JP2007150875A - Alarm management method and signal transmission apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an alarm management method and a signal transmission apparatus to analyze a trouble more in detail with regard to the trouble occurred in a signal processing apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: The alarm management method generates an alarm data according to an abnormal state of the signal processing apparatus of a monitoring subject, manages the alarm data, repeatedly collects an operation state information from a plurality of detection points in the signal processing apparatus, judges whether the operation state information shows the abnormal state or not every time when the operation state information is collected, generates the alarm data including an identification information of at least one detection point corresponding to the abnormal state in the case that the abnormal state is shown, and holds the alarm data by overwriting it in a first storage area and holds at least one portion of the alarm data by additionally writing it in a second storage area every time the alarm data is generated. The signal transmission apparatus executes the alarm management method. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention generates alarm data in response to detection of an abnormal state of a signal processing apparatus such as a computer or a digital signal processing apparatus, manages the alarm data, and SDH ( The present invention relates to a signal transmission apparatus such as a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) transmission apparatus.

Conventionally, a signal transmission apparatus such as an SDH transmission apparatus is usually provided with an alarm management function in preparation for occurrence of a failure of the apparatus itself. As an example of the alarm management function provided in the signal transmission device, the alarm monitoring system disclosed in Patent Document 1 is efficient even when abnormalities occur frequently by providing importance to the items that are output as alarms. Is configured to display an alarm. In the plant warning monitoring display device disclosed in Patent Document 2, any means can be used by storing a warning storage address and a warning bit position for each warning type in a table, or a means for determining whether or not a plurality of warnings occur simultaneously It is possible to determine whether or not an alarm has been generated, and to cope with an increase or decrease in the number of alarm monitoring by adding / changing / deleting information in each table.
JP 2001-357470 A Japanese Patent No. 3410284

  However, even if an alarm that can deal with simultaneous occurrence of multiple alarms and increase / decrease in the number of alarm monitoring can be made by such conventional technology, it does not enable systematic failure analysis for analyzing the cause of failure. Further, even if each functional unit included in the signal processing device to be monitored is notified of the occurrence of a failure, it is not possible to specify a detailed failure position in the functional unit.

  An object of the present invention is to provide an alarm management method and a signal transmission device that enable a more detailed failure analysis of a failure occurring in a signal processing device.

  An alarm management method according to the present invention is an alarm management method for generating alarm data according to an abnormal state of a signal processing device to be monitored and managing the alarm data, and operates from a plurality of detection points in the signal processing device. A state collection step of repeatedly collecting the state information, and each time the operation state information is collected, it is determined whether or not the operation state information indicates an abnormal state. An alarm generation step for generating alarm data including identification information of at least one detection point corresponding to the abnormal state, and each time the alarm data is generated, the alarm data is overwritten and held in the first storage area, and An alarm holding step of additionally writing and holding at least a part of the alarm data in the second storage area.

  A signal transmission device according to the present invention is a signal transmission device including at least one signal processing unit and an alarm processing unit that generates alarm data according to an abnormal state of the signal processing unit and manages the alarm data. The alarm processing unit is configured to repeatedly collect operation state information from a plurality of detection points in the signal processing unit, and each time the operation state information is collected, the operation state information indicates an abnormal state. An alarm generation means for generating alarm data including identification information of at least one detection point corresponding to the abnormal state, and each time the alarm data is generated And alarm holding means for overwriting and holding the alarm data in the first storage area, and additionally writing and holding at least a part of the alarm data in the second storage area. And features.

  According to the alarm management method and the signal transmission device of the present invention, the first storage area in which the latest alarm data is always held and read out, and the second storage area in which the alarm data is continuously held and read out are provided. A configuration is provided for processing. In addition, identification information that facilitates identification of the failure location is held in the storage area. Thereby, more detailed failure analysis becomes possible.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention and shows the entire configuration including a signal transmission device. The signal transmission device 10 is an SDH type signal transmission device in which another communication device (not shown) such as a telephone exchange is connected via a line group 30 and transmits and receives communication signals and control signals via the line group 30. is there. The signal transmission device 10 includes three signal processing units, a line processing unit A11, a line processing unit B12, and a common unit 13, in which various transmission functions for realizing the SDH method are distributed. Each of these signal processing units 11 to 13 is a monitoring target in the alarm management method according to the present invention.

  The signal transmission device 10 also includes an alarm processing unit 14 that executes an alarm management method according to the present invention. The alarm processing unit 14 includes an alarm collection unit 15, an alarm determination unit 16, and an alarm storage unit 17. The alarm collecting unit 15 has a function of collecting operation state information by sensing a plurality of detection points of the line processing unit A11, the line processing unit B12, and the common unit 13. The alarm determination unit 16 has a function of determining the presence or absence of an alarm from the collected operating state information. The alarm storage unit 17 generates alarm data from the operation state information determined to be an alarm, and writes the data into the first storage area 18 and the second storage area 19 included in the alarm storage unit 17 Is provided. The 1-second alarm data is written in the first storage area 18, and the 1-day alarm data is written in the second storage area 19. The 1-second alarm data includes information on the latest alarm that is currently generated, which is obtained in units of one second, and the one-day alarm data includes information on a plurality of alarm histories in units of one day.

  An external terminal 20 is connected to the signal transmission device 10. The signal transmission device 10 has a function of fetching a display request from the external terminal 20, and reads and displays the 1-second alarm data written in the first storage area 18 when the display request is a display request for the latest alarm. And a function for reading and displaying the daily alarm data written in the second storage area 19 when the display request is a display request for the alarm history.

  FIG. 2 shows a configuration example of the 1-second alarm data shown in FIG. The 1-second alarm data D10 includes a current surface index D19, and a 1-second unit first surface D11 and a 1-second unit second surface D12 which are two storage areas as divided areas. The current plane index D19 is a pointer that indicates a plane on which 1-second alarm data generated by alarm collection is to be overwritten. Each of the 1-second unit first surface D11 and the 1-second unit second surface D12 has the same format, and each surface is used alternately every second. That is, during the alarm collection process, the 1-second alarm data is overwritten on the surface designated by the current surface index D19 (the first surface D11 in the unit of 1 second in this figure). On the other hand, in order to display the currently occurring alarm in spite of the alarm collection process, the 1-second alarm data (the second surface D12 in 1 second unit in this figure) of the surface not designated by the current surface index D19 is externally displayed. Read from the terminal 20 (see FIG. 1). In this example, the 1-second alarm data on the second surface D12 in 1-second units is already written at the previous timing.

  Referring to the 1-second first surface D11 in detail, the model identification 31, the alarm type 32, and the occurrence location 33 are combined into one combination, and one or more of the combinations are overwritten according to the number of alarms. Is newly written in the blank state with the contents of deleted. Looking at an example of one combination, the identifier “# 1” indicating the line processing unit A is set as the model identification 31, and “EQP” indicating that the device is abnormal is set as the alarm type 32. ing. In the occurrence location 33, an occurrence location number “1” indicating that the occurrence location is the detection point “C1” (see FIG. 5) is set.

  FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of the daily alarm data shown in FIG. The daily alarm data D20 includes a current surface index D29 and a daily unit first surface D21 to eighth surface D28 which are eight storage areas as divided areas. The daily first side D21 to the eighth side D28 store alarm data for 7 days + preliminary 1 day as alarm history for one week, and are used repeatedly every week. The contents of the daily alarm data D20 are read from the external terminal 20 as a past alarm history regardless of the current alarm collection process.

  For each of the first day unit first surfaces D21 to D28, the surface corresponding to the current day is designated by the current surface index D29. In the example of this figure, the daily unit first surface D21 is indicated. In this case, in the daily alarm data D21, the 1-second unit data described in FIG. 2 is added to the previous contents of the daily alarm data D21 in parallel with the writing to the 1-second alarm data D10. Is additionally written to. The daily alarm data D20 also holds an EQP generation position D30 as the latest generation location information. In the EQP generation position D30, the latest generation location number at the time of history display is set.

  Referring to the daily unit first surface D21 in detail, the model identification 31, the alarm type 32, the occurrence location 33, and the number of times of integration 34 are combined as one combination, and one or more of the combinations according to the number of alarms are the previous contents. In other words, if a combination of the model identification 31, the alarm type 32, and the occurrence location 33 has already been written, the number of integrations 34 of the combination is counted up. On the other hand, if the combination has not yet been written, the combination is additionally written with the integration count 34 as “1”.

  Looking at an example of one combination, the identifier “# 1” indicating the line processing unit A is set as the model identification 31, and “EQP” indicating that the device is abnormal is set as the alarm type 32. ing. In the occurrence location 33, an occurrence location number “1” indicating that the occurrence location is the detection point “C1” (see FIG. 5) is set, and “2” is set as the integration count 34. The example of this combination indicates that the alarm having the alarm type EQP in the line processing unit A occurs twice on the day at the detection point “C1”.

  In this embodiment, the 1-second unit data stores all occurrence location numbers of the on-going alarm and also stores all occurrence location numbers in the 1-day data. It is also possible to store a part of the alarm data due to the limitation of the memory of the device or the necessity for analysis.

  FIG. 4 shows a processing procedure executed by the alarm processing unit shown in FIG. The processing procedure will be described with reference to the components shown in FIGS. Further, the following processing is repeatedly performed and executed.

  The alarm processing unit 14 of the signal transmission device 10 collects alarms by sensing the operation state information of each functional unit of the line processing unit A11, the line processing unit B12, and the common unit 13, for example, every second (step S1). . The alarm processing unit 14 determines whether or not there is an alarm indicating an abnormal state from the operation state information (step S2). If it is determined that there is no alarm, the collection interval (1 second) is passed (step S7), and the alarm collection in step S1 is repeated.

  If it is determined that there is an alarm, the alarm processing unit 14 generates alarm data from the alarm (step S3). The alarm data includes the function unit identification, alarm type, and occurrence location number of the function unit in which the abnormal state is detected. Next, the alarm processing unit 14 overwrites the alarm data in the first storage area 18 of the alarm storage unit 17 as 1-second alarm data D10 (step S4). Further, the alarm processing unit 14 additionally writes the alarm data as the daily alarm data D20 in the second storage area 19 (step S5).

  Furthermore, when the alarm type is “EQP”, the alarm processing unit 14 writes the latest occurrence location number in the portion of the EQ generation location D30 of the daily alarm data D20 (step S6). When the writing is completed, the alarm processing unit 14 waits for the collection interval (1 second) (step S7), and repeats the alarm collection process in step S1 (step S8).

  During the above alarm processing, when the external terminal 20 requests to read the latest alarm that is currently generated, 1-second alarm data D10 is output. When the alarm history is requested to be read from the external terminal 20, the daily alarm data D20 is output. For example, when an alarm history is requested for one day, which is Tuesday, an alarm is output only for an item whose alarm occurrence is “1 or more” in the contents of the second side of the day. Further, the latest alarm occurrence location number with the alarm type “EQP” may be displayed on the external terminal 20 as the EQP occurrence position D30.

In the above embodiment, if the failure has occurred continuously, the failure location can be identified by reading the contents of the 1-second alarm data D10 from the external terminal 20. Further, even if a failure has been recovered at the present time, the failure location can be specified by reading the contents of the daily alarm data D20 from the external terminal 20 as the alarm history.
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FIG. 6 is a modified example of the present invention, and explains an alarm number assigning rule that integrates importance and occurrence location numbers. As shown in the figure, the alarm number 40 is defined by integrating the importance 41 and the occurrence location number 42 into 1-byte 8-bit data. For example, the alarm name “input CLK disconnection” detected at the detection point “C1” among the alarms of the line processing unit A has the importance “1” and the occurrence location number “1” (FIG. 7). reference). Therefore, the alarm number 40 becomes “10000001” of 8 bits by assigning importance “1” to 1 bit of the first bit and assigning the occurrence location number “1” to the lower 7 bits. This decimal notation is “129”.

  Such an alarm number is set in the EQP occurrence position D30 (see FIG. 3) included in the daily unit alarm data D20. Further, when alarms are generated simultaneously, an alarm number having a higher importance is set. As a result, it is possible to determine the importance of the failure content simultaneously with the identification of the failure location from the occurrence position number. The correspondence between the alarm occurrence location and the importance can be set in advance for each alarm type as shown in FIG.

  In the above modification, it is possible to easily identify the failure occurrence part and determine the importance of the failure content from the occurrence point number of the displayed EQP occurrence position. Further, when a plurality of alarms are generated, a failure having a low importance level is suppressed, and an occurrence location number having the highest importance level is displayed, so that an efficient display is possible.

  The alarm management method and the signal transmission device according to the present invention are not limited to a signal transmission device such as an SDH transmission device. The alarm management method according to the present invention can be applied to an apparatus including various monitoring target signal processing apparatuses in which a large number of detection points for abnormality detection are assumed.

It is a block diagram which shows the Example of this invention and shows the structure of the signal transmission apparatus. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of 1 second alarm data shown by FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the 1-day alarm data shown by FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence which the warning process part shown by FIG. 1 performs. It is the figure which shows the detail of the alarm generation | occurrence | production location in a table format. This is a modified example of the present invention, and an alarm number assignment rule in which importance and occurrence point numbers are integrated is described. It is the figure which has shown the detail of an alarm generation | occurrence | production location and importance in a table format.

Explanation of symbols

10 Signal Transmission Device 11 Line Processing Unit A
12 Line processor B
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 13 Common part 14 Alarm processing part 15 Alarm collection part 16 Alarm determination part 17 Alarm storage part 18 1st memory area 19 2nd memory area 20 External terminal 30 Line group D10 1 second alarm data D20 1 day alarm data D30 EQP generation position

Claims (10)

An alarm management method for generating alarm data according to an abnormal state of a signal processing device to be monitored and managing the alarm data,
A state collection step of repeatedly collecting operation state information from a plurality of detection points in the signal processing device;
Each time the operational state information is collected, it is determined whether or not the operational state information indicates an abnormal state. When the operational state information indicates an abnormal state, the identification information of at least one detection point corresponding to the abnormal state An alarm generation step for generating alarm data including:
An alarm holding step of overwriting and holding the alarm data in the first storage area each time the alarm data is generated, and additionally writing and holding at least a part of the alarm data in the second storage area;
An alarm management method comprising: In response to a latest alarm display request, the latest alarm display step of reading the contents of the one storage area and displaying the contents,
In response to an alarm history display request, the contents of the two storage areas are read and an alarm history display step for displaying the contents is displayed;
The alarm management method according to claim 1, further comprising:   The alarm generation step according to claim 1, wherein the alarm generation step is a step of generating alarm data including at least one of function identification, alarm type, and occurrence location number as identification information of the detection point. Management method.   The alarm management method according to claim 3, wherein the alarm generation step is a step of generating alarm data including information indicating importance of the abnormal state as identification information of the detection point.   The alarm holding step divides the first storage area into two divided areas, alternately switches each of the divided areas every time the alarm data is generated, and overwrites the alarm data in the switched divided areas. The alarm management method according to claim 1, wherein the alarm management method is a step of holding.   In the alarm holding step, the second storage area is divided into a plurality of divided areas, each of the divided areas is sequentially switched every predetermined period, and the alarm data is additionally written and held in the switched divided areas. The alarm management method according to claim 1, wherein the alarm management method is a step.   The alarm holding step is a step of writing and holding only the accumulated number of alarms when the detection point corresponding to the abnormal state is the same detection point as before. 6. The alarm management method according to 6.   The alarm holding step further includes a step of writing and holding the identification information of the detection point having the highest importance among the plurality of detection points corresponding to the abnormal state in the second storage area. The alarm management method according to claim 6. A signal transmission device including at least one signal signal processing unit, and an alarm processing unit that generates alarm data according to an abnormal state of the signal processing unit and manages the alarm data,
The alarm processing unit
State collecting means for repeatedly collecting operation state information from a plurality of detection points in the signal processing unit;
Each time the operational state information is collected, it is determined whether or not the operational state information indicates an abnormal state. When the operational state information indicates an abnormal state, the identification information of at least one detection point corresponding to the abnormal state Alarm generating means for generating alarm data including:
An alarm holding means for overwriting and holding the alarm data in the first storage area each time the alarm data is generated, and additionally writing and holding at least a part of the alarm data in the second storage area;
A signal transmission device comprising: Means for capturing a display request supplied from an external terminal;
When the display request is a display request for the latest alarm, the latest alarm display means for displaying the contents of the first storage area;
An alarm history display means for displaying the contents of the second storage area when the display request is a display request for an alarm history;
The signal transmission device according to claim 9, further comprising:

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