DE112004001490T5 - Method for the integrated management and provision of services in communication networks - Google Patents

Abstract

Method for integrated management and provision of services, comprising the following steps:
Creating a management area for various types of services and subdividing this administrative area into multi-level administrative subdivisions;
Associate corresponding basic configuration information for each level of management subareas;
and distributing corresponding services according to the management area number provided by a user.

Description

Field of invention

The The present invention relates to the provision and management services in communication networks, and in particular a procedure for integrated management and deployment of many different Types of services in communication networks.

background the invention

in the The area of telecommunications today is network management for the Telecommunications services gradually become an important part of the various Become network management systems. Network management systems guarantee the functionality the service administration, thereby reducing the burden of those responsible are for the provision and maintenance of the telecommunications service, significantly reduced becomes.

With the emergence of more and more types of telecommunication services it is in the service management of network management systems too an urgent solution Problem, such as the integrated deployment and management Clear, compact and efficiently organized by many different types of services can be. However, there are no integrated methods Service delivery and management in most existing ones Network management systems. What is normally in existing Network management systems are used modes of deployment and managing many different types of services, which are separated from each other.

In One such method is the provision and management of separate types of telecommunications services, there is no relationship between them. From the point of view of the interfaces from network management systems, there are many service provisioning and management systems (each type of service has its own independent service system). For users there is no unified access to service administration of Network management systems. About that In addition, it is necessary to have some basic configuration parameters the equipment for to repeat each service provision and management system and even for any act of service provision and administration. this means size Inconvenience for User and results in disorder and decentralization in the hierarchy the service organization.

One Such a problem is not serious when in a network management system there are fewer types of services; however, it becomes significant if there are more types of services in a network management system gives. Especially with some integrated network management systems with a higher one Scope of integration, such problems become severe.

• 1. Die verschiedenen Arten von Diensten sind nicht integriert und es gibt keine einheitliche Schnittstelle für Anwender;
• 2. die Konfiguration einiger grundsätzlicher Ausstattungs- und Umgebungsparameter muss für jede Art von Dienst wiederholt werden, sogar für jede Handlung, was zu einer geringen Effizienz für den Anwender führt;
• 3. es gibt keine Unterteilung auf der Diensthierarchie und die Dienstorganisation ist in einem verwirrten, grundsätzlich ungeordneten Zustand;
• 4. da die Dienste nicht integriert sind, ist die Funktionalität gering und weist von der Funktionalität aus betrachtet geringe Unterschiede zu einiger Hauptcomputersoftware wie der Kommandozeile auf.

Solutions for providing and managing many different types of services independently of one another have the following specific disadvantages:

• 1. The different types of services are not integrated and there is no uniform interface for users;
• 2. the configuration of some basic equipment and environment parameters must be repeated for each type of service, even for each action, resulting in low efficiency for the user;
• 3. There is no subdivision on the service hierarchy and the service organization is in a confused, fundamentally disordered state;
• 4. Since the services are not integrated, the functionality is low and, from the functionality point of view, has little difference to some main computer software like the command line.

Summary the invention

Around the above disadvantages in the technology of deployment and manage many different types of services independently to overcome in the prior art Therefore, the present invention provides a new integrated method Management and provision of services, and thereby provides a solution for the unified, centralized administration of many different services in integrated large scale network management systems.

The method for integrated management and provision of services according to the present invention includes the steps of: providing a management area for various types services and subdivision of this management area into multi-level management sub-areas; Associating corresponding basic configuration information with the individual levels of the management sub-areas; provide corresponding services corresponding to a management area number provided by the user.

In One implementation of the present invention is the management area a reusable tree structure, preferably a binary tree structure. In such make The management area is divided into several by the following steps Layers split: division of the management area into level 1 management subareas according to geographical factors; Division of Level 1 Subareas in level 2 management sub-areas according to telecommunication service factors. The fundamental Configuration information associated with each level of management subunits can be: connecting geographic configuration information the service administration for the level 1 management subareas, connecting configuration information for individual service types for the level 2 management subspaces. The configuration information can network environment, protocol type, or provision of network segments, etc.

In a further embodiment The present invention includes the steps by which the Management area divided into multi-level administrative sub-areas Next: Establish a correlation between the last level management subunits and certain service objects. The specific service objects inherit public Configuration information in each level of the management subareas, to which the particular service objects belong.

• 1. Da die Dienststruktur in den Lösungen der vorliegenden Erfindung entsprechend einer Baumstruktur unterteilt ist, ist sie klar und daher einfach zu verwalten. Entsprechend können ein höheres Dienstintegrationsniveau und gute Funktionalität erreicht werden.
• 2. Mit den oben genannten Vorteilen der vorliegenden Erfindung kann die Integration verschiedener Arten von Diensten in beliebiger Weise bewerkstelligt werden, und es kann eine einheitliche externe Schnittstelle für die Anwender zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Dadurch kann das Problem der Unordnung der Dienstorganisation und Verwaltung im Stand der Technik überwunden werden.
• 3. Die vorliegende Erfindung beinhaltet auch das einzelne Konfigurieren und Verbinden grundsätzlicher Konfigurationsinformation, dadurch wird die Dienstkonfigurationseffizienz verbessert wird und die Komplexität der Dienstkonfiguration vermindert.

The present invention has the following advantageous effects:

• 1. Since the service structure is divided according to a tree structure in the solutions of the present invention, it is clear and therefore easy to manage. Accordingly, a higher service integration level and good functionality can be achieved.
• 2. With the above advantages of the present invention, the integration of various types of services can be accomplished in any manner, and a uniform external interface can be provided to the users. This can overcome the problem of disorder of service organization and management in the prior art.
• 3. The present invention also includes individually configuring and connecting basic configuration information, thereby improving service configuration efficiency and reducing the complexity of the service configuration.

Short description the drawings

1 Fig. 12 is a schematic drawing showing the structure of a service management area according to an implementation of the present invention.

detailed Description of preferred implementations

The present invention uses an integrated service provisioning and management mode with a service management area as the center. 1 Fig. 12 is a diagram showing the structure of the service management area according to an implementation of the present invention. The in 1 The service management area shown is a multi-path tree. The root node of the tree is a unified access point of the service management system. The configuration of the multi-level service management area may be arranged under the root node as needed. Theoretically, the multi-way tree structure can be extended indefinitely according to specific service needs. However, a 2-level or 3-level tree structure is recommended for practical use.

In such solutions The present invention classifies the principle of internal classification Processing with a unified external interface used to solve the problem that according to the state of the art there is no unified access for service management in network management systems. That is, in the Multi-tree structure of the above-mentioned service management area the root node becomes a unified external interface used. This gives it from the point of view of users who are providing need the service, only one user interface, i. it exists throughout the network management system only one access for Service provision and administration.

Under the point of practical service processing are the Services hierarchical and according to the service type in multi-tree structured Service management area processed.

In In a preferred embodiment, the multiway structure is a binary Tree structure. Under the root node in this binary tree Level 1 service management areas are determined by geographical factors subdivided so that after such a level 1 division level 1 service management areas for different geographical regions are formed; subsequently, each level 1 management area be subdivided according to telecommunication service factors so that after level 2 partitioning level 2 service management areas for different Types of services are formed based on level 1 management areas after the level 2 division.

A simple example of the management area is the following:

In This example includes "Guangdong Province "and" Guangzhou City "to Level 1 Service Management Areas, which are subdivided according to geographical factors. Additionally, Level 1 service management areas be divided further into layers according to geographical factors, e.g. belongs to "Guangzhou City "(of course you can too other cities and countries be included) to "Guangdong Province "." Service A "," Service B "and" service C "belong to level 2 management areas, which are subdivided according to telecommunication services; whereas "Device 1", "Device 2", etc. are currently manageable equipment under such types of service.

In The telecommunication service factors are an important type of classification of telecommunications services. Telecommunications services can different types are classified. For example, telecommunications services be classified as follows: voice services, multimedia services, Data services, etc., or they can are classified in: Type A Device Services, Type B Device Services etc .. Telecommunication services can, for example, be as follows Classified: IAD (Integrated Access Device) services, UMG (Universal Media Interface) Services, AMG (Access Media Gateway) services, etc. according to the terminal access devices.

Of course you can the service management area are divided in other ways. For example, you can Telecommunication services as the standard for the division of the first Level can be used and the subdivision of the second level happen according to geographical factors. Of course you can the subdivision standard also according to practical needs be determined. In other words, the subdivision standard be set and combined as desired. The subdivision can after any factor other than geographical factors or telecommunication services happen. There are many other subdivision standards, such as user group or number segment, etc., in addition to the subdivision standard of the combination of geographical factors and telecommunications services as mentioned above.

Level 2 service areas can also be broken down by other factors such as network environment the. Therefore, the multi-tree structure of the service management area described in the present invention has a good hierarchy. It can accommodate the unified, centralized management of different types of services, and the levels are associated with each other, simplifying search and maintenance; In addition, this model is highly expandable. All new telecommunications services can be incorporated into the administration by creating subnodes at appropriate positions in the model tree.

In The present invention will provide some basic configuration information for service delivery and management based on criteria of each configuration encapsulated with the service management area and shielded to the complexity in the service configuration and reduce the efficiency of the service configuration to increase. This means, the fundamental Configuration information is with the corresponding nodes in the service management area connected and it is not necessary for the user, the concrete Content of the basic To know configuration information or the basic Configure configuration information repeatedly. The user must while the practical service provision and management only the code (This may the name) of the corresponding service management area and all fundamental Configuration information of the service management area corresponding to the code can be obtained directly. In this way, the complexity of the actual Service provision and management are significantly reduced and the service configuration efficiency can be improved.

In The above example may have the associated basic configuration information e.g. Geographical nodes can be geographical Regions related information; Telecommunications service node can associated with telecommunication services related information (e.g., network environment, protocol type, or provision of Network segments, etc.); for knots At the same level are quantity and types of basic Configuration information is the same, e.g. is every telecommunications service node at the same level associated with a compilation of Network protocol, transmission standard and information about Network device groups, too if the specific content of the information is different.

With In other words, in the service management area in the one described above binary Tree structure can be the basic one Configuration information of service provisioning and management be connected further. That geographic configuration information for service management is related to Level 1 service management areas (i.e., service management areas divided by geographical Factors). additionally configuration information is associated with each specific service type in terms of Layer 2 service management areas (i.e., service management areas divided by telecommunication service factors).

in this connection the network environment refers to the network environment in which the services are provided. If e.g. the provision a service a central device A and terminal devices B and C, then A, B and C form a network environment for the present service provision.

Of the Protocol type shows e.g. on, whether the protocol, what communication between terminal equipment and the central device is used in the network environment, MGCP (media interfaces Control protocol) or an H.248 protocol or something similar is. Naturally can other protocols such as SIP (session initiation protocol, which is an application-level protocol for establishing, modifying and terminating multimedia sessions or calls), a V5 protocol or something similar.

The Deployment of network segments refers to deployment from existing network IP resources. For example, can be a network segment like 10.22.1.0 according to the real needs of network planning 10.22.1.110.22.1.100 is assigned to service A. and 10.22.1.10110.22.1.254 is assigned to service B.

For the user So it is only necessary while the actual service delivery and administration the code of the corresponding service management area make and repeat the configuration of the set of basic Configuration information can be avoided, reducing the efficiency service provision and management are significantly improved can and the complexity in the user service configuration can be reduced.

In another embodiment of the present invention, specific services may be provided by Er Extension of the above-described Mehrwegebaumstruktur continue to be considered. This means that specific service objects can be added under the last-level nodes in the service management area. For example, terminal access device nodes may be attached below the last-level node. In addition, terminal user nodes may also be added under the individual terminal user nodes. Similar to the above method, each parent node is associated with public configuration attributes and each child node (device node or terminal user node) can inherit these public configuration attributes from its corresponding parent node, thereby avoiding useless repetitive configurations. In addition, in this way, the entire service management and provisioning hierarchy from the root node to the child node of the last level is very clear and easy to manage.

The above description of the realization of the present invention is used to make the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art and not to limit the present invention. Therefore should all changes at the solutions the present invention, which is not in the spirit of the present Within the scope of the claims of the present invention fall.

Summary

The The present invention provides a method of integrated management and providing services available, the following steps including: creating a management area for various Types of services and subdivision of the management area into multilevel management subareas; Connect corresponding fundamentally Configuration information for the individual levels of management sub-areas; Distribution of corresponding Services in accordance with a management area number provided by a user. A higher one Service integration level and good functionality can be achieved, and one Uniform external interface can be achieved by the method of the present Invention for Users available be put. The problem of disorder of service organization and prior art management can be effectively overcome and the service configuration efficiency is improved and the complexity the service configuration is reduced.

Claims (9)

Integrated management and deployment process services, comprising the following steps: creation a management area for different types of services and subdivision of this management area in multi-level management subareas; Connect corresponding principle Configuration information for the individual levels of management sub-areas; and distribution corresponding services according to the user provided Administrative area number. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that that the management area is a multi-path tree. Method according to claim 2, characterized in that that the multipath tree is a binary tree. Method according to claim 1, characterized, that the steps to divide the management area into multi-level management subareas contain: Division of the management area into level 1 management subareas according to geographical factors; Subdivide the Level 1 Management Subareas in level 2 management sub-areas according to telecommunication service factors. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the steps for connecting respective basic configuration information for the individual levels of the management sub-areas include: Associating service configuration geographical configuration information with the level 1 management sub-areas; Connect the configuration information of each service type to the level 2 management subareas. Method according to claim 5, characterized in that that configuration information network environment, protocol type and providing network segments. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized characterized in that the steps of distributing corresponding Services according to the number of the service area provided by the user included: sending the principle Configuration information of the management area accordingly the management area number to the user. Method according to claim 7, characterized, that the steps through which the management area is divided into multi-level administrative sub-areas is divided, further includes: Establishing a correlation between last-level management subareas and certain service objects that perform corresponding service objects public Configuration information in each level of the management subareas, to which the particular service objects belong. Method according to claim 8, characterized, that the steps to establish the correlation between the last-level management sub-areas and the specific service objects include: Facility from terminal access device nodes under the last-level service management area nodes; Attachment of terminal user nodes under each terminal device node; connection corresponding public Configuration attributes for the terminal user nodes.