KR100264791B1 - Communication integrated management network system and control station management period message conversion device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention collects management data of a mobile communication system in order to manage a mobile communication system in a communication management network system (TMN), which can recognize management data collected from a control station manager of a mobile communication system in a TMN agent. By providing a device and method for converting management data, the TMN agent does not directly access the underlying system of the mobile communication system to collect the management data when collecting the management data, but accesses the management data only from the TMN agent to the control station manager. To collect. The present invention defines an interface message that can be commonly recognized by the message converter and the TMN agent, and after establishing a data communication path between the control station manager and the message converter and the TMN agent of the mobile communication system, collected in the control station manager By converting the management data from the message converter to the interface message and transmitting the interface message to the TMN agent, the implementation of the mobile communication system management data collection device of the TMN agent is simplified, and the stability and reliability of the collecting operation are improved.

Description

Communication integrated management network system and control station management period message conversion device and method thereof

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an agent of a Telecommunication Management Network system (hereinafter abbreviated as " TMN ") system, and more particularly to a Digital Cellular System (DCS), a personal mobile communication in a TMN. In order to manage a mobile communication system such as a personal communication system (PCS), it is to collect the management data collected by the control station manager of the mobile communication system without directly collecting the management data from the mobile communication system.

In general, TMN is a system for managing both mobile communication systems such as DCS and PCS. The TMN includes a TMN agent, and when the TMN Manager requests management of the mobile communication system, the TMN agent manages the lower mobile communication system.

To manage the personal mobile communication system, the TMN agent collects all management data and messages generated by the personal mobile communication system. At this time, the TMN agent collects management data through data communication with the PCS.

In order for the TMN agent to collect management data generated in the PCS personal mobile communication system, the TMN agent must collect the management data in direct connection with the mobile communication system. That is, while the TMN agent monitors each device of the PCS, when data is generated in each device, the generated data is periodically collected and the collected data is reported to the TMN Manager through data communication.

However, since PCS has a very complicated structure and various sub-applications are operating, it is very difficult to implement data communication for collecting all data to manage all data generated from PCS. there was.

In addition, since the management information data of the TMN agent's subsystem consists of a wide variety of specifications and structures, there is a problem that the TMN agent defines a message for receiving management data and implements interworking with the subsystem.

The control station manager of the mobile communication system collects management data to manage the mobile communication system. A system interlocking operation for collecting management data of the control station manager and an interlocking operation for collecting management data from the TMN agent are performed. Since the same, the management data collection operation in the TMN agent and the control station manager is repeated, there is also a problem that the efficiency is reduced in terms of overall system operation.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve the conventional problems as described above, and an object of the present invention is to convert the management data collected by the control station manager of the mobile communication system into management data recognizable by the TMN. By implementing the device, the TMN collects the management data collected by the control station manager of the mobile communication system, thereby simplifying the configuration of the management data collection device of the TMN and simplifying the process of collecting the management data. An apparatus for converting messages between control station managers (BSMs) is provided.

In order to achieve the above object, a message conversion device between a communication management network (TMN) and a control station manager (BSM) according to the present invention,

A control station manager interworking unit for interworking with a control station manager (BSM) that collects management data of the mobile communication system, and transmitting management data transmitted from the control station manager to the central processing unit; A main memory for storing a program for converting management data collected by the control station manager into management data recognizable by the TMN agent; A central processing unit for executing a program stored in the main memory and converting management data collected by the control station manager into management data recognizable by a TMN agent; The technical configuration is characterized by consisting of the TMN interlocking unit for transmitting the management data converted by the central processing unit to the TMN agent.

Another object of the present invention is to convert the management data collected by the control station manager of the mobile communication system into management data that can be recognized by the TMN, so that the TMN does not directly access the mobile communication system to collect management data, but rather mobile communication. The present invention provides a method for converting a message between a TMN and a BSM that makes it easy to collect management data collected by a control station manager of a system.

In order to achieve the above object, a message conversion method between a communication management network (TMN) system and a control station manager (BSM) according to the present invention,

An interface message defining step of defining an interface message for mapping management data collected by a control station manager (BSM) of the mobile communication system to management data recognizable by the TMN; An interworking preparation step of initializing the control station manager interworking unit for interworking with the control station manager (BSM), driving the TMN interworking unit for interworking with the TMN agent, and establishing a data communication path between the control station manager and the TMN agent; After performing the interworking preparation step, when the control station manager interworking unit is inspected and the management data transmitted from the BSM exists in the control station manager interworking unit, the management data is retrieved from the control station manager interworking unit and recognized by the TMN agent. It is characterized in that the method configuration performs a message interface step of transmitting the converted interface message to the TMN agent after converting it to an interface message.

1 is a block diagram of a message conversion device between a TMN and a BSM according to the present invention;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a message conversion method between a TMN and a BSM according to the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: Control station manager 20: TMN agent

30: Message Converter 31: CPU

33: main memory 35: control station manager linkage

36: Message queue I / O device 37: TMD linkage

38: socket input / output device

Hereinafter, an apparatus and method for converting a message between a communication management network (TMN) system and a control station manager (BSM) according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, the operation of the TMN agent to interface with the PCS system and the operation of the control station manager to interface with the PCS system are performed in the same way. Therefore, the TMN agent accesses the control station manager and collects the PCS system collected by the control station manager. If the management information is changed to data that can be recognized by the TMN, the management data required by the TMN agent can be collected.

1 is a block diagram of a message conversion device between a TMN and a BSM according to the present invention.

As shown here, the control station manager interworking unit for transmitting the management data transmitted from the control station manager 10 to the central processing unit 31 in conjunction with the control station manager 10 collecting the management data of the PCS system ( 35); A main memory 33 for storing a program for converting management data collected by the control station manager 10 into management data recognizable by the TMN agent 20; A central processing unit (31) for executing a program stored in the main memory (32) to convert management data collected by the control station manager (10) into management data recognizable by the TMN agent (20); It is composed of a TMN interworking unit 37 for transmitting the data converted by the central processing unit 31 to the TMN agent 20.

The control station manager interworking unit 35 is composed of a message queue input / output device 36 for transmitting and receiving data in cooperation with the BSM 10 in a message queue communication method.

The TMN interworking unit 37 is constituted by a socket input / output device 38 that transmits and receives data in cooperation with the TMN agent 20 in a socket communication method.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a message conversion method between a TMN and a BSM according to the present invention.

As shown therein, an interface message defining step (ST11) for defining an interface message for mapping management data collected by the BSM 10 to management data that can be recognized by the TMN agent 20; An interworking preparation step (ST12-ST15) for initializing the message queue input / output device 36 for interworking with the BSM 10 and establishing a connection for the socket input / output device 38 for interworking with the TMN agent 20; After performing the interworking preparation steps ST12-ST15, if the message queue input / output device 36 is inspected and there is management data transmitted from the BSM 10, the message queue input / output device 36 exists. After the management data is fetched from the device 36 and converted into an interface message so that the TMN agent 20 can recognize it, the message interface steps ST17-ST18 are transmitted to the TMN agent 20. .

In the interworking preparation steps ST12-ST15, if initialization of the message queue input / output device 36 is not successfully performed, an error is processed and the process ends.

In addition, in the interworking preparation step (ST12-ST15), if the connection setting of the socket input and output device 38 is not successfully performed, the error is processed and ends.

The operation of the message conversion device between the TMS system and the control station manager (BSM) according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, in order to interface management data between the BSM 10 and the TMN agent 20, a message definition commonly recognized by the TMN agent 20 and the message converter 30 is required. Therefore, the management data to be collected by the TMN agent 20 is formalized to define an interface message, which is one unified message structure, and the interface message is used by the TMN agent 20 and the message converter 30 (ST11). .

As shown in [Table 1], this interface message is composed of a header (msgHeader) storing distinguishable information of types of management data and a body (msgBody) storing information of actual management data.

typedef struct {MsgHeaderS msgHeader; MsgBody msgBody;} Mb12MapMsgS;

And as shown in Table 2, the header indicates whether management data is management data for alarm, management data for operation failure, management data for status change, or statistics. CodeId indicating the type of higher concept, such as whether the management data is for the management data or system configuration (config), and a subcode (subcodeId) indicating the more specific type of the lower concept among the corresponding types of the higher concept. do. That is, information indicating that the management data is management data for an alarm is recorded in the code, and information indicating that the management data for a certain alarm is specifically recorded in the subcode.

/ * common message header * / typedef struct {CodeIdTypeE codeId; SubCodeIdTypeE subCodeId;} MsgHeaderS;

As shown in Table 3, the body records actual management data corresponding to the type of management data recorded in the header in an interface message commonly recognized by the message converter 30 and the TMN agent 20. .

/ * MBL-> Map message body ... * / typedef union {AlarmMsgS alarmMsg; / * Content of management data for the alarm * / FaultMsgS faultMsg; / * Content of management data about operation failure * / StatusMsgs statusMsg; / * Content of management data about status change * / StatisticMsgS statisticMsg; / * Administrative data content for statistics * / ConfigMsgS stat configMsg; / * Content of management data about system configuration * /} MsgBody;

This interface message is recorded by listing a plurality of management data.

Thereafter, the central processing unit 31 of the message converter 30 initializes the message queue input / output device 36 of the control station manager interworking unit 35 for interworking with the BSM 10. Since the BSM 10 transmits and receives data by the message queue communication method, the control station manager interworking unit 35 of the message converter 30 is implemented as the message queue input / output device 36. Thus, the central processing unit 31 initializes the message queue input / output device 36 to establish a data communication path with the BSM 10 (ST12). If an error occurs during the initialization of the message queue input / output device 36, the error is processed and the message conversion operation is terminated (ST13).

When the message converter 30 successfully establishes a data communication path with the BSM 10, the CPU 31 controls the socket input / output device 38 of the TMN interworking unit 37 to establish the connection of the socket. . At this time, if the socket connection is not established, the CPU 31 performs error processing and terminates the message conversion operation (ST14-ST15).

Meanwhile, the BSM 10 of the PCS directly accesses the PCS sub-system to manage the PCS, collects management data periodically, and manages the PCS using the collected management data. However, in order for the TMN agent 20 to use the management data collected by the BSM 10, the BSM 10 transmits the management data collected by the message queue communication method through a data path established with the message converter 30. do.

Then, when the data communication path between the message converter 30 and the BSM 10 is set, and the data communication path between the message converter 30 and the TMN agent 20 is established, the CPU 31 sends a message queue input / output device. In step 36, it is checked whether management data exists (ST16). If management data exists in the message queue I / O device 36 as a result of the check, the CPU 31 withdraws this management data from the message queue I / O device 36 and converts the extracted management data into an interface message (ST17). ).

The CPU 31 then transmits this interface message to the socket I / O device 38, and the socket I / O device 38 transmits this interface message to the TMN agent 20 (ST18).

The TMN agent 20 then manages the PCS using this interface message.

In this way, the TMN agent 20 formalizes and defines the management data necessary for managing the PCS into an interface message, and converts the management data of the PCS collected from the BSM of the PCS into an interface message, so that the BSM of the PCS converts the management data of the PCS. The TMN agent utilizes the management data collected from the BSM of the PCS without the need to duplicate the collecting operation in the TMN agent, thereby facilitating a method of collecting management data of the TMN agent.

The present invention can be applied to manage the DCS by using the management data collected in the BSM of the DCS in the TMN agent even when the TMN system manages the DCS as well as the PCS.

As described above, the apparatus and method for converting messages between a communication management network (TMN) system and a control station manager (BSM) according to the present invention,

By defining all the management data necessary for managing the mobile communication system such as DCS and PCS in the TMN agent as an interface message, the management data collected from the control station manager of the mobile communication system is recognized as the management data that can be recognized by the TMN agent. It has the effect of being able to convert.

In addition, by converting the management data collected by the control station manager of the mobile communication system so that the TMN agent can recognize, the TMN agent accesses the control station manager without having to collect necessary management data by directly interworking with the subsystem of the mobile communication system. Therefore, there is an effect that can be used by converting the management data collected by the control station manager.

Thus, rather than directly accessing the sub-system of the mobile communication system to collect the necessary management data, access to the control station manager to collect the management data, it is also possible to simply configure the management data collection device of the TMN agent.

By using the management data collection program of the control station manager, which is already stabilized and commercialized, for the mobile communication system management data collection operation of the TMN agent, the management data collection program of the control station manager is recycled and the management data collection operation of the TMN agent is performed. It also stabilizes and increases reliability.

Claims (6)

An apparatus for collecting management data of a mobile communication system having a communication comprehensive management network system agent (TMN Agent) to manage a mobile communication system in a communication comprehensive management network (TMN) system, A control station manager interworking unit for interworking with a control station manager (BSM) that collects management data of the mobile communication system, and transmitting management data transmitted from the control station manager to the central processing unit; A main memory for storing a program for converting management data collected by the control station manager into management data recognizable by the TMN agent; A central processing unit for executing a program stored in the main memory and converting management data collected by the control station manager into management data recognizable by a TMN agent; And a TMN interworking unit for transmitting the management data converted from the central processing unit to the TMN agent. The method of claim 1, wherein the control station manager linkage unit, And a message queue input / output device for transmitting and receiving data in association with the BSM in a message queue communication method. The method of claim 1, wherein the TMN interlocking unit, And a socket input / output device configured to transmit / receive data by interworking with the TMN agent in a socket communication method. What is claimed is: 1. A method of collecting management data of a mobile communication system for managing a mobile communication system in a communication integrated management network (TMN) system. An interface message defining step of defining an interface message for mapping management data collected by a control station manager (BSM) of the mobile communication system to management data recognizable by the TMN; An interworking preparation step of initializing the control station manager interworking unit for interworking with the control station manager (BSM), driving the TMN interworking unit for interworking with the TMN agent, and establishing a data communication path between the control station manager and the TMN agent; After performing the interworking preparation step, when the control station manager interworking unit is inspected and the management data transmitted from the BSM exists in the control station manager interworking unit, the management data is retrieved from the control station manager interworking unit and recognized by the TMN agent. And a message interface step of converting the interface message to the TMN agent after converting the interface message to the interface message. The method of claim 4, wherein the interface message, A message conversion method between a TMS system and a control station manager (BSM), comprising a header in which information indicating the type of management data is recorded, and a body in which an actual management message is recorded. The method of claim 5, wherein the header, A code indicating a type of management operation and a sub code indicating which item is a subdivided item of the management operation of the type recorded in the code. How to convert messages between BSMs.