CN1917419A - System and method for enhancing reliability of software patch of net element devices - Google Patents
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The invention comprises a main apparatus and a stand by apparatus. The main apparatus synchronizes the operation of its patch file to the stand by apparatus automatically or based on the request from the stand by apparatus; the stand by apparatus synchronously executes the operation in order to keep in line with the main apparatus. The invention also provides a method for enhancing the reliability of software patch of network element device.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to the communications field, especially relate to a kind of system and method that strengthens reliability of software patch of net element devices.
Background technology
As telecom carrier-class device, network element NE has proposed higher requirement aspect reliability of system operation, so the network element master control borad modes of active and standby dual-host backup or multi-computer back-up that adopt are carried out Redundancy Design more.During normal operation, by main computer (being host apparatus) processing service data, when main computer breaks down, system's generation masterslave switchover, guest machine (being stand-by equipment) is upgraded to main usefulness, continues processing service data, guarantees not interrupt at line service.When system business is not busy (as morning) also can initiatively carry out masterslave switchover, improve reliability of system operation.
Software patch is that software is formally issued a kind of conventional means that the back replenishes releasing software.Carrier class NE equipment is very responsive to service disconnection, and the annual service outage duration of some big telecommunication apparatus Carrier Requirements is no more than a few minutes, and therefore the reliability to system has proposed very high requirement.Software patch is used for carrying out the online repairing of system defect and the new function of online dynamic increase, new features, satisfy new demand, by giving NE master control borad on-line loaded software patch, can under the situation of not carrying out edition upgrading, non-interrupting service, finish the modification of system defect and replenishing of new function.
The on-line loaded patch is meant that the patch file that will make is with certain approach, as TFTP or FTP etc., upload to the target master control borad, under the situation that does not influence other function operations of system, the patch operation is come into force by the system management maintenance subsystem on the target master control borad.
Adopt main control board, the slave control board difference independent loads patch of dual-host backup, the patch on main control board, the slave control board is operated separately and management maintenance.Patch and the patch on the slave control board on the main control board are relatively independent.Yet there is following shortcoming in it:
1, main control board, slave control board patch separate independent management maintenance, ease for use, operability, maintainable poor;
2, the patch file on main control board, the slave control board may be inconsistent, and both software versions are consistent, can not reach the purpose of dual systems redundancy backup cmpletely;
When 3, the patch file on main control board, the slave control board is inconsistent, bring hidden danger for the reliability service of system, the user may not recognize this inconsistent, and normal operation may bring destructive consequence to system under unwitting situation.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention is, overcome the deficiency that above-mentioned prior art exists, a kind of system and method that strengthens reliability of software patch of net element devices is provided, automatically the patch of host apparatus is backed up with raising patch reliability by stand-by equipment, and then further improve system reliability.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of system that strengthens reliability of software patch of net element devices, comprise host apparatus and stand-by equipment, described host apparatus is automatic or answer described stand-by equipment request that its operation to patch file is synchronized on the described stand-by equipment automatically, and described stand-by equipment is carried out described operation synchronously to be consistent with described host apparatus.
Further, describedly main be equipped with the patch management module with, stand-by equipment, the patch management order that described host apparatus patch management module is used for host apparatus is issued sends to stand-by equipment; Described stand-by equipment patch management module is used for receiving and carrying out described order.
Further, describedly main be equipped with file transfer management module with, stand-by equipment; The patch file that described host apparatus file transfer management module is used for loading on the host apparatus sends to stand-by equipment, and described stand-by equipment file transfer management module is used for receiving and preserving described file.
Further, describedly main be equipped with file transfer management module and patch management module with, stand-by equipment; The patch management module that the patch management module of described host apparatus is used to receive the patch information of stand-by equipment and/or the patch information of host apparatus is sent to stand-by equipment; Described host apparatus file transfer management module is used for the patch file of host apparatus is sent to the file transfer management module of stand-by equipment; The patch management module of described stand-by equipment is used for finishing the automatic management to the stand-by equipment patch file according to the patch information that receives; The file transfer management module of described stand-by equipment is used for sending the patch information of stand-by equipment and/or receiving the patch information of host apparatus from host apparatus to host apparatus.
Further, described host apparatus and stand-by equipment also comprise primary, spare device data synchronization module, and described host apparatus data simultaneous module is used for transfer management module and patch management module that the patch file of described host apparatus and state thereof are sent to stand-by equipment; Described stand-by equipment data simultaneous module is used for finishing the automatic management to the stand-by equipment patch file according to the patch file and the state thereof that receive.
The present invention also provides a kind of method that strengthens reliability of software patch of net element devices, may further comprise the steps:
A. host apparatus is carried out to stand-by equipment the operation synchronized transmission of its patch file.
Further, under the situation of new loading patch file, described steps A specifically may further comprise the steps:
A11. after host apparatus is loaded into this machine with patch file, described patch file is sent to stand-by equipment; And
A12. stand-by equipment receives and preserves described patch file.
Further, patch file is managed under the situation of operation at host apparatus, described steps A specifically may further comprise the steps:
A21. host apparatus sends to stand-by equipment with described order after this machine is carried out the patch management order; And
A22. stand-by equipment receives and carries out described order.
Further, under the synchronous situation of stand-by equipment request and host apparatus, described steps A specifically may further comprise the steps:
A31. stand-by equipment is given host apparatus with himself patch file and state information report; And
A32. the described patch file and the state information that receive of host apparatus inspection found and self patch file and state information when inconsistent, then its patch file and state information sent on the stand-by equipment and carries out.
Further, the synchronized transmission in the described steps A is finished by exclusive data or signaling channel, or finishes by data and signaling mixed channel.
The present invention has following useful effect: the scene that 1, is equipped with host apparatus and stand-by equipment simultaneously, the user need not consider separately stand-by equipment to be carried out the patch operation, host apparatus, stand-by equipment patch are unified Operation and Maintenance, on the host apparatus operation of patch is synchronized on the stand-by equipment automatically and carries out, simplification improves ease for use, operability, maintainability to the Operation and Maintenance of patch on the stand-by equipment; 2, can both guarantee that under various scenes the patch and the running status thereof of host apparatus and stand-by equipment is consistent automatically in system's running, realize the fully redundance backup of stand-by equipment, improve patch reliability, system reliability host apparatus.
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Fig. 1 is a kind of schematic flow sheet that strengthens the method for reliability of software patch of net element devices of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram that patch file is loaded into stand-by equipment automatically among the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the schematic diagram that stand-by equipment is notified in the patch management order automatically among the present invention.
Fig. 4 is the schematic flow sheet that among the present invention host apparatus patch file and state thereof is synchronized to automatically stand-by equipment.
Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram that the present invention realizes another synchronous embodiment.
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Describe the present invention below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
System comprises plurality of processes to the application of patch, as shown in Figure 1:
1) loading of patch: patch file is loaded the equipment that uploads to;
2) management maintenance of patch file: patch is come into force by certain rule.
The present invention mainly solves being furnished with the equipment of redundancy backup, and stand-by equipment keeps the solution of patch file and patch state unanimity automatically with host apparatus in all cases, realizes the backup to the host apparatus patch, to improve the reliability of system mend.
1, patch file is loaded into equipment
Under the situation that is not equipped with stand-by equipment, the loading of patch file is the loading of stand-alone device patch file just, implementation procedure is not that the present invention will pay close attention to, and the present invention describes to be furnished with under the situation of stand-by equipment, and patch file is loaded into the implementation procedure of stand-by equipment automatically.
Please refer to shown in Figure 2, file load module on the host apparatus uploads to this machine by communication protocol from network management system EMS with patch file, under original scheme situation, host apparatus can be configured to patch file the internal memory patch area of host apparatus and be saved in the FLASH of host apparatus this moment, or in the similar medium with data hold function, ending said process then.Among the present invention, finish the loading procedure that does not finish patch file after the processing of this machine patch file immediately when the host apparatus file load module, but the session of the file load module on startup and the stand-by equipment, continue to send to stand-by equipment by the active and standby patch file that will just upload with the communication port of equipment room, host apparatus finishes this operational processes after stand-by equipment correctly receives patch file, stand-by equipment then continues the patch file of receiving is finished the processing identical with host apparatus, to keep the active and standby unanimity of uploading that loads with the equipment patch file.Under the abnormal conditions, if stand-by equipment is handled failure, retry several times after, if is that all right merit needs notice host apparatus alarm prompt user.Through said process, by once-through operation, patch file successively uploads to the active and standby equipment of use, has finished active and standby synchronous with patch file on the equipment automatically.
2, the management maintenance of patch file
Please refer to shown in Figure 3 again, be furnished with under the situation of stand-by equipment, all operations that on host apparatus patch file is carried out such as patch action command all can notify the patch management module of stand-by equipment to carry out by the patch management module of host apparatus, realize the management automatically synchronously to the stand-by equipment patch.
Through top two processes, to be furnished with under the stand-by equipment situation, stand-by equipment is soft to the system of host apparatus except realizing, hardware redundancy is standby, has also realized the patch backup to host apparatus simultaneously, thereby has improved the reliability of system mend.
3, the stand-by equipment patch file that newly is equipped with under the situation of the existing patch of host apparatus is synchronous automatically
If the two kinds of operations in front all are to carry out under the scene of Dan Peiyi cover host apparatus, then everything is all finished separately on host apparatus, and is irrelevant with stand-by equipment.Be loaded with patch file and patch carried out under the situation of condition managing at host apparatus, if system's increase has been disposed stand-by equipment and has been used as redundancy backup to host apparatus, then need the state of patch file on the host apparatus and file is synchronized to stand-by equipment automatically with reliability that improves the host apparatus patch and then the reliability that improves whole system.The present invention provides a kind of method that host apparatus patch file and state thereof is synchronized to automatically stand-by equipment.Specifically as shown in Figure 4.
Behind the stand-by equipment electrifying startup, patch management module on the stand-by equipment initiatively reports host apparatus patch management module with the patch file information on this equipment, host apparatus patch management module is checked after receiving stand-by equipment patch file information, if find patch file information inconsistency with this equipment, then start simultaneous operation, its operation to patch file is synchronized on the stand-by equipment carries out, idiographic flow is as follows: circular document transfer management module at first, the notified back startup of file transfer management module is communicated by letter with stand-by equipment file transfer management module, patch file on the host apparatus is sent to stand-by equipment, stand-by equipment file transfer management module is carried out the patch memory setting and is preserved processing after receiving whole patch files, echoing for after handling successfully host apparatus file transfer management module should, host apparatus file transfer management module receives that notice host apparatus patch management module in response back begins to carry out the synchronous of patch state, the patch file state of all host apparatus can send to stand-by equipment patch management module, stand-by equipment patch management module receive after the patch state of host apparatus according to this to all patches on this equipment carry out condition managing with host apparatus on patch state be consistent.
Through said process, behind the new outfit stand-by equipment electrifying startup, patch on the host apparatus and state thereof all are synchronized to stand-by equipment automatically, have realized that stand-by equipment is soft to the system of host apparatus, whole redundancy backups of hardware and patch, have improved the reliability of system.In addition, this mode also can expand in the course of the work, and stand-by equipment (when being included in abnormality) active at any time reports self patch file and corresponding state information to host apparatus, host apparatus is found inconsistent with this equipment on inspection, then in time associated patch file and state information are synchronized to stand-by equipment, make winner's usefulness, stand-by equipment can keep the synchronous of patch file, enhanced system reliability regularly.
Patch file and state information can also take other modes to be synchronized to stand-by equipment automatically, for example, data simultaneous module all is set in host apparatus and stand-by equipment, system is a system data with patch file and state processing thereof, the host apparatus data simultaneous module arrives stand-by equipment with this system data synchronization, the call back function interface that calls the patch management module by the stand-by equipment data simultaneous module is finished the automatic management to the stand-by equipment patch file, as shown in Figure 5.
The scene that is equipped with a cover stand-by equipment has only been described in the present embodiment, to being equipped with the application scenarios of many cover stand-by equipments, back up as N+1, all belong to the scope that the present invention covers, how much overlap stand-by equipment because no matter have, basic principle is identical, and the stand-by equipment of mentioning among the present invention can be regarded the general designation of stand-by equipment as.
The present invention is equipped with the scene of host apparatus and stand-by equipment at the same time, the user need not consider separately stand-by equipment to be carried out the patch operation, host apparatus, stand-by equipment patch are unified Operation and Maintenance, on the host apparatus operation of patch is synchronized on the stand-by equipment automatically and carries out, simplification improves ease for use, operability, maintainability to the Operation and Maintenance of patch on the stand-by equipment; Can both guarantee that under various scenes the patch and the running status thereof of host apparatus and stand-by equipment is consistent automatically in system's running, realize the fully redundance backup of stand-by equipment, improve patch reliability, system reliability host apparatus.
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1, a kind of system that strengthens reliability of software patch of net element devices, it is characterized in that: comprise host apparatus and stand-by equipment, described host apparatus is automatic or answer described stand-by equipment request that its operation to patch file is synchronized on the described stand-by equipment automatically, and described stand-by equipment is carried out described operation synchronously to be consistent with described host apparatus.
2, system according to claim 1 is characterized in that: describedly main be equipped with the patch management module with, stand-by equipment, the patch management order that described host apparatus patch management module is used for host apparatus is issued sends to stand-by equipment; Described stand-by equipment patch management module is used for receiving and carrying out described order.
3, system according to claim 1 is characterized in that: describedly main be equipped with file transfer management module with, stand-by equipment; The patch file that described host apparatus file transfer management module is used for loading on the host apparatus sends to stand-by equipment, and described stand-by equipment file transfer management module is used for receiving and preserving described file.
4, system according to claim 1 is characterized in that: describedly main be equipped with file transfer management module and patch management module with, stand-by equipment; The patch management module that the patch management module of described host apparatus is used to receive the patch information of stand-by equipment and/or the patch information of host apparatus is sent to stand-by equipment; Described host apparatus file transfer management module is used for the patch file of host apparatus is sent to the file transfer management module of stand-by equipment; The patch management module of described stand-by equipment is used for finishing the automatic management to the stand-by equipment patch file according to the patch information that receives; The file transfer management module of described stand-by equipment is used for sending the patch information of stand-by equipment and/or receiving the patch information of host apparatus from host apparatus to host apparatus.
5, system according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described host apparatus and stand-by equipment also comprise primary, spare device data synchronization module, and described host apparatus data simultaneous module is used for the patch file and the state thereof of described host apparatus are sent to stand-by equipment; Described stand-by equipment data simultaneous module is used for finishing the automatic management to the stand-by equipment patch file according to the patch file and the state thereof that receive.
6, a kind of method that strengthens reliability of software patch of net element devices may further comprise the steps: A. carries out to the operation synchronized transmission of its patch file host apparatus to stand-by equipment.
7, method according to claim 6 is characterized in that: under the situation of new loading patch file, described steps A specifically may further comprise the steps:
A11. after host apparatus is loaded into this machine with patch file, described patch file is sent to stand-by equipment; And
A12. stand-by equipment receives and preserves described patch file.
8, method according to claim 6 is characterized in that: patch file is managed under the situation of operation at host apparatus, described steps A specifically may further comprise the steps:
A21. host apparatus sends to stand-by equipment with described order after this machine is carried out the patch management order; And
A22. stand-by equipment receives and carries out described order.
9, method according to claim 6 is characterized in that: under the synchronous situation of stand-by equipment request and host apparatus, described steps A specifically may further comprise the steps:
A31. stand-by equipment is given host apparatus with himself patch file and state information report; And
A32. the described patch file and the state information that receive of host apparatus inspection found and self patch file and state information when inconsistent, then its patch file and state information sent on the stand-by equipment and carries out.
10, according to one of them described method of claim 6-9, it is characterized in that: the synchronized transmission in the described steps A is finished by exclusive data or signaling channel, or finishes by data and signaling mixed channel.
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