KR20000041903A - Method of reporting status information in communication network system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method of reporting status information in a communication network system is provided to enable the system operator to acknowledge and manage the status information in his communication network system in remote area by transmitting the information to the cellular phone with message service through mobile communication network. CONSTITUTION: A method of reporting status information in the communication network system comprises the steps of: through error sensing processor, detecting errors in the system(101) and extracting the system operator's phone number(102); transmitting the phone number with that information to information provider system(103); after editing the information and the phone number, sending to SMSC(SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE CENTER)(104); through SMSC, forming the information into message data and confirming the location of the proper cellular phone from home location register and connecting to the cellular phone by MSC(MOBILE SWITCH CENTER)(105); transmitting the information into the phone's display in case of successful connection(107); re-sending the information according to the algorithm in case of failing to connect the phone or send the message data.

Description

Notification method of status information of communication network system

The present invention relates to a method for managing a communication network system, and more particularly, a terminal in which an operator carries general status information of a communication network system that is connected to a network in operation as a text message service through a mobile communication network. The present invention relates to a method for notifying status information of a communication network system, which transmits to a network so that remote information can be grasped and managed by the remote network.

In general, a communication network is implemented as a single system in which subscriber devices, an exchange system, and a transmission facility are connected to each other. In order to stably operate and provide high quality communication service, maintenance and management of the system is very important.

Therefore, since various fault information generated in the network system connected to the network is displayed on the screen of the network system operator, the operator grasps the state of the operating network system from the displayed information and then performs maintenance.

In order to enable the operator of the network system to check the status of the network system in operation when a specific failure occurs without monitoring the screen for 24 hours, an alarm device for generating an audible and visual alarm may be used. As can be seen in Figure 1, when a failure occurs during the operation of the network system (1) is connected through a link (3) physically connected to the network system 1 is connected to the network type and grade of the failure In accordance with the corresponding lamp is turned on and consists of an alarm panel (2) instructing the operator of the communication network system 1 as a visible alarm.

In the above, the alarm panel 2 is located in the vicinity of the operating network system 1 or in an area where the operator can always monitor, and if an error is detected in the alarm panel 2, it is sent to the operator of the network system 1. Alarm sound sending means for sending a predetermined alarm sound may be provided to notify by an audible alarm.

The operation of notifying status information generated during operation in the conventional communication network system made as described above is as follows.

When a network system 1 connecting a network executes a fast and stable call service and a failure occurs in which a stable service cannot be provided in any part, the network system 1 determines the type and grade of the generated failure. Information about it is then sent to the alert panel 2 side via a physically connected link 3.

The alarm panel 2 lights the corresponding lamp at the same time as the failure information received through the physical link 3, and the alarm is activated to send a predetermined alarm sound corresponding to the failure information to the operator of the communication network system 1. It is notified that a predetermined failure has occurred in any part of the network system 1.

In addition, there is a method of transmitting a text message to the operator's mobile terminal if a failure occurs in the SMSC system itself in a specific SMSC (Short Message Service Center) in a different way.

However, the above method can only know whether the SMSC has a failure, there is a problem that the contents of the failure and other states are unknown, in order to detect the failure through the alarm panel in the network system, the operator of the network system is always There is a problem in that the operator's behavior is limited because the fault can only be recognized when it resides in the vicinity. If the system operator is far from the alarm panel, there is a problem that the fault cannot be recognized.

In addition, when SMSC notifies the failure information by sending a text message, the information on the failure is notified to the mobile communication terminal of a specific operator registered only when an error occurs in the processor running in the SMSC system. There was a problem that the status of the device, the type of failure occurred and the fact of recovery were not recognized.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned general problems, and an object thereof is to provide information on whether a failure of the entire system constituting the communication network system, recovery of the failure, and performance or state of the system in a predetermined form. By formatting and notifying the mobile communication terminal side carried by the operator in real time through a text message service through the mobile communication network, the operator of the system can always monitor the status of the communication network system.

1 is a configuration diagram of a state information display apparatus of a conventional communication network system,

2 is a configuration diagram of a state information notification device of a communication network system according to the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a status information notification procedure of a network management target system using a text message service of a mobile communication network in the present invention of FIG.

4 is a flow chart showing a failure notification procedure of the SMSC system in the present invention of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a self status information notification procedure of an SMSC system in the present invention of FIG. 2.

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

10: SMSC 11a-11c: Information Provider System

12: home location register 13: MSC

14: base station control system 15: base station

16: mobile communication terminal

The present invention for achieving the object as described above, in the status notification method of the communication network system, the information provider system with the phone number of the operator terminal set in the table of the memory means of the status information of the system occurring in the network system in operation Transmitting to the SMSC by processing a predetermined message in the form of a predetermined message;

The SMSC forms disability information received from the information provider system as text message data, confirms the location information of the mobile communication terminal having the extracted telephone number from a home location register, and then executes the mobile communication of the operator through the MSC. Connecting a call with the terminal;

When the call is connected to the operator's mobile communication terminal in the process, transmitting the fault information formed by the text message data and displaying the information on the operator's mobile communication terminal;

The method may include retransmitting the detected failure information according to the retransmission algorithm when the call connection with the operator terminal is not normally performed or when the text message data is not normally transmitted.

Hereinafter, referring to FIGS. 2 to 5 of the accompanying drawings, information on fault information generated in a communication network system, information on whether the fault is recovered, system performance, and status is transmitted to a mobile communication terminal carried by an operator. The operation is as follows.

When a subscriber device, an exchange system, a transmission facility, and the like are interconnected and implemented as a single system, and a predetermined failure set by an operator occurs at an arbitrary part while the communication network system connected to the network is operating (S101) ), The higher processor accesses the memory means, extracts one or more telephone number of the operator terminal 16 set in the table, and transmits the detected telephone number to the information provider system 11a-11c with the detected failure information (S103).

The information provider system 11a-11c analyzes the received fault information, detects the type of the fault, the position of the fault, and the like, and then processes it into a predetermined form to search for an Ethernet communication network or the telephone number of the detected operator terminal 16. It transmits to the SMSC (10) side in charge of the transmission of the text message through the X.25 interface, serial interface (S104).

The SMSC 10 detects the telephone number of the operator terminal 16 from the information received through the interface in the information provider system 11a-11c, and then stores the position information of the operator terminal 16 in the home location register (Home). Location Register: 12) (S106).

If the location information of the operator terminal 16 is determined in the above, the SMSC 10 processes the failure information received from the information provider system 11a-11c in the form of a text message transmission, and then MSC (Mobile Switching Center: 13) The side requests the call connection with the operator terminal 16 determined the location information (S107).

The MSC 13 occupies any channel allocated for the call connection with the operator terminal 16 according to the call connection request through switching, and then controls the base station to control the text message data for the call signal and the failure information through the occupied channel. Upon application to the system 14, the base station control system 14 processes the fault information formed by the call signal and the text message data for the occupied channel into a predetermined form and transmits the information to the base station 15 via the E1 / T1 interface. Is authorized.

At this time, the base station 15 processes the applied data information in a radio frequency and transmits it by airwaves and transmits the corresponding text message data to the operator terminal 16 located in an arbitrary region (S108).

The operator's terminal 16, which has received text message data on various failure information generated in the operating system as described above, displays the received failure information of the system through the LCD display window so that the operator of the system can recognize it. S110).

As described above, after transmitting the text message of the failure information to the operator terminal 16 located in an arbitrary region as described above, it is determined whether the text message is successfully transmitted (S109). If it is determined that the text message transmission operation of the failure information is terminated, and it is determined that the transmission of the text message is not successful, the SMSC 10 has a delay of a predetermined time according to the set retransmission algorithm (S111) and occupies the allocated channel. Attempt to resend the fault information text message.

In the above description, the text message transmission of the failure information has been described. However, when the operator of the network management system sets the performance, status information, and other conditions of the system, each corresponding information is processed as text message data in the same manner as described above. It is transmitted to the terminal side which the operator carries.

In addition, the operation of the SMSC's own failure detection notification in charge of the text message service is as follows.

As described above, when a failure of the SMSC 10 in charge of text message service occurs and is detected by a higher processor while the communication network system is operating, the failure detection upper processor analyzes the type of failure and the cause of the failure. (S201).

At this time, if a failure occurs in the SMSC 10, the text message service cannot be normally provided. Therefore, the upper processor detecting the failure accesses a table of memory means in which a telephone number of an operator terminal is set, thereby accessing one or more operators. The terminal 16 extracts the telephone number (S202).

Subsequently, the higher level processor detecting a failure detects the position information of the operator terminal 16 with respect to the extracted telephone number from the home location register 12 (S203), and the position of the operator terminal 16 with respect to the extracted telephone number. It is determined whether is detected (S204).

When the location information of the extracted operator terminal 16 is detected, the upper processor forms a text message on the detected failure information, that is, the type of failure, the cause of the failure, etc., and then transmits it to the MSC 13. (S205).

Upon receiving the text message, the MSC 13 occupies the corresponding channel according to the required signal and transmits the text message data formed to the operator terminal 16 through the relay between the base station control system 14 and the base station 15. It transmits to (16) (S206).

At this time, the operator terminal 16 receiving the text message data displays a message such as the type of the received failure and the cause of the failure on the LCD display window so that the system operator can recognize the generated failure information.

Subsequently, the higher processor transmitting the text message data for the failure information determines whether the transmission of the text message data is normally performed from the received information (S207). To exit.

When the occurrence of a failure in the SMSC 10 is detected as a text message data to the operator terminal 16 has been described for the notification of the occurrence of the failure and the type and cause of the failure occurred, but the generated failure is recovered Is handled by the operation as described above.

In addition, the operation of transmitting the status information of the system to the operator terminal in addition to the failure of the SMSC itself processing the text message service data is as follows.

In order to allow the operator to check the operation status information of the communication network system managed by the mobile terminal 16 through his mobile terminal 16, an interrupt period for checking the operation status of the network system is set, and at the same time, a specific state to be checked is checked. When set, the upper processor monitoring the state information detects the overall state information of the system at each specific cycle of the specific state detected or set interrupt (S301) and transmits the information to the SMSC 10.

At this time, the SMSC 10 extracts one or more phone numbers of the operator terminal 16 set in the table by accessing the memory means (S302), and stores the location information of the terminal having the extracted phone number in the home location register 12. (S303).

If the location information of the operator terminal having the telephone number extracted in step S303 is not confirmed, the SMSC 10 continuously searches for the location information and, if the location information is confirmed, characterizes the status information of the system detected in the cycle of the corresponding interrupt. After the message data is formed, it is transmitted to the operator terminal having the telephone number extracted on the MSC 13 side.

At this time, when a call connection is made with the operator terminal 16 carried by the operator by the occupation of the channel by the MSC 13 and the relay between the base station control system 14 and the base station 15, the SMSC 10 sends a text message data. The state information of the system formed as is transmitted to the operator terminal 16 through the occupied channel (S306).

At this time, the operator terminal 16 receiving the text message data displays the received text message service information on its LCD window to inform the operator of the current system status.

After the SMSC 10 transmits the text message data, it is determined whether the normal transmission has been performed (S307). If it is determined that the normal transmission is completed, the operation for the text message transmission is terminated, and normal transmission is not performed. If it is determined not to analyze the cause of the normal transmission through the retransmission algorithm and then request the call connection again via the SMSC (10) to execute the text message transmission operation of the detected status information again (S309).

In the above description, the operation information is transmitted to one operator terminal regarding the status information of the operating system, whether a failure occurs, the cause of the failure, and whether the failure has been recovered. However, the operator terminal registered in the table of the memory means If there are several, the text message data can be transmitted for each operator terminal.

In addition, when the system operator located outside to check the operation state and failure of the communication network system that he manages through his terminal 16 is managed by his own terminal 16 After connecting with the system and transmitting the contracted code, the SMSC 10 analyzes the contracted code received through the channel occupied by the base station 15, the base station control system 14, and the MSC 13, and then transmits the contracted code to the contracted code. The corresponding information is formed as the text message data as described above, and then transmitted to the operator terminal 16 to check the status information of the system managed by the remote site.

As described above, the present invention allows the operator who manages the communication network system to monitor the status of the system anytime and anywhere by checking the text message information received at his terminal through the mobile communication network. Reliability is provided.

In addition, even a system that is not directly connected to the mobile communication network can transmit the system status according to a specific IP and a defined protocol for providing a text message service to the mobile communication terminal, and provide status information required by the operator of the communication network at a remote location. Verification can provide stability in management.

Claims (6)

In the status notification method of the communication network system, the system information generated in the communication network system in operation is transmitted to the information provider system along with the telephone number of the operator terminal set in the table of the memory unit, processed into a predetermined message form, and then SMSC. Transmitting to the side; The SMSC forms disability information received from the information provider system as text message data, confirms the location information of the mobile communication terminal having the extracted telephone number from a home location register, and then executes the mobile communication of the operator through the MSC. Connecting a call with the terminal; When the call is connected to the operator's mobile communication terminal in the process, transmitting the fault information formed by the text message data and displaying the information on the operator's mobile communication terminal; Re-transmitting the detected failure information according to the retransmission algorithm when the call connection with the operator terminal is not normally made or the transmission of the text message data is not normally made. Notification method. The method of claim 1, wherein the text message transmitted from the communication network system to the operator's mobile communication terminal side includes status information of the communication network system, failure information, performance of the system, and general information set by the operator. Method of notifying status information of communication network system. The mobile communication terminal of claim 1, wherein if a failure of an SMSC providing a text message service occurs and is detected by a higher processor in the SMSC, the higher processor forms the detected failure information as text message data. Extracting a telephone number to verify location information from a home location register; If the location of the operator mobile communication terminal is identified in the step, connecting a call between the network management system and the operator mobile communication terminal through an MSC, and transmitting the fault information formed by the text message to display on the operator terminal. A status information notification method of a communication network system, characterized in that. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein when an interrupt cycle is set for the operator of the network system to monitor the state of the non-faulting system, the upper processor generates an interrupt according to the set cycle to detect overall status information of the network system, and then text message through SMSC. Forming with data; Checking position information of an operator's mobile communication terminal from a home location register at an interrupt period for detecting status information of the network system; Connecting to an operator mobile communication terminal of the identified location through an MSC, and transmitting text message data, which is general status information of the communication system, to display on the operator's mobile communication terminal. How to notify status information. The communication network system according to claim 1, wherein an operator of the communication network system can receive the status information of the communication system as a text message by transmitting a code contracted to the communication system and a call through its mobile communication terminal. How to notify status information. The method of claim 1, wherein when a failure of the communication network system is detected by a higher processor, the higher processor extracts a plurality of telephone numbers of a set operator mobile communication terminal and transmits the failure information generated by a text message to each operator of the mobile communication terminal. A status information notification method of a communication network system, characterized in that for transmitting.