CN110460478A

CN110460478A - Alarm test method, alarm test system and alarm manufacturing equipment, network management system

Info

Publication number: CN110460478A
Application number: CN201910804682.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘丽
Original assignee: Raisecom Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Raisecom Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-08-28
Filing date: 2019-08-28
Publication date: 2019-11-15
Anticipated expiration: 2039-08-28
Also published as: CN110460478B

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of alarm test method, alarm test system and alarm manufacturing equipments, network management system, for carrying out alarm test using true network element, it can really reflect equipment alarm test result, avoid the single test only for network management system side or equipment side.This method comprises: determining the alarm type for the alarm signal that target network element and the target network element generate；According to the mutual inhibition relationship between the alarm signal of different alarm types, when determining that the alarm signal is not suppressed, alarm test order is sent to target network element.

Description

Alarm test method, alarm test system, alarm manufacturing equipment and network management system

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of software testing, in particular to an alarm testing method, an alarm testing system, alarm manufacturing equipment and a network management system.

Background

With the rapid progress of the overall internet environment and the increasing popularization of information technology, the healthy development of communication cannot be guaranteed by a single communication device, and the network management software also shows the increasingly important value. The quality of the network management software influences the availability and the usability of the whole communication system to a certain extent, and the test aiming at the network management software also becomes a part for ensuring the communication quality. As a supplement to the Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) hierarchy, the international Telecommunication union Telecommunication standards branch office (ITU-T for ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T) demarcates five common Management functions provided by Network Management systems, namely Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS).

The network management software manages the managed equipment aiming at the five points, and the network management test also tests the five points, wherein errors are also called alarms, and the network management software is a mechanism and is actively sent by an Agent end Agent in a communication protocol model and passively received by a Manager end Manager; or after monitoring the state change by the Manager, automatically generating an alarm record, wherein the main test contents are as follows: whether the alarm can be reported normally or not, and whether the equipment alarm reporting or the network management alarm receiving condition is abnormal or not under the conditions of alarm filtering, shielding and the like.

At present, the following problems exist in the alarm test in the network management software:

(1) the operation is complicated, a large amount of manpower is consumed in the testing process, and the requirement of a tester on understanding of related service alarms is high.

(2) The method for directly sending the alarm related message by adopting the server simulation network management software equipment cannot support the failure or specific failure reason for sending the alarm message, and related problems such as service interruption, service quality and the like cannot be caused in the manufacturing process of part of alarms, so that the method is only suitable for pressure test aiming at the network management software.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention provides an alarm test method, an alarm test system, alarm manufacturing equipment and a network management system, which are used for carrying out alarm test by using a real network element, can truly reflect the alarm test result of the equipment and avoid single test only aiming at the network management system side or the equipment side.

In a first aspect, the present invention provides an alarm testing method applied to an alarm manufacturing apparatus, the method including:

determining a target network element and an alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element;

and sending an alarm test command to a target network element when determining that the alarm signal is not inhibited according to the mutual inhibition relation among the alarm signals of different alarm types.

As an optional implementation manner, before sending the alarm test command to the target network element, the method further includes: backing up the configuration information of the target network element and initializing the configuration information;

after sending the alarm test command to the target network element, the method further comprises: and after the alarm test is determined to be completed, restoring the configuration of the target network element through the backed-up configuration information.

As an alternative embodiment, the determining that the alarm signal is not suppressed includes:

determining that the alert signal is not suppressed by other alert signals that have been generated; or

Determining that the mutual suppression relationship between the alarm signal and other alarm signals is cleared.

As an optional implementation manner, the alarm test command is generated according to the following method:

determining a test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the test script;

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

determining a test object in the test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element and controlling the action of the test object according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the test script;

extracting codes of the test objects from an object library, extracting codes of actions of the test objects from an action library, and generating an alarm test script;

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

As an optional implementation manner, sending the alarm test command to the target network element includes:

inputting an alarm test command through a command line and sending the alarm test command to a target network element; or

And sending an alarm test request message to the network management system, generating an alarm test command through the network management system and sending the alarm test command to the target network element.

As an optional implementation manner, after the alarm test command is input through the command line and sent to the target network element, the method further includes:

judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued or not according to the echoed value of the target network element; or,

after sending the alarm test request message to the network management system, generating an alarm test command by the network management system and sending the alarm test command to the target network element, the method further comprises the following steps:

and judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued according to whether the alarm signal corresponding to the alarm test command generated by the network management system for the last time is consistent with the alarm signal currently generated by the target network element.

As an alternative embodiment, the mutual suppression relationship between the alarm signals of different alarm types is represented by a contiguous matrix structure.

As an optional implementation manner, the determination of the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element is performed by:

acquiring an IP address of a target network element, and receiving the target network element type corresponding to the IP address of the target network element indicated by a network management system;

the network management system stores the corresponding relation between the IP address of the target network element and the type of the target network element.

As an optional implementation, the method further includes:

and locally storing the corresponding relation between the IP address of the target network element and the type of the target network element.

acquiring the type and alarm type of a target network element from a network management system, receiving input source address information of the target network element, and sending an alarm test command to the determined source address of the target network element;

the network management system stores the corresponding relation between the type of the target network element and the alarm name.

As an optional implementation manner, after sending the alarm test command to the target network element when determining that the alarm signal is not suppressed, the method further includes: and when the alarm signal is determined to be cleared, sending an alarm clearing command to the target network element.

determining a clearing test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal of the cleared target network element according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the clearing test script;

and generating an alarm clearing test command according to the clearing test script.

As an optional implementation manner, the alarm clearing command is generated according to the following method:

determining a test object in the clearing test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal of the cleared target network element and controlling the action of the test object according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the clearing test script;

sending an alarm clearing test request message to a network management system, extracting the code of the action of the test object from an action library, and generating an alarm clearing test script;

and generating an alarm clearing command according to the test script.

As an optional implementation manner, sending an alarm clearing test command to a target network element includes:

inputting an alarm clearing test command through a command line and sending the alarm clearing test command to a target network element; or

And sending an alarm clearing test request message to the network management system, generating an alarm clearing test command through the network management system and sending the alarm clearing test command to the target network element.

As an optional implementation manner, after the alarm clearing test command is input through the command line and sent to the target network element, the method further includes:

judging whether the alarm clearing test command is successfully issued or not according to the echoed value of the target network element;

after sending the alarm clearing test request message to the network management system, generating an alarm clearing test command through the network management system and sending the command to the target network element, the method further comprises the following steps:

and judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued according to whether the alarm signal corresponding to the alarm clearing test command generated by the network management system for the last time is consistent with the alarm signal of the currently cleared target network element.

In a second aspect, the present invention provides an alarm testing method, which is applied to a network management system, and the method includes:

determining a target network element, determining the alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element according to the corresponding relation between the alarm signal and the alarm type, and sending the alarm type to alarm manufacturing equipment;

and receiving an alarm signal reported by a target network element, and sending all alarm types corresponding to the alarm signal to alarm manufacturing equipment.

As an optional implementation, the method further includes:

receiving an alarm test request message, generating an alarm test command and sending the alarm test command to a target network element; or

And receiving the alarm clearing test request message, generating an alarm clearing test command and sending the alarm clearing test command to the target network element.

As an optional implementation manner, after generating the alarm test command and sending the alarm test command to the target network element, the method further includes:

judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued according to whether the alarm signal corresponding to the alarm test command generated last time is consistent with the alarm signal currently generated by the target network element; or

After generating the alarm clearing test command and sending the alarm clearing test command to the target network element, the method further comprises the following steps:

and judging whether the alarm clearing test command is successfully issued according to whether the alarm signal corresponding to the alarm clearing test command generated last time is consistent with the alarm signal currently generated by the target network element.

As an optional implementation, generating an alarm test command includes:

generating an alarm clearing test command, comprising:

determining a test object in the clearing test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element and controlling the action of the test object according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the clearing test script;

and extracting the code of the test object from an object library, extracting the code of the action of the test object from an action library, and generating an alarm clearing test script.

As an optional implementation manner, after determining the target network element, the method further includes:

and sending the target network element type corresponding to the IP address of the target network element to alarm manufacturing equipment according to the corresponding relation between the IP address of the network element and the network element type.

In a third aspect, the present invention provides an alert manufacturing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of:

In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a network management system, including: a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of:

In a fifth aspect, the present invention provides another alert manufacturing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: determining a target network element device and an alarm testing device, wherein:

the device for determining the target network element is used for determining the target network element and the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element;

and the alarm test device is used for sending an alarm test command to the target network element when the alarm signals are determined not to be inhibited according to the mutual inhibition relation among the alarm signals of different alarm types.

In a sixth aspect, the present invention provides another network management system, which includes a target network element determining device and a device for receiving and sending alarm signals, wherein:

the device for determining the target network element is used for determining the target network element, determining the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element according to the corresponding relation between the alarm signal and the alarm type and sending the alarm type to the alarm manufacturing equipment;

and the alarm signal receiving and sending device is used for receiving the alarm signal reported by the target network element and sending all alarm types corresponding to the alarm signal to the alarm manufacturing equipment.

In a seventh aspect, the present invention provides a computer storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method of the first aspect.

In an eighth aspect, the present invention provides a computer storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method of the second aspect.

In a ninth aspect, the present invention provides an alarm testing system, comprising: target network element, network management system, warning manufacture equipment, wherein:

the alarm manufacturing equipment is used for determining a target network element and the alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element; according to the mutual inhibition relation among alarm signals of different alarm types, when the alarm signals are determined not to be inhibited, an alarm test command is sent to a target network element;

the network management system is used for determining a target network element, determining the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element according to the corresponding relation between the alarm signal and the alarm type and sending the alarm type to alarm manufacturing equipment; receiving an alarm signal reported by a target network element, and sending all alarm types corresponding to the alarm signal to alarm manufacturing equipment;

and the target network element is used for executing the alarm test command after receiving the alarm test command and reporting an alarm signal corresponding to the alarm test command to the network management system.

The alarm test method, the alarm test system, the alarm manufacturing equipment and the network management system provided by the invention have the following beneficial effects:

the real network element can be utilized to carry out alarm test, the equipment alarm test result can be truly reflected, the generation and reporting processes of the alarm can be effectively tested, and the single test only aiming at the network management system side or the equipment side can be avoided.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an alarm testing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary implementation of an alarm test according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3A is a schematic diagram of a first alarm suppression relationship provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3B is a schematic diagram of a second alarm suppression relationship according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3C is a schematic diagram of a third alarm suppression relationship provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of an alarm testing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an alarm testing method applied to a network management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of an alarm manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a network management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another alert manufacturing apparatus provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of another network management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Example 1

An embodiment of the present invention provides an alarm testing system, as shown in fig. 1, the system includes: a target network element 100, a network management system 101 and an alarm manufacturing device 102. The user only needs to determine the alarm required by the target network element 100, the alarm manufacturing equipment 102 automatically sends an alarm test command to the target network element 100 by simulating the user behavior, and the required alarm is automatically manufactured by a method of linking the network management system 101, the target network element 100 and the alarm manufacturing equipment 102, so that the effective alarm test is performed, and the problems of complex operation, alarm distortion and the like in the current network management software alarm test are solved.

Wherein, among this warning test system:

the target network element 100: the target network elements can be unlimited in number or can be set according to test requirements, each target network element has a different IP address, and the target network elements are distinguished by target network element IDs on the network management system side.

The network management system 101: the alarm ID in this embodiment may be an identifier used to represent an alarm signal, that is, different alarm IDs are used to represent different alarm signals.

The network management system is provided with a network element database for storing information of all network elements, and comprises: the network element type, the network element ID, the network element IP address and the corresponding relation among the network element type, the network element ID and the network element IP address.

The network management system is also provided with an alarm database, which comprises: an alarm type management database and a current alarm query database, wherein:

the alarm type management database is used for storing the corresponding relation between the alarm name and the alarm type ID;

the current alarm query database is used for storing information of current alarm signals (namely the latest reported alarm signals received by the network management system), and comprises corresponding relations among alarm IDs, network element IP addresses and alarm names;

the alarm manufacturing equipment 102 is used for determining a target network element and an alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element; and sending an alarm test command to a target network element when determining that the alarm signal is not inhibited according to the mutual inhibition relation among the alarm signals of different alarm types.

As shown in fig. 2, the detailed description of the specific workflow of the alarm test by using the alarm test system is as follows:

step 200, the alarm manufacturing equipment determines a target network element;

in this embodiment, the target network element may be determined by determining an IP address of the target network element, and may specifically be determined by any one of the following methods:

1) the method comprises the steps that an IP address of a target network element which is input from the outside is directly received through alarm manufacturing equipment to determine;

2) a target network element is designated on the network management system side based on the management of the network element by the network management system, and the alarm manufacturing equipment is determined by receiving the IP address of the target network element sent by the network management system.

The embodiment may also send the relevant information of the target network element to the alarm manufacturing device in other manners, so that the alarm manufacturing device can know to which target network element the alarm test command is to be sent.

In this embodiment, after the IP address of the target network element is determined according to the corresponding relationship between the IP address of the target network element and the type of the target network element, the type of the target network element may be further determined. The corresponding relation between the IP address of the target network element and the type of the target network element can be stored in the network management system in advance, and the network management system determines the corresponding network element type according to the IP address of the target network element and sends the network element type to the alarm manufacturing equipment.

The network element type may be obtained by applying the alarm manufacturing device to the network management system according to external trigger, or may be actively issued by the network management system to the alarm manufacturing device according to external trigger, and the corresponding relationship between the IP address of the target network element and the target network element type is established on the alarm manufacturing device side after the alarm manufacturing device acquires the network element type in any manner.

Optionally, in this embodiment, it may be first determined whether the corresponding relationship between the IP address of the current target network element and the type of the target network element is stored in the alarm manufacturing device, and if so, the alarm manufacturing device may directly determine the type of the current target network element.

After the IP address of the target network element and the type of the target network element are determined, since the target network element includes a plurality of source address information, such as a plurality of port numbers, a plurality of slot numbers, and the like, it is further required to determine to which source address information of the target network element to send the alarm test command, which may be specifically implemented as follows:

and acquiring the type and the alarm type of the target network element from the network management system, receiving the input source address information of the target network element and then sending an alarm test command. The user can specify the source address information and inform the alarm manufacturing equipment in an external input mode, and the alarm manufacturing equipment sends an alarm test command to the target network element.

Step 201, the alarm manufacturing equipment backs up the configuration information of the target network element and initializes the configuration information;

in this embodiment, after the alarm manufacturing device is connected to the target network element, the target network element may upload the current configuration information to the alarm manufacturing device through a File Transfer Protocol (FTP); meanwhile, the acquired current configuration information of the target network element can be stored in a local designated address of the alarm manufacturing equipment, and the corresponding relation between the target network element and the current configuration information is established. For example: the corresponding relation between the IP address of the target network element and the current configuration information can be established, and the current configuration information of the target network element is backed up, so that the actual configuration information of the target network element before the alarm test can be timely recovered through the backed-up configuration information after the alarm test is determined to be finished.

After the alarm manufacturing equipment backups the configuration information of the target network element, the configuration information of the target network element except the IP address is initialized, and the configuration information corresponding to the target network element to be detected except the IP address can be set to be null through FTP and then sent to the target network element, so that the subsequent clearing of the inhibition alarm signal of the alarm signal is quicker, and the system efficiency is improved.

Step 202, the alarm manufacturing equipment determines the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element.

In this embodiment, the alarm type of the alarm signal may be recorded in an ID form, and is a unique identifier of the alarm signal, so as to facilitate the unified management of the alarm test script in the system.

In this embodiment, the alarm type may be stored in the alarm manufacturing device in the form of an alarm type ID and correspond to the alarm type ID stored in the network management system, so that the alarm type in the alarm manufacturing device is consistent with the alarm type in the network management system. The network management system is provided with an alarm database and can also be used for storing alarm names, alarm type IDs and the corresponding relations of the alarm names and the alarm type IDs, the alarm type IDs which need to be sent can be determined according to the input alarm names, and testers can input the alarm names in the network management system to inquire the alarm type IDs and send the alarm type IDs to the alarm manufacturing equipment; or inputting an alarm name on the alarm manufacturing equipment, sending the alarm name to the network management system for requesting query, sending the queried alarm type ID to the alarm manufacturing equipment by the network management system, and storing the alarm type ID by the alarm manufacturing equipment; therefore, in the alarm manufacturing apparatus, there is also a correspondence between the alarm type ID, the network element type, and the alarm name, and further, there is also a correspondence with the IP address of the target network element.

Step 203, the alarm manufacturing equipment judges whether the alarm signal generated by the target network element is inhibited or not according to the mutual inhibition relation among the alarm signals of different alarm types, if so, step 204 is executed, otherwise, step 205 is executed;

in this embodiment, determining whether the alarm signal generated by the target network element is suppressed is relative to all alarm types generated by the target network element, that is, determining whether the alarm signal is suppressed by other alarm signals already generated by the target network element, where it is determined that all alarm types generated by the target network element may be determined by:

the method comprises the steps that a tester directly sends an alarm query command to a network management system or an alarm manufacturing device sends the alarm query command to the network management system according to external triggering;

the network management system receives the alarm query command, queries an alarm database, acquires the current alarm ID and the alarm name of the target network element, issues all the alarm types corresponding to the acquired current alarm ID to the alarm manufacturing equipment, and records all the alarm types of the target network element. The alarm ID acquired by the network management system may be a plurality of different alarm IDs.

The mutual suppression relationship between the alarm signals of different alarm types may be a mutual suppression relationship of an adjacent matrix structure generated by the alarm manufacturing device according to the mutual suppression relationship between every two alarm signals input by the user.

The mutual suppression relation between the alarm signals of different alarm types may be that the mutual suppression relation between a certain alarm type and the rest of alarm types is represented by an adjacent matrix structure. As shown in table 1 below, the alarm type IDs of all alarm types of a certain target network element are: A. b, C, D, E, respectively; and recording the mutual inhibition relation among all the alarm types by using the table entries of the adjacent matrix structure, wherein if true represents that inhibition exists, an alarm type A inhibits alarm types B and C, an alarm type B inhibits alarm type C, and an alarm type D inhibits alarm type E.

TABLE 1 mutual suppression relationship table between alarm signals of different alarm types

Further, the mutual suppression relationship between alarm signals for different alarm types may be stored on the alarm manufacturing apparatus in the form of a contiguous linked list, as shown in fig. 3A-3C:

when the alarm manufacturing equipment is installed and initialized, the inhibition relationship of a single pair of single alarm types is determined according to the design requirement, namely the inhibition relationship of one alarm type to another alarm type can be stored in a form of an adjacent linked list.

As shown in fig. 3A, taking An example that the set of alarm types a (a1, a2, A3, … … An) can suppress the alarm type B, the alarm type a1 is embedded into the tail node of the linked list with the alarm type B as the head node, and is stored in the form of B- > a1- > a2 … … - > An;

as shown in fig. 3B, if the alarm type a1 in the alarm type a set is suppressed by the alarm type C1 set (C11, C12, C13, … … C1n), the alarm type C1 set is embedded into the alarm type a1 and then stored;

in some embodiments of the present invention, the suppression relationship of the alarm type may also be increased in a user-defined manner, as shown in fig. 3C, an alarm type D suppression alarm type B is determined on the basis of fig. 3A, and when there is no alarm type D suppression alarm type B in the suppression relationship stored in the traversal alarm manufacturing device, the linked list corresponding to the alarm type D may be inserted into the tail node of the linked list corresponding to the alarm type B.

Step 204, when the alarm manufacturing equipment determines that the alarm signal is inhibited by other generated alarm signals, judging whether the inhibition relation is marked as clearable, if so, executing step 205, otherwise, executing step 206;

in the embodiment, even if the suppression relation is eliminated, the mutual suppression relation among the stored alarm signals of different alarm types is not changed; when judging whether the alarm can be cleared or not, judging the alarm types of other alarms with the inhibition relationship, and clearing according to the judgment result until the inhibition relationship which can be cleared does not exist.

Step 205, the alarm manufacturing equipment sends an alarm test command to the target network element;

the embodiment can provide two ways of sending the alarm test command:

the method 1, inputting an alarm test command through a command line at an alarm manufacturing device side and sending the alarm test command to a target network element, specifically includes the following steps:

11) determining a test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the test script;

the test script corresponding to the alarm type ID of the alarm signal generated by the target network element may be determined according to the correspondence between the different alarm type IDs and the test script.

As shown in table 2, it is determined that the alarm type a generated by the target network element corresponds to a test script STEP, and the script STEP includes: the sequentially executed test STEPs STEP1- > STEP2- > … … - > STEPn, and STEPs STEP1, STEP2, … …, STEPn map to a test command COMM n and an expected echoed value EXCEP n, respectively;

before sending the alarm test command to the target network element, the test command and the expected echo value required in the test need to be specified, that is, the test command corresponding to the test steps sequentially executed in the test script is determined according to the alarm type a. For example: STEP1(COMM 1, EXCEP 1), STEP2(COMM 2, EXCEP 2) … … STEP3(COMM n, EXCEP n), whereby the commands COMM 1, COMM 2 … COMM n of the alarm test to be executed in sequence can be determined according to the type A of the alarm to be generated. The test script mapping table is illustratively shown in table 2.

Table 2 test script mapping table

STEP	Command	Expected echo value
			1	COMM 1	EXCEP 1
2	COMM 2	EXCEP 1
			……	……	……
n	COMM n	EXCEP n

Optionally, after determining the test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element, the test script may be stored in the alarm manufacturing device, and a corresponding relationship may be established between the test script and the alarm type corresponding to the test script, so as to be used in the next test.

12) Generating an alarm test command according to the test script and sending the alarm test command to the target network element;

and connecting the alarm manufacturing equipment and the target network element by using a remote connection mode. For example, a Telnet connection mode is adopted, and a privilege mode of a network element is entered, where how to enter the privilege mode of the network element through a remote connection mode is known to those of ordinary skill in the art, and is not described herein, and the alarm manufacturing apparatus implements connection with the target network element through the IP address of the target network element;

and after connection, the determined alarm test command is remotely issued to a target network element, and the target network element starts to perform alarm test. For example, when a Telnet mode is used for remote connection, a Windows shell control access interface provided by a wshell object inputs a command line corresponding to a determined script into an active window (i.e., a Telnet window).

13) And judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued or not according to the echoed value of the target network element.

As shown in table 3, the actual echo value can be obtained after calling each test command, the alarm manufacturing device compares whether the expected echo value is the same as the actual echo value, if so, it determines that the alarm test command was issued successfully (TRUE), and if not, it determines that the alarm test command was issued Failed (FAIL), and the result is refilled in table 3.

TABLE 3 alarm test command operation table

STEP	Command	Expected echo value	Actual echo value	Issue the result
					1	COMM 1	EXCEP 1	ACTUAL 1	TRUE
2	COMM 2	EXCEP 1	ACTUAL 2	TRUE
					……	……	……	……	……
n	COMM n	EXCEP n	ACTUAL n	TRUE

The embodiment may also identify the status of the alarm type as manufactured when it is determined that the alarm test command is successfully issued. The method and the system can realize the process of inquiring, verifying and alarming the alarm test at the network management system side by calling the script of the alarm manufacturing equipment, judge whether the alarm test command is successfully issued, inform the alarm manufacturing equipment of the test result and return the alarm ID. Specifically, the latest recorded current alarm ID can be checked at the network management system side, where the alarm ID is a sequence value of the reported alarm signal, and whether the alarm ID is consistent with the alarm name of the generated alarm signal and the source address information of the target network element is checked, and if the alarm ID is consistent with the sequence value, it indicates that the alarm signal is successfully manufactured; the inconsistency indicates that the alarm signal fails to be manufactured.

Because the alarm testing process is executed strictly according to the preset testing steps, compared with the artificial transmission of the simulation message, part of alarms can have related problems of service interruption, service quality and the like in the manufacturing process, and the testing data is real and reliable. After the alarm test command is successfully issued, the latest alarm type in the current alarm types can be notified to alarm manufacturing equipment and recorded.

As an alternative embodiment, it may be determined whether a test script corresponding to the alarm type to be manufactured (i.e. of the alarm signal generated by the target network element) exists in the alarm manufacturing apparatus, and if so, the test script is directly invoked without being generated again.

And 2, sending an alarm test request message to the network management system, generating an alarm test command through the network management system and sending the alarm test command to the target network element.

In this way, after the alarm manufacturing device is connected to the network management system, the network management system can be operated based on the message mechanism of the windows operating system.

21) Determining a test object in an alarm test script corresponding to the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element and controlling the action of the test object according to the corresponding relation between different alarm types and the test script;

for example, the target network element is to generate a test script STEP corresponding to an alarm type a (i.e. an alarm type a to be manufactured by an alarm manufacturing device), where the script STEP includes: the sequentially executed test STEPs STEP1- > STEP2- > … … - > STEPn, and the test STEPs STEP1, STEP2, … …, STEPn are mapped to an object and an action controlling the object, respectively, such as STEP1(OBJ1, ACT1), STEP2(OBJ2, ACT2), … …, STEPn (OBJn, ACTn), where OBJn denotes an object and ACTn denotes an action controlling OBJn, whereby the STEP of the sequentially executed alarm test in the corresponding test script STEP can be determined to be STEP1(OBJ1, ACT1) - > STEP2(OBJ2, ACT2) - > … … - > STEPn (OBJn, ACTn) according to the alarm type a to be manufactured.

Optionally, the determined test script may be placed in a container for storage, and a corresponding relationship between the test script and the corresponding alarm type is established, so as to be used in the next test.

In the embodiment, the test object and the action for controlling the test object are respectively stored in the object library and the action library, the object library and the action library are respectively mapped to the network management system and the Windows API processing function library, and a user can check the test object corresponding to the expanded alarm type and control whether the action of the object exists when expanding the alarm type, so that the user can simply and efficiently perform user-defined expansion on the alarm type to be tested.

22) Extracting the code of the test object from an object library, extracting the code of the action of the test object from an action library, and generating an alarm test command;

in this embodiment, the test object may be a test object in a network management system packaged in an object library of the alarm manufacturing device, and network management elements are searched through an object recognition principle; the action of controlling the test object can be a test operation performed on the object, and the test operation to be executed can be mapped to the Windows API processing function library for operation.

When the alarm signal is determined to be manufactured to execute the alarm test, the test script can be taken out from the container, the handle and the script information of the object in the test script corresponding to the alarm type are manufactured according to the requirement, the corresponding API processing function is called, and the script execution is completed. Among other things, the API is available from MSDN, a complete set of Windows developer technology documents published by microsoft.

23) And judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued according to whether the alarm signal corresponding to the alarm test command generated by the network management system for the last time is consistent with the alarm signal currently generated by the target network element.

The process of inquiring and verifying the alarm test at the network management system side can be realized by calling the script of the alarm manufacturing equipment, whether the alarm test command is successfully issued is judged, and the test result is notified to the alarm manufacturing equipment. Specifically, the latest recorded current alarm ID can be checked at the network management system side, where the alarm ID is a sequence value of the reported alarm signal, and whether the alarm ID is consistent with the alarm name of the generated alarm and the source address information of the target network element is checked, and if so, it indicates that the alarm signal is successfully manufactured; the inconsistency indicates that the alarm signal fails to be manufactured.

As an optional implementation manner, it may be determined whether a test script corresponding to an alarm type to be manufactured (i.e., an alarm signal generated by a target network element) exists in the network management system, and if the test script exists, the test script is directly invoked without being generated again.

Step 206, feeding back 'the alarm signal can not be manufactured due to the mutual inhibition relation';

step 207, judging whether to clear the alarm signal, if so, executing step 208, otherwise, executing step 209;

in this embodiment, whether to clear the alarm signal may be set by a user or automatically triggered after all the alarm signals are determined to have been tested, and the specific manner is determined according to the test scenario, which is not limited in this application. The operation of clearing the alarm signal is equivalent to restoring the current network environment to the state before the alarm test process for the alarm test process.

Step 208, clearing the alarm signal;

the process of clearing the alarm signal in this embodiment is the same as the process of manufacturing the alarm signal in principle, except that the alarm test command is a corresponding alarm clearing command, and the specific manner how to generate and use the alarm clearing command to perform the alarm signal clearing may be referred to as step 205, and repeated detailed processes are not described again.

The present embodiment may provide two ways to clear the alarm signal:

mode 1, an alarm clearing command is input through a command line at the alarm manufacturing equipment side and is sent to a target network element.

And 2, sending an alarm test request message to the network management system, generating an alarm clearing command through the network management system and sending the alarm clearing command to the target network element.

The embodiment may also identify the state of the alarm type as cleared when it is determined that the alarm clear command is successfully issued.

And step 209, ending the alarm test.

As an optional implementation manner, after the alarm test is finished, the current configuration information of the target network element may also be restored by using the configuration information of the target network element that has been backed up in step 201, for example, the backed-up configuration information may be sent to the corresponding target network element, and the target network element updates the current configuration information after receiving the configuration information.

The embodiment of the invention can realize the alarm test by using the real network element, has no requirement on the degree of familiarity of the service of the tester in the whole test process, and only needs to automatically send the alarm test command to the target network element by using the test script file packaged in the alarm manufacturing equipment, thereby avoiding the complicated operation process and reducing the test risk caused by the wrong configuration of the test script. The system provided by the embodiment can simultaneously meet the requirement of simply performing alarm test on the network element equipment and simultaneously performing alarm reporting test on the network management system.

Example 2

Based on the alarm test system provided above, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an alarm test method applied to an alarm manufacturing device, as shown in fig. 4, the method includes:

step 400, determining a target network element and an alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element.

As an optional implementation, the determining the target network element includes:

acquiring the type and the alarm name of a target network element from a network management system;

the source address information of the target network element may be determined by the user and input to the alarm manufacturing device via the outside.

Step 401, according to the mutual suppression relation between the alarm signals of different alarm types, when the alarm signals are determined not to be suppressed, an alarm test command is sent to the target network element.

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

judging whether the alarm test command is successfully issued or not according to the echoed value of the target network element;

As an optional implementation, the method further includes:

and generating an alarm clearing command according to the test script.

Example 3

As shown in fig. 5, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an alarm testing method, which is applied to a network management system, and the method includes:

step 500, determining a target network element, determining an alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element according to a corresponding relation between the alarm signal and the alarm type, and sending the alarm type to alarm manufacturing equipment;

step 501, receiving an alarm signal reported by a target network element, and sending all alarm types corresponding to the alarm signal to alarm manufacturing equipment.

As an optional implementation, the method further includes:

As an optional implementation, generating an alarm test command includes:

generating an alarm clearing test command, comprising:

Example 4

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the present invention further provides an alarm manufacturing device, and since the device is the device in the method in embodiment 2 of the present invention, and the principle of the device to solve the problem is similar to that of the method, the implementation of the device may refer to the implementation of the method, and repeated details are not repeated.

As shown in fig. 6, the apparatus includes: a processor 600 and a memory 601, wherein the memory 601 stores program code that, when executed by the processor 600, causes the processor 600 to perform the steps of:

As an optional implementation manner, the processor 600 is further specifically configured to:

backing up the configuration information of the target network element and initializing the configuration information;

and after the alarm test is determined to be completed, restoring the configuration of the target network element through the backed-up configuration information.

As an optional implementation, the processor 600 is specifically configured to:

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

As an optional implementation, the processor 600 is specifically configured to:

alternatively, the processor 600 is specifically further configured to:

and when the alarm signal is determined to be cleared, sending an alarm clearing command to the target network element.

and generating an alarm clearing command according to the test script.

As an optional implementation, the processor 600 is specifically configured to:

Example 5

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a network management system, and since the network management system is the network management system in the method in embodiment 3 of the present invention, and the principle of the network management system to solve the problem is similar to that of the method, the implementation of the network management system can refer to the implementation of the alarm test method, and repeated details are not repeated.

As shown in fig. 7, the network management system includes: a processor 700 and a memory 701, wherein the memory 701 stores program code that, when executed by the processor 700, causes the processor 700 to perform the steps of:

As an optional implementation, the processor 700 is specifically further configured to:

As an optional implementation, the processor 700 is specifically configured to:

generating an alarm clearing test command, comprising:

Example 6

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the present invention further provides another alarm manufacturing device, and since the device is the device in the method in embodiment 2 of the present invention, and the principle of the device to solve the problem is similar to that of the method, the implementation of the device may refer to the implementation of the method, and repeated details are not repeated.

As shown in fig. 8, the apparatus includes: determining a target network element device 800 and an alarm testing device 801, wherein:

a target network element determining device 800, configured to determine a target network element and an alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element;

the alarm testing device 801 is configured to send an alarm test command to a target network element when determining that the alarm signal is not suppressed according to a mutual suppression relationship between alarm signals of different alarm types.

As an optional implementation manner, the apparatus further includes an initialization backup device and a configuration recovery device, where:

the initialization backup device is specifically configured to backup configuration information of the target network element and initialize the configuration information;

the restoration configuration device is specifically configured to restore the configuration of the target network element through the backed-up configuration information after determining that the alarm test is completed.

As an optional implementation manner, the alarm testing apparatus 801 is specifically configured to:

As an optional implementation manner, the apparatus further includes a script generation first device, specifically configured to:

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

As an optional implementation manner, the apparatus further includes a script generation second device, specifically configured to:

and extracting the code of the test object from an object library, extracting the code of the action of the test object from an action library, and generating an alarm test command.

As an optional implementation manner, the apparatus 800 for determining a target network element is further configured to:

As an optional implementation manner, the alarm testing apparatus 801 is further specifically configured to:

and generating an alarm clearing command according to the test script.

Example 7

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the present invention further provides another network management system, and since the network management system is the network management system in the method in embodiment 3 of the present invention, and the principle of the network management system to solve the problem is similar to that of the method, the implementation of the device may refer to the implementation of the method, and repeated details are not repeated.

As shown in fig. 9, the network management system includes: determining a target network element device 900, and a device for sending and receiving an alarm signal 901, wherein:

a target network element determining device 900, configured to determine a target network element, determine an alarm type of an alarm signal generated by the target network element according to a corresponding relationship between the alarm signal and the alarm type, and send the alarm type to an alarm manufacturing apparatus;

the device 901 for receiving and sending alarm signals is used to receive alarm signals reported by a target network element and send all alarm types corresponding to the alarm signals to alarm manufacturing equipment.

As an optional implementation, the method further includes generating an alarm device to:

As an optional implementation manner, the alarm generating device is further specifically configured to:

As an optional implementation manner, the alarm generating device is specifically configured to:

or, the alarm generating device is specifically configured to:

As an optional implementation manner, the target network element determining apparatus 900 is specifically configured to:

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program is executed by a processor to implement the following steps:

An embodiment of the present invention further provides another computer storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program is executed by a processor to implement the following steps:

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, 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, 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, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (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 700 of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor 700 of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, 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 apparatus 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 apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to include such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. An alarm testing method, applied to an alarm manufacturing apparatus, comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein before sending the alarm test command to the target network element, further comprising: backing up the configuration information of the target network element and initializing the configuration information;

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the alert signal is not suppressed comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarm test command is generated by:

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarm test command is generated by:

and generating an alarm test command according to the test script.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the alarm test command to the target network element comprises:

7. The method of claim 6, wherein after inputting the alarm test command via the command line and sending the alarm test command to the target network element, further comprising:

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the mutual suppression relation between the alarm signals of different alarm types is represented by a contiguous matrix structure.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the alarm type of the alarm signal generated by the target network element is performed by:

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

11. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the alarm test command to the target network element comprises:

12. The method of claim 1, wherein after sending an alarm test command to a target network element when it is determined that the alarm signal is not suppressed, further comprising: and when the alarm signal is determined to be cleared, sending an alarm clearing command to the target network element.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the alarm test command is generated by:

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the alarm clear command is generated by:

and generating an alarm clearing command according to the test script.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein sending the alarm clearing test command to the target network element comprises:

16. The method of claim 15, wherein after inputting the alarm clearing test command via the command line and sending the alarm clearing test command to the target network element, further comprising:

17. An alarm test method is characterized in that the method is applied to a network management system and comprises the following steps:

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

19. The method of claim 18, wherein after generating and sending the alarm test command to the target network element, further comprising:

20. The method of claim 18, wherein generating an alarm test command comprises:

generating an alarm clearing test command, comprising:

21. The method of claim 17, wherein after determining the target network element, further comprising:

22. An alarm testing system, the system comprising: target network element, network management system, warning manufacture equipment, wherein:

23. An alert manufacturing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: determining a target network element device and an alarm testing device, wherein:

24. A network management system is characterized in that the network management system comprises a target network element determining device and a warning signal receiving and sending device, wherein:

25. An alert manufacturing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of the method of any of claims 1 to 16.

26. A network management system, characterized in that the network management system comprises: a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of the method of any of claims 17 to 21.

27. A computer storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, the program, when executed by a processor, implementing the steps of a method according to any one of claims 1 to 16.

28. A computer storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, the program, when executed by a processor, implementing the steps of a method according to any one of claims 17 to 21.