KR100422154B1 - A decision method of alarm signal priority for communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to alarm signal management that occurs when a communication device or a transmission device performs abnormal operations, and more particularly, to a method for facilitating the prioritization and addition and deletion of alarm signals. CLAIMS 1. A method for determining an alarm signal priority; An investigation process for examining all possible obstacles in the communication equipment; A configuration process of inputting each higher fault into a configuration frame for all the investigated faults; A process of creating a down frame and a first frame to align the priorities for each obstacle with respect to each input and generated configuration frame; An alarm process of notifying an alarm due to a failure by using a created configuration frame, a down frame, and a first frame, releasing a corresponding lower alarm, and repeatedly processing a failure in a next sequence; If it continues, it is returned to the investigation process if it continues, and if it does not continue, the process consists of a continuation process. It is easy and can reduce the development time, and it is easy to modify, change, and add fault information, and to increase the reliability because it automatically records the sub-disability information.

Description

A priority method of alarm signal of communication equipment {A DECISION METHOD OF ALARM SIGNAL PRIORITY FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to alarm signal management that occurs when a communication device or a transmission device performs abnormal operation, and more particularly, to a method for easily prioritizing, adding, and deleting alarm signals.

When a trouble occurs in the transmission equipment or communication equipment that is subscribed to by a large number of users, there is a problem that multiple subscribed users cannot communicate at the same time. In the event of such a failure, the operator is notified of the failure as an alarm signal to quickly identify the failure situation and follow up.

As described above, transmission or communication equipment has a wide variety of failures, and each failure has a priority that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. Therefore, when multiple failures occur at the same time, an alarm signal starts with the highest priority. To occur.

After the above-mentioned high priority alarm signal has been processed or confirmed, a warning signal due to the next higher priority error is generated.

Hereinafter, a method for determining the priority of a communication equipment alarm signal according to the prior art will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Attached to explain the prior art, Figure 1 is a flow chart of the prior art method for determining the alarm signal of the communication equipment.

Referring to the attached Figure 1, the prior art alarm signal priority determination method of the communication device, the first step (S10) to investigate and set the priority of all possible failures in the communication system,

A second step (S20) of determining whether an alarm has occurred due to the highest failure of the communication system;

A third step (S30) of notifying the operator of the status of the generated alarm through the operation terminal in the case of the highest alarm due to the highest failure of the current situation as determined in the second step (S20);

A fourth step (S40) for determining whether there is a lower obstacle of the alarm notified in the third step (S30),

A fifth step (S50) of determining whether an alarm due to the corresponding lower obstacle is occurring when it is determined in the fourth step (S40),

A sixth step (S60) of releasing the alarm occurrence of the corresponding failure when there is a lower obstacle generating the alarm as determined in the fifth step (S50);

A seventh step S70 of determining whether there is another lower obstacle and returning to the fifth step S50 when there is another lower obstacle;

If there is no alarm caused by the highest level of failure as determined in the second step (S20) or if there is no lower level of failure as determined in the fourth step (S40) and the seventh step (S70), the alarm due to the next step of failure An eighth step S80 of determining whether

In the case where an alarm occurs due to a failure in the next step as a result of the determination, the control unit returns to the second step S20, and if the alarm does not occur as a result of the determination, it is determined whether to continue and the second step ( In the case of returning to S20 and not continuing, the ninth step S90 ends.

Hereinafter, a method for determining a communication equipment alarm signal priority according to the prior art having the above configuration will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Communication equipment or transmission equipment processes the signals of multiple subscribers and sets up the corresponding paths by switching, and then transmits the corresponding communication signals by using optical lines or coaxial cable lines. There are many kinds of faults such as faults and channel noise deterioration, clock signal faults, etc., and each fault is triggered as soon as each fault occurs.

If the failures caused by the various types as described above occur at the same time, it should be generated from the alarm due to the failure of the most important to be confirmed to the operator.

In order to function as described above, conventionally, all kinds of failures that may occur in the corresponding communication system are examined, and their priorities are determined and set (S10).

According to the order of the faults set as described above, it is determined whether the highest fault occurs and the corresponding alarm signal is generated (S20). It is determined whether an alarm signal has been generated (S80), and if an alarm signal due to a failure of the next sequence is generated, it is fed back to the second step (S20) to proceed with the case where an alarm signal is generated.

If the alarm signal due to the failure in the next step does not occur in the eighth step (S80), it is determined whether to continue, and if it continues, the feedback is returned to the second step (S20). .

In the second step (S20), when a failure signal due to the highest failure in the current state occurs, the operator is notified so that the operator can check the generated alarm signal (S30), and determines whether there is a lower failure (S40) If there is no lower level fault, the process proceeds to the eighth step S80. If there is a lower level fault, it is determined whether the lower level alarm is occurring (S50), and if the lower level alarm is occurring, the generated low level alarm is released. (S60).

It is determined whether an alarm signal caused by a continuous lower fault or another lower fault of the released lower alarm signal is generated as described above, and if a fault occurs, the feedback is returned to the fifth step S50. Proceed to step S80.

Therefore, an alarm signal is generated according to the priority of various obstacles occurring in the communication device or the transmission device, and the operator can take quick follow-up by checking the alarm signal.

However, the prior art as described above is a method of determining the priority by investigating all possible alarms in advance, and setting the determined priority by a program directly.

Therefore, when adding, deleting, or correcting an alert, all coding parts of the corresponding program must be directly modified, thereby reducing the flexibility of development.

In addition, while the development of the alarm program due to the disturbance takes a lot of time, there was a problem that the corresponding cost is associated with the development,

The present invention provides a method for easily adding, deleting, and correcting a fault by recording the priority of the fault and the fault of the fault in each fault information for each fault that may occur in a communication device or a transmission device. The purpose is to provide.

The present invention has been made in order to achieve the above object, in the alarm signal priority determination method occurring in the communication equipment; An investigation process for examining all possible obstacles in the communication equipment; A configuration process for inputting each upper disorder into a configuration frame for all the disorders examined; A process of creating a down frame and a first frame to align the priorities for each obstacle with respect to each of the created configuration frames; An alarm process for notifying an alarm due to a failure by using a configuration frame, a down frame, and a first frame created in the above process, releasing a corresponding lower alarm, and repeatedly processing if there is a failure in the next sequence; It is characterized by consisting of a continuous process of returning to the investigation process when the determination is continued or not and continuing if the process continues.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for determining an alarm signal priority of a communication device according to the prior art;

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for determining an alarm signal priority of a communication device according to the present invention.

3 is a frame configuration diagram of each obstacle according to the present invention,

4 is a detailed flowchart of the treatment process according to the present invention;

5 is a detailed flowchart of the alarm process according to the present invention.

** Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawing **

10: configuration frame 20: down frame

30: first frame

Hereinafter, an alarm signal priority determination method of a communication device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for determining an alarm signal priority of communication equipment according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a frame diagram of each obstacle according to the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a detailed flowchart of the alarm process according to the present invention.

2, 4 and 5, the alarm signal priority determination method of the communication device according to the present invention, an alarm signal generated by various troubles of the communication device or the transmission device (Alarm Signal) In the method of determining the priority of

An investigation process (S100) for investigating all kinds of obstacles that may occur in the communication device or the transmission device;

A configuration process (S200) of creating and inputting each of the higher failures to a configuration frame (Configuration Data Frame) 10 for all the failures investigated in the investigation process (S100);

Similarly, when the servo amplifier 510 receives the input of the input / output unit 520 and actually starts the motor, as shown in FIG. 20 (b), the D1 data is transmitted from the input / output unit 520 and the master (control unit). Receive processing and start signal preparation, data transmission, and a series of processing such as start signal reception in the servo amplifier 510 are required, and after the input / output unit 520 inputs DI (starting signal), approximately There is 4 times delay and bad response.

By using the configuration frame 10, the down frame 20 and the first frame 30 created in the process (S200, S300) to notify the operator of the alarm (Tarm) caused by the trouble (trouble) of the communication equipment and the lower Disabling the alarm and repeat the process if there is a failure of the next sequence, the failure step (S410) to determine whether the highest failure occurs in the communication equipment; A generation step (S420) of generating and notifying a corresponding alarm when a highest trouble occurs in the failure step S410; A counting determination step (S430) of determining whether a down alarm count (DownAlm_cnt) field value of the fault configuration frame 10 generating the alert is 0; If it is determined in the counting step (S430) and non-zero, down-reading step (S440) in order to read the lower fault recorded in the down frame of the trouble (Trouble) in which the alarm occurs; A low alarm step (S450) of determining whether an alarm is generated in a low fault read in the down read step (S440); A sub-release step (S460) of releasing the corresponding alarm when the sub-alarm due to the sub-disorder is determined in the sub-alarm step (S450); A down determination step (S470) of determining whether there is an unread lower obstacle in the down frame (20) of the failure in which the alarm has occurred, and feeding back to the down reading step (S440) if there is an unread lower failure; If it is determined in the failure step (S410) is not the highest failure, or in the determination step (S430) determines the down alarm count value to 0, or if it is determined that there is no lower failure unread in the down determination step (S470), It is determined whether there is a failure according to the priority, and if there is a failure according to the next priority, it is fed back to the failure step (S410), and if there is no failure due to the next priority, the next priority step is performed (S480). Alarm process (S400),

If it is determined whether to continue the above process is to continue the feedback (Feedback) to the investigation process (S100), if not to continue consists of a continuous process (S500) to end.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a method for determining an alarm signal priority of a communication device according to the present invention having the above configuration will be described in detail.

The communication equipment or the transmission equipment is used by a plurality of subscribers at the same time, when a trouble occurs and the operation of the equipment is interrupted, there is a problem that a plurality of subscribers cannot communicate at the same time, the maintenance is very important.

There are many kinds of failures that can occur in such communication equipment. For example, LOS (Loss Of Signal) generated when communication line is not available due to disconnection of transmission line or critical failure in the circuit part. For example, there is a LOF (Loss Of Frame) that occurs when the transmission line is connected but fails to synchronize the transmitted signal due to noise or instability of signal processing.

Some of the above-mentioned obstacles are expected, but there are also obstacles that cannot be predicted as they occur while operating communication equipment.

The communication equipment designer investigates all obstacles that can be predicted in advance (S100), and creates a configuration data frame (Configuration Data Frame) 10 as shown in FIG. 3 for all the failures investigated as described above (S200).

The structure of the command to create the configuration frame 10 as described above is as follows.

typedef struct CONFIG_DATA CONFIGDATA;

struct CONGIG_DATA {

Alarm_ID;

UpAlm [n];

UpAlm_cnt;

DownAlm_cnt;

Start;

......;

};

CONFIGDATA SystemAlarm [Total_Alarm];

The configuration frame 10 includes an index field (i) for searching, an alarm ID field (Alarm_ID) for recording or inputting a unique number (ID) of an alarm, and a unique number corresponding to upper alarms of the current alarm ( N upper alarm fields (UpAlm_n) for recording or entering IDs, upper alarm coefficient fields (UpAlm_cnt) for recording or entering numbers of upper alarms, and lower alarm coefficient fields (DownAlm_cnt) for recording or entering numbers of lower alarms. ), A 1-bit start field indicating the highest alarm state, and a spare other field.

In more detail, in the first design of the communication equipment, all expected failures are investigated, the priority of the investigated failures is determined, and recorded in the configuration frame 10 having the above configuration.

That is, the unique number of a specific fault is recorded in the i field and the Alarm_ID field, all faults that are expected to be higher faults of the fault are recorded in the UpAlm_n field, the number or number of upper faults is recorded in the UpAlm_cnt field, and the low fault alarm. The field to record the number of is initialized to the value of 0. If the highest level of disability that needs to be handled first, the value of 1 is recorded. Otherwise, the value of 0 is recorded in the Start field.

When the configuration of the configuration frame 10 for all the failures predicted by the configuration process (S200) as described above is completed, a process for sorting the priorities for each failure is performed (S300).

The process S300 will be described in more detail with reference to the attached FIG. 4. In order to read the configuration frame 10 due to the failure recorded by the configuration process S200 in order (S310), the Start field Check to see if the upper disorder (S320).

In the case of the upper disorder, the corresponding unique number (ID) of the upper disorder is recorded in the i field and the FirstAlm field constituting the first alarm data frame 30 of FIG. 3, respectively (S330).

As described above, the instruction structure for recording the first frame 30 is as follows.

typedef struct FIRST_DATA FIRSTDATA;

struct FIRST_DATA {

FirstAlm;

};

FIRSTDATA FirstData [Total_Alarm];

After the recording as described above, it is determined whether the failure frame read in the reading step (S310) is the last failure frame (S360), and if it is not the last failure frame, it is fed back to the reading step (S310) to the next sequence. Reads a fault frame.

If it is determined that the start field of the disabled frame read in step S310 is not an upper disorder, that is, it is determined to be a lower disorder (S320), the value of the DownAlm_cnt field of the configuration frame 10 due to the upper disorder is increased by one (S340). The lower fault unique number is recorded in a down alarm data frame 20 due to an upper fault (S350).

As described above, the instruction structure for recording the down frame 20 is as follows.

typedef struct DOWN_DATA DOWNDATA;

struct DOWN_DATA {

DownAlm [DownAlm_MAX];

};

DOWNDATA DownData [Total_Alarm];

Again, it is determined whether or not the read failure frame is the last failure frame (S360), and if not the last failure frame, the feedback is repeated to the read operation (S310), and the above steps are repeated.

In more detail, the uppermost fault is recorded in the first frame 30 of the corresponding fault frame, and the lower fault is recorded in the down frame 20 and simultaneously increased by 1 in the DownAlm_cnt field of the configuration frame 10. By checking the DownAlm_cnt field, it is possible to confirm how many sub-disabilities or sub-alarms of the corresponding disorder are, and the type of the sub-disorders may be checked by searching the down frame 20.

Therefore, when a fault is deleted, added, or corrected, the configuration frame 10 due to the fault may be correctly created, and the down frame 20 and the first frame 30 may be configured.

By using the obstacle frame recorded as above, the operator is notified of the alarm caused by the trouble generated by the communication equipment, and the alarm signal generated by the corresponding lower alarm is released. Repeated processing (S400).

The alarm process S400 will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying FIG. 5, by reading the configuration frame 10 of a failure frame in sequence among a plurality of failure frames, and confirming a corresponding Start field, It is determined in the main controller of the communication equipment whether the highest level of failure that needs to be handled urgently (S410).

As a result of the determination (S410), in the case of the highest level of handicapped, by generating an alarm signal through the corresponding device that can be checked by the operator, to notify the status of the failure (S420), to determine whether there is a low or low alarm, DownAlm_cnt Check whether the value of field is 0 or not.

As a result of the check, if the value of the DownAlm_cnt field is not 0 and the corresponding value is recorded, the lower faults are read in the order recorded in the down frame 20 (S440), and it is determined whether the lower fault is generating an alarm. (S450).

As a result of the determination (S450), if the lower alarm is generated, the lower alarm is released, and the reason for canceling the lower alarm as described above is that the upper alarm to be processed as soon as the occurrence of the lower alarm is generated. Is meaningless.

When the lower alarm is released as described above (S460), it is determined whether there is another unread or lower alarm in the down frame 20 (S470), and if there is another lower alarm that has not been read yet, the down-reading step ( Feedback to S440).

If it is determined in the failure step (S410) to determine the highest failure, and determines that there is a higher failure by the next priority (S480), if there is a higher failure by the next priority step (S410) The process as described above is repeated, and if not, it is determined whether to continue (S500), and if it continues, the feedback is resumed from the fault step (S410) and continues. If not, exit.

Therefore, the above configuration records the information related to the priority of the fault in a field allocated to the frame, so that it is easy to add, delete and correct the fault information, and it takes less time and is flexible in the development of the program. There is this.

In addition, since the lower fault information is automatically recorded, there is no need to record directly, there is an advantage that can be easily ported to other equipment.

The present invention of the configuration described above, it is possible to easily determine the priority for the disturbances that may occur in the communication equipment and at the same time easy to develop and has the effect of reducing the development time.

In addition, it is easy to modify, change and add the failure information, and to automatically record the sub-disability information without having to record one by one, there is an effect of increasing reliability and high portability that can be applied to other equipment.

Claims (3)

In the method of determining the priority of the alarm signal generated in the communication equipment, An investigation process that investigates all types of failures that may occur in communication equipment, A configuration process of creating each of the above-mentioned faults by inputting each higher fault into a configuration frame; A process of creating a down frame and a first frame to align the priority of each obstacle with respect to the created configuration frame; An alarm process for notifying an alarm due to a failure by using the configuration frame, a down frame, and a first frame, releasing a corresponding lower alarm, and repeatedly processing a failure in a next sequence; Determining whether to continue the alarm process, and if continued, returns to the investigation process, and if not, the alarm signal priority determining method of the communication equipment. The method of claim 1, wherein the process is, A reading step of sequentially reading the configuration frames caused by the failures; A higher judging step of judging whether the disability frame read by the above step is a higher disability; A first input step of inputting a unique number of the read failure in the index and alert fields of the first frame, if the read failure frame is determined to be a high failure; A count value increasing step of increasing a value of a down alarm count field of a higher failure configuration frame when the failure frame read in the higher determination step is not an upper failure; A down input step of inputting a unique number of the current failure in the down frame of the higher failure read in the step; It is determined that the failure read in the step is a failure frame of the last order, if not the failure frame of the last order is fed back to the reading step, the last frame is composed of the last step of the end How to Prioritize Alarm Signals. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarm process, A failure stage that determines whether the highest failure occurred, A generation step of generating and notifying a corresponding alarm if the highest failure occurs as determined in the failure step; A coefficient determination step of determining whether a value of a down alarm count field of a fault configuration frame that has generated the alarm is 0; A non-reading step of sequentially reading the lower faults recorded in the down frame of the fault in which the alarm occurred, if it is determined by the counting step; A lower alarm step of determining whether an alarm is occurring in the lower fault read above; A sub-release step of releasing the corresponding alarm when the sub-alarm due to the sub-disorder is determined by the sub-alarm step; A down decision step of determining whether there is an unread sub-disability in the down frame of the failure where the alarm occurs, and returning to the down-reading step if there is an unread sub-disability; If it is determined that the failure is not the highest failure in the failure step, the counting step determines the value of the down alarm count to 0, or if there is no lower failure unread in the down determination step, it is determined whether there is a failure according to the next priority , If there is a failure according to the next priority is returned to the fault level, if there is no failure by the next priority, the alarm signal priority determination method of the communication equipment, characterized in that the configuration consists of the next step.