that is, a corresponding protocol conversion device is deployed, and after the protocol conversion device is powered on and started up, a network cable is used to access the video networking system. When the administrator operates, the administrator firstly registers a master control number to the autonomous server in the video network protocol by using the network manager on the client, for example, the idle number selected in the preset number segment can be used as the master control number, and after the master control number is successfully registered, the configuration information including the hardware address of the protocol conversion device and the master control number is issued to the autonomous server, so that the protocol conversion device is added into the video network by using the master control number through the autonomous server, and the normal operation is realized.

Step 502: and sending the configuration information to the video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server.

Illustratively, after determining the video network server accessed by the protocol conversion device, the autonomous server correspondingly sends the configuration information to the video network server so as to facilitate the network access operation of the protocol conversion device through the video network server.

Step 503: and accessing the protocol conversion equipment into the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment by broadcasting of the video network server.

In a specific application, the video network server broadcasts in the broadcast domain thereof, so that the protocol conversion equipment finds that the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment is consistent with the hardware in a network access request command frame sent by the server, and accesses the protocol conversion equipment to the network.

Step 504, the service tunnel of the protocol conversion device is controlled by the master control number.

The control operation comprises at least one of an adding operation, a deleting operation and a state inquiring operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment.

For example, after the protocol conversion device performs the network access operation through the master number, the protocol conversion device may perform control of the service tunnel through the master number, for example, add a new service tunnel to the protocol conversion device or delete an existing service tunnel, and query the state information of the service tunnel. It should be noted that, for one protocol conversion device, 254 service tunnels may be added at most, and numbers corresponding to the 254 service tunnels and the master control number are all in the same number segment, so as to ensure normal use of the protocol conversion device, that is, 255 numbers occupied by 255 tunnels in the protocol conversion device are divided into two types, one type is the master control number (1), and the second type is the service number (254 at most).

In summary, the embodiment of the present invention may be applied to a protocol conversion device of a video networking system, and register a master control number allocated to the protocol conversion device on an autonomous server by using a client to obtain configuration information of the protocol conversion device, where the configuration information includes a hardware address and a master control number of the protocol conversion device; sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server; accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment by broadcasting of the video network server; and utilizing the master control number to control the service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment, wherein the control operation comprises at least one of an adding operation, a deleting operation and a state query operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment. Therefore, the unified management of the protocol conversion equipment in the video networking system can be realized, the flexibility of the protocol conversion equipment is increased, and the efficiency of the video networking system is improved.

Optionally, when the control operation includes an add operation, referring to fig. 6, a flowchart illustrating specific steps of an embodiment of a management method for a protocol conversion device according to the present invention is shown, where the step 504 of using a master control number to perform a control operation on a service tunnel of the protocol conversion device specifically includes the following steps:

step 5041: an adding instruction for performing adding operation and a first configuration parameter corresponding to the adding instruction are received.

The adding instruction and the first configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using a master control number, and the first configuration parameter comprises a service number and a master control number corresponding to a tunnel to be added.

Illustratively, an operator operates a client to send a tunnel adding instruction to a protocol conversion device by using a network manager, and sets information of a tunnel to be added, namely a first configuration parameter, by using the first configuration parameter, so that the protocol conversion device performs an adding operation of a service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added corresponding to the master control number. After receiving the adding instruction and the first configuration parameter sent by the client, the autonomous server routes the adding instruction and the first configuration parameter to the video network server accessed by the protocol conversion protocol according to the master control number, and further sends the first configuration parameter to the video network server, so that the video network server sends the first configuration parameter and the corresponding adding instruction to the corresponding protocol conversion equipment through the master control number.

Step 5042: and responding to the adding instruction, and adding the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added according to the first configuration parameter.

Illustratively, the protocol conversion device adds the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added to the protocol conversion device according to the received adding instruction and the first configuration parameter.

Step 5043: and sending success information indicating that the adding operation is successfully executed to the autonomous server so as to register the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added on the autonomous server by using the client and store the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client.

Illustratively, after the tunnel to be added is successfully added, the protocol conversion device directly returns a successful response, i.e., successful information, and sends the successful information to the autonomous server in a transparent transmission manner, so that the autonomous server conveniently returns the successful information to the client. The transparent transmission mode is based on the service of the video networking protocol, and the information communication between the protocol conversion equipment and the autonomous server can be realized without a video networking server.

In addition, after receiving the success information, the client registers the service number corresponding to the newly added tunnel to be added on the autonomous server, and after the successful registration, stores the addition record corresponding to the tunnel to be added in a Database (Database) on the client, so that the addition record of the tunnel to be added can be checked and modified conveniently in the later period.

As shown in fig. 7, a protocol conversion device 1 and a protocol conversion device 2 are connected to a video network server 1, and a protocol conversion device 3 is connected to a video network server 2, each video network server individually forming an isolated domain, as shown by the dashed boxes in the figure. Transparent transmission between the protocol conversion device and the autonomous server is shown by a dotted arrow and is not required to be realized through the video network server.

Optionally, in a case that the control operation includes a deletion operation, referring to fig. 8, a flowchart illustrating specific steps of an embodiment of a management method for a protocol conversion device of the present invention is shown, where the step 504 of using the master control number to perform a control operation on a service tunnel of the protocol conversion device specifically includes the following steps:

step 5044: and receiving a deleting instruction for deleting operation and a second configuration parameter corresponding to the deleting instruction.

The deleting instruction and the second configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using the master control number, and the second configuration parameter comprises a service number and a master control number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted.

Illustratively, similar to the content in step 5041, after the operator operates the client to confirm the tunnel to be deleted and the second configuration parameter by using the network management service, a delete instruction is sent to the protocol conversion device. And after the autonomous server receives the deletion instruction and the second configuration parameter, the second configuration parameter and the deletion instruction are sent to the video network server by using the master control number, so that the protocol conversion equipment receives the deletion instruction and the second configuration parameter by using the video network server to perform the deletion operation in the following steps.

Step 5045: and responding to the deleting instruction, and deleting the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted according to the second configuration parameter.

And 5046, sending success information indicating that the operation to be deleted is successful to the autonomous server, so that after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client, the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted is logged out from the autonomous server by using the client, and the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted is deleted in a database of the client.

Illustratively, after the deletion operation of the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted is completed in the above steps, the successful information is transmitted to the autonomous server, and then after the client receives the successful information sent by the autonomous server, the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted is cancelled from the autonomous server, and after the cancellation is successful, the database of the client is updated, that is, the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted is deleted from the database, so as to ensure the consistency of the recorded information.

Optionally, when the control operation includes an inquiry operation, referring to fig. 9, a flowchart illustrating specific steps of an embodiment of a monitoring and viewing method based on a video network is shown, where the step 504 of using a master control number to perform a control operation on a service tunnel of a protocol conversion device specifically includes the following steps:

step 5047: and receiving a query instruction for performing state query operation and a third configuration parameter corresponding to the query instruction.

The query instruction and the third configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion device by the video network server by using the master control number, and the third configuration parameter comprises a service number and a master control number corresponding to the tunnel to be queried.

Similar to steps 5041 and 5044, after the third configuration parameter and the query instruction are generated by using the parameter information of the tunnel to be queried selected by the client, the query instruction and the third configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion server through the video network server connected to the protocol conversion device, so as to perform the query operation described in the following steps.

Step 5048: and responding to the query instruction, and querying the query information of the tunnel to be queried according to the third configuration parameter.

Wherein the query information includes at least one of a traffic type, a tunnel status, and a utilization rate.

Exemplarily, a service type query of a service tunnel (a tunnel to be queried) can be performed by a client; inquiring the state of the current service tunnel; and inquiring the current utilization rate of the service tunnel, so that a manager can acquire the real-time information of the tunnel and further manage the protocol conversion equipment.

Step 5049, sending the query information to the autonomic server, so that after the autonomic server returns the query information to the client, the query information is output by the client and stored in the database of the client.

Illustratively, after the query information is acquired, the autonomous server returns the query information to the client, and then outputs the query information to a manager for checking by using an interface on the client, and meanwhile, stores the query information in a database, and correspondingly generates log information for recording.

Optionally, referring to fig. 10, which is a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a method for managing a protocol conversion device according to the present invention, the step 503 of networking the protocol conversion device according to a hardware address of the protocol conversion device through broadcasting of a video network server includes the following steps:

step 5031, receive the broadcast from the video networking server.

Wherein, the broadcast content comprises a network access command.

Illustratively, after receiving the configuration information sent by the autonomous server, the video network server broadcasts in its broadcast domain, where the broadcast is used to perform network access verification on the protocol conversion device in the video network server, that is, to issue a network access command to all protocol conversion devices in the broadcast domain.

Step 5032, according to the network access command and the hardware address of the protocol conversion device, performing a network access verification operation.

For example, after receiving a broadcast sent by a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion device, the protocol conversion device extracts a MAC address included in a network access command frame, compares the MAC address with its own MAC address, and if the MAC address is consistent with the MAC address, indicates that the network access command is for the protocol conversion device, that is, the network access authentication is passed. In a specific implementation, a preset verification algorithm may be set, for example, the network access command includes, for example, MAC address information encrypted by using a public key, and the protocol conversion server decrypts, after receiving the encrypted MAC address information, by using its own private key, to determine a plaintext MAC address, and then compares the plaintext MAC address with its own MAC address, thereby completing the network access verification operation.

Step 5033, if the network access authentication is passed, confirming that the protocol conversion device is accessed to the network.

Step 5034, obtain the master control number sent by the video networking server.

Illustratively, the protocol conversion device that passes the network access verification is subjected to network access operation, and after the network access is successful, the corresponding master control number is acquired, that is, the master control number registered in step 501 is used as the master control number of the protocol conversion device, so as to implement the binding between the protocol conversion device and the master control number thereof, and manage the service numbers corresponding to other service tunnels.

Referring to fig. 11, there is shown a block diagram of a management apparatus of a protocol conversion device, which may be applied to a protocol conversion device of a video networking system, of the present invention, where the apparatus 1100 includes:

the number registration module 1110 is configured to register, by using the client, the master control number allocated to the protocol conversion device on the autonomous server, so as to obtain configuration information of the protocol conversion device, where the configuration information includes a hardware address and a master control number of the protocol conversion device.

And an information sending module 1120, configured to send, by using the autonomous server, the configuration information to the video network server to which the protocol conversion device is accessed.

The device network accessing module 1130 is configured to access the protocol conversion device to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion device through broadcast of the video network server.

The control operation module 1140 is configured to perform a control operation on a service tunnel of the protocol conversion device by using the master number, where the control operation includes at least one of an addition operation, a deletion operation, and a status query operation, and a number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master number are in the same number segment.

Optionally, in a case that the control operation includes an add operation, the control operation module 1140 includes:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving an adding instruction for performing adding operation and a first configuration parameter corresponding to the adding instruction, wherein the adding instruction and the first configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using a master control number, and the first configuration parameter comprises a service number and a master control number corresponding to a tunnel to be added;

the adding submodule is used for responding to the adding instruction and adding the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added according to the first configuration parameter;

and the sending submodule is used for sending success information indicating that the adding operation is successful to the autonomous server so as to register the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added on the autonomous server by using the client and store the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client.

Optionally, in a case that the control operation includes a delete operation, the control operation module 1140 includes:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving a deleting instruction for deleting operation and a second configuration parameter corresponding to the deleting instruction, wherein the deleting instruction and the second configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using a master control number, and the second configuration parameter comprises a service number and a master control number corresponding to a tunnel to be deleted;

the deleting submodule is used for responding to the deleting instruction and deleting the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted according to the second configuration parameter;

and the sending submodule is used for sending successful information indicating that the deleting operation is successful to the autonomous server so as to utilize the client to log the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted from the autonomous server and delete the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the successful information to the client.

Optionally, in a case that the control operation includes a status query operation, the control operation module 1140 is utilized and includes:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving a query instruction for carrying out state query operation and a third configuration parameter corresponding to the query instruction, wherein the query instruction and the third configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using a master control number, and the third configuration parameter comprises a service number and a master control number corresponding to a tunnel to be queried;

the query submodule is used for responding to the query instruction and querying query information of the tunnel to be queried according to the third configuration parameter, wherein the query information comprises at least one of the service type, the tunnel state and the utilization rate;

and the sending submodule is used for sending the query information to the autonomous server so as to output the query information by using the client and store the query information in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the query information to the client.

Optionally, the device networking module 1130 includes:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving the broadcast of the video network server; the content of the broadcast includes a network access command.

The verification submodule is used for carrying out network access verification operation according to the network access command and the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment;

the confirming submodule is used for confirming the network access of the protocol conversion equipment under the condition that the network access verification is passed;

and the acquisition submodule is used for acquiring the master control number sent by the video network server.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.

The above detailed description is given to the management method and apparatus for protocol conversion device provided by the present invention, and the specific examples are applied in this document to explain the principle and implementation of the present invention, and the description of the above embodiments is only used to help understanding the method and core idea of the present invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A management method of a protocol conversion device is applied to the protocol conversion device of a video networking system, and the method comprises the following steps:

registering a master control number allocated to a protocol conversion device on an autonomous server by using a client to acquire configuration information of the protocol conversion device, wherein the configuration information comprises a hardware address of the protocol conversion device and the master control number;

sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server;

accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment through the broadcast of the video network server;

and performing control operation on a service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment by using the master control number, wherein the control operation comprises at least one of adding operation, deleting operation and state query operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in a case that the control operation includes the add operation, performing a control operation on a traffic tunnel of the protocol conversion device by using the master number includes:

receiving an adding instruction for performing the adding operation and a first configuration parameter corresponding to the adding instruction, wherein the adding instruction and the first configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using the master control number, and the first configuration parameter comprises a service number corresponding to a tunnel to be added and the master control number;

responding to the adding instruction, and adding the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added according to the first configuration parameter;

and sending success information indicating that the adding operation is successful to the autonomous server so as to register the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added on the autonomous server by using the client and store the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in a case that the control operation includes the deletion operation, the performing, by using the master control number, a control operation on a service channel of the protocol conversion device includes:

receiving a deleting instruction for deleting the operation and a second configuration parameter corresponding to the deleting instruction, wherein the deleting instruction and the second configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using the master control number, and the second configuration parameter comprises a service number corresponding to a tunnel to be deleted and the master control number;

responding to the deleting instruction, and deleting the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted according to the second configuration parameter;

and sending success information indicating that the deleting operation is successful to the autonomous server so as to utilize the client to log the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted from the autonomous server and delete the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein if the control operation includes the status query operation, performing a control operation on a service channel of the protocol conversion device by using the master control number, includes:

receiving a query instruction for performing the state query operation and a third configuration parameter corresponding to the query instruction, where the query instruction and the third configuration parameter are sent by the video network server to the protocol conversion device by using the master control number, and the third configuration parameter includes a service number corresponding to a tunnel to be queried and the master control number;

responding to the query instruction, and querying query information of the tunnel to be queried according to the third configuration parameter, wherein the query information comprises at least one of a service type, a tunnel state and a utilization rate;

and sending the query information to the autonomous server so as to output the query information by using the client and store the query information in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the query information to the client.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcasting by the video networking server to network the protocol conversion device according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion device comprises:

receiving a broadcast of the video networking server, wherein the content of the broadcast comprises a networking command;

performing network access verification operation according to the network access command and the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment;

confirming the protocol conversion equipment to access the network under the condition that the network access verification is passed;

and acquiring the master control number sent by the video network server.

6. A management device of a protocol conversion device is applied to the protocol conversion device of a video networking system, and the device comprises:

a number registration module, configured to register, by using a client, a master control number assigned to a protocol conversion device on an autonomous server, so as to obtain configuration information of the protocol conversion device, where the configuration information includes a hardware address of the protocol conversion device and the master control number;

the information sending module is used for sending the configuration information to a video network server accessed by the protocol conversion equipment by utilizing the autonomous server;

the equipment network accessing module is used for accessing the protocol conversion equipment to the network according to the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment through the broadcast of the video network server;

and the control operation module is used for controlling a service tunnel of the protocol conversion equipment by using the master control number, the control operation comprises at least one of an adding operation, a deleting operation and a state query operation, and the number corresponding to the service tunnel and the master control number are in the same number segment.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein in the event that the control operation comprises the add operation, the control operation module comprises:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving an adding instruction for performing the adding operation and a first configuration parameter corresponding to the adding instruction, wherein the adding instruction and the first configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using the master control number, and the first configuration parameter comprises a service number corresponding to a tunnel to be added and the master control number;

the adding submodule is used for responding to the adding instruction and adding the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added according to the first configuration parameter;

and the sending submodule is used for sending success information indicating that the adding operation is successful to the autonomous server so as to register the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added on the autonomous server by using the client and store the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be added in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein in the case that the control operation comprises the delete operation, the control operation module comprises:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving a deleting instruction for deleting the operation and a second configuration parameter corresponding to the deleting instruction, wherein the deleting instruction and the second configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using the master control number, and the second configuration parameter comprises a service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted and the master control number;

the deleting submodule is used for responding to the deleting instruction and deleting the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted according to the second configuration parameter;

and the sending submodule is used for sending success information indicating that the deleting operation is successful to the autonomous server so as to utilize the client to log the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted from the autonomous server and delete the service number corresponding to the tunnel to be deleted in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the success information to the client.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein if the control operation comprises the status query operation, utilizing a control operation module comprises:

the receiving sub-module is used for receiving a query instruction for performing the state query operation and a third configuration parameter corresponding to the query instruction, wherein the query instruction and the third configuration parameter are sent to the protocol conversion equipment by the video network server by using the master control number, and the third configuration parameter comprises a service number corresponding to a tunnel to be queried and the master control number;

the query submodule is used for responding to the query instruction and querying query information of the tunnel to be queried according to the third configuration parameter, wherein the query information comprises at least one of a service type, a tunnel state and a utilization rate;

and the sending submodule is used for sending the query information to the autonomous server so as to output the query information by using the client and store the query information in a database of the client after the autonomous server returns the query information to the client.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the device networking module comprises:

the receiving submodule is used for receiving the broadcast of the video networking server, and the content of the broadcast comprises a networking command;

the verification submodule is used for carrying out network access verification operation according to the network access command and the hardware address of the protocol conversion equipment;

the confirming submodule is used for confirming the network access of the protocol conversion equipment under the condition that the network access verification is passed;

and the acquisition submodule is used for acquiring the master control number sent by the video networking server.

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