KR20020044675A - Apparatus method for simultaneous remote managing of multi transformation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An apparatus for simultaneously and remotely operating and managing a plurality of transmission equipments and a method therefor are provided to quickly grasp a fault generation position when generating a fault and effectively perform treatment by simultaneously monitoring/operating/controlling states of a plurality of transmission equipments using one GUI(Graphic User Interface) and a system software. CONSTITUTION: A remote management unit(41) communicates with an external remote NE(Network Element)(30). A port management unit(42) manages ports capable of log-in in the remote NE(30) through the remote management unit(41). An account management unit(43) certifies a user ID and password registered in an NE through the port management unit(42). A command processing unit(44) processes a command in the port management unit(42) and transmits a response result to the port management unit(42). A system software unit(45) monitors/operates/controls each NE according to the command of the command processing unit(44).

Description

Apparatus method for simultaneous remote managing of multi transformation device}

The present invention relates to an operation management apparatus and a method through a single graphical user interface of a multi-transmission device, and in particular, using a single graphical user interface (GUI) and system software to simultaneously control the status of multiple transmission devices. The present invention relates to an operation management apparatus and method through a single graphical user interface of a multi-transmission device that is suitable for quickly identifying a failure location and performing an effective response by monitoring, operating, and controlling the failure.

In general, the transmission equipment is necessary to perform data transmission, and in the case of the optical transmission equipment, a network element (NE) is used.

1 is a block diagram of a general transmission equipment.

Here, reference numeral 10 is a transmission device that is a Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) used as a large capacity WDM (wavelength division multiplexing), and 20 is an OAM / P (Operation, GUI that executes Administration, Management & Provision).

Thus, in the conventional transmission equipment 10, the operator using the equipment installed OAM & P equipment by installing a monitoring operation program called GUI on the PC. At this time, the GUI is used to log in to the device for security purposes, but this is a concept of connecting GUI and NE 1: 1.

However, it was inconvenient to monitor and operate multiple devices at the same time in a transmission device in which several devices are connected to form a network.

This concept was developed by introducing the remote login function of Unix, and the concept of logging in to monitor an arbitrary device in the GUI, and remotely logging in to another device to monitor and operate another device.

However, this too was not just operating multiple devices at the same time, but simply moving the monitoring point to use 1: 1 connection between the GUI and the device. It just added the ability to log in remotely to multiple devices.

The GUI environment used in the related art is to use a PC equipped with a GUI and Network Element (NE) A by connecting a serial or LAN cable as shown in FIG.

Figure 2 is a block diagram of a conventional operation management device of the transmission equipment.

Here, reference numeral 10 is a local NE, 11 is a remote management unit in the local NE 10, 12 is a command processing unit, and 13 is a system software unit.

Reference numeral 20 is a GUI and 30 is a remote NE.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation management method of a conventional transmission equipment.

As shown in this figure, if you want to monitor and operate NE A, log out of NE A and then log in as NE B, perform remote login from NE A to NE B, and perform monitoring operation of NE B (ST1 ~). ST4); If you want to monitor and operate NE B, log out from NE B and log in as NE A, perform remote login from NE B to NE A and perform monitoring operation of NE A (ST5 ~ ST8).

Referring to the drawings the operation of the prior art in detail as follows.

First, to operate NE A, you had to log in as NE A from the GUI and obtain permission to use the device.

At this time, the following method was used to monitor and operate NE B in the same network.

1) After logging in from NE A, log in as NE B again.

2) Remote login from NE A to NE B.

In both cases, a new login is made to NE B to monitor and manage NE B, and the existing GUI is disconnected from NE A.

To monitor and operate NE A again, use the following method.

1) After logging in from NE B, log in as NE A again.

2) Remote login at NE B.

In either case, if you log out of NE B to monitor NE A, you will not be able to monitor B until you log in to NE B again.

This is because the system software structure in the NE that receives and processes the instruction is configured as shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the system software configuration in the existing NE is composed of a structure that receives a command input through a GUI from a command processing module 12 and analyzes it.

At this time, when a remote login command comes in, first, a connection is established with the corresponding NE, and all subsequent commands are transferred from the command processor 12x to the remote manager 11 to transmit the command to the corresponding NE. .

When the user logs out of the remote NE 30, the commands input thereafter are transferred from the command processor 12 to the area of the system software 13 to process the corresponding commands.

However, even though the GUI environment according to the related art can remotely log in to a plurality of NEs, the GUI and the NEs are 1: 1 at a given time, so that the situation of multiple NEs cannot be monitored or controlled at the same time. There was a problem. Therefore, the operator must try to log in with a different NE every time, which causes the problem of inefficient processing of network management tasks.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object of the present invention is to monitor / operate / control the status of a plurality of transmission equipments at the same time using a single GUI and system software. The present invention provides an operation management apparatus and method through a single graphical user interface of a multi-transmission device capable of quickly identifying a location of occurrence and performing an effective response.

In order to achieve the above object, the operation management device through a single graphical user interface of the multi-transmission device according to an embodiment of the present invention,

A remote management unit for communicating with an external remote NE; A port manager configured to perform a management of the loginable ports in the GUI and to manage the loginable ports in the remote NE through the remote management; An account manager that performs verification of a user ID and a password registered to the NE through the port manager; A command processor for processing a command from the port manager and transmitting a response result to the port manager; The technical configuration is characterized in that it comprises a system software for monitoring / operating / controlling each actual NE according to the command of the command processing unit.

Operation management method through a single graphical user interface of the multi-transmission device according to an embodiment of the present invention to achieve the above object,

Logging into the desired NE and generating a dedicated GUI screen for the NE; A second step of performing a command for the corresponding NE after the first step through the generated dedicated GUI screen, and then determining whether information inquiry on another NE is necessary; When the information query for the other NE is required, the technical configuration is characterized by including a third step of logging in to the NE information inquired through the GUI initial screen and generating a dedicated GUI screen for the corresponding NE.

1 is a block diagram of a general transmission equipment,

2 is a block diagram of a conventional operation management device of the transmission equipment,

3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation management method of a conventional transmission equipment,

4 is a block diagram of an operation management apparatus through a single graphical user interface of the multi-transmission device according to the present invention,

5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation management method through a single graphic user interface of a multi-transmission device according to the present invention;

6 is a detailed flowchart of the third step in FIG.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a GUI screen using the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

20: GUI 30: Remote NE

40: local NE 41: remote management unit

42: port management unit 43: account management unit

44: command processor 45: system software

Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the present invention as described above, an operation management apparatus and a method through the single graphic user interface of the multi-transmission equipment with reference to the drawings as follows.

4 is a block diagram of an operation management apparatus through a single graphical user interface of a multi-transmission device according to the present invention.

As shown therein, the remote management unit 41 for communicating with an external remote NE (30); A port manager 42 which manages a log-in port in the GUI 20 and manages a log-in port in the remote NE 30 through the remote manager 41; An account manager 43 for performing verification on a user ID and a password registered to the NE through the port manager 42; A command processor 44 for processing a command from the port manager 42 and transmitting a response result to the port manager 42; And a system software unit 45 for monitoring, operating, and controlling actual NEs according to the command of the command processing unit 44.

The remote management unit 41 is responsible for the communication with the remote NE 30, which is an external NE, and if there is data to be sent to the outside, if the data is received, delivers it to the module in charge of actual communication, and the local NE from the outside. When receiving the message 40 as a destination, the data is transmitted from the communication module to transmit the data to the relevant module.

The port manager 42 manages a port that can be logged in as an NE. When the new login is performed, the port manager 42 checks the information on the target NE, and the account manager 43 when logging in to the local NE 40. Receives permission to use the NE to register the relevant information in the case of normal login, and if the login to the remote NE (30) transfers the receiving command to the remote management unit 41 responsible for communication between the NE, the command In the case of the response message received from the processing unit 44, the response message is transmitted to the individual who gave the command using the registered information.

In the above, the account manager 43 verifies the user ID and password registered in the NE, registers or deletes a new user, manages information on the same, and logs in from the port manager 42. When the message is received, the registered ID is compared with the password and the result is returned.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation management method through a single graphic user interface of a multi-transmission device according to the present invention.

As shown therein, a first step (ST11) (ST12) of logging into the desired NE and generating a dedicated GUI screen for the NE; A second step (ST13) (ST14) of performing a command for the corresponding NE after the first step through the generated dedicated GUI screen and then determining whether information on another NE is needed; If the information on the other NE needs to be searched, a third step (ST15) (ST16) of logging in to the information inquired NE through the GUI initial screen and generating a dedicated GUI screen for the corresponding NE is performed.

In the operation management method through a single graphical user interface of the multi-transmission device, it is determined whether the maximum number of NEs is exceeded after the third step, and if the maximum number of NEs is not exceeded, the second step is repeated and the maximum number of NEs is exceeded. If exceeded, and further comprising the fourth step of terminating.

6 is a detailed flowchart of the third step in FIG.

As shown in this, when logging in, the port manager 42 checks the information of users logging into the local NE through the account manager 43 to perform security verification, and the port manager 42 is a GUI to which login is directly connected. Registering whether it is input from or received from the remote management unit 41 (ST21) (ST22); Parsing a command received by the port manager 42 to determine which command (ST23) (ST24); If the command is a local command, transmitting the command to the system software unit 45 for command processing and receiving a response (ST25); If the command is a remote command, transmitting the command to the remote management unit 41 to process a command and receive a response (ST26); Determining to which port the response is a response (ST27); If the response is a response to the GUI port, transmitting a response to the GUI 20 (ST28); If the response is a response to the remote port, the method includes transmitting a response to the remote NE 30 (ST29).

The operation management apparatus and operation of the method through a single graphic user interface of the multi-transmission device according to the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, all the commands coming through the GUI 20 go through a port manager 42. In the case of login, the port manager 42 checks the information of the users logging into the local NE through the account manager 43 to verify the security, and is input from a directly connected GUI or the remote manager. It is registered whether it is received from the (Remote Manager) 41.

Thereafter, the port management unit 42 checks whether the command received through simple parsing is a local command or a command for a remote command. So, if it is a local command it is delivered to the system software unit 45, if it is a command for the remote it is delivered to the remote management unit (41). On the contrary, the port manager 42 receives the response message of the command processed by the system software 45 to determine which port the response is, and then delivers it to the GUI 20 or the remote manager 41.

In order to implement this, information on the destination NE to execute the command among the parameters of all the commands input to the port manager 42 in the GUI 20 or through the remote manager 42 must be included. Then, the port manager 42 can distinguish whether it is a command regarding a host or a command for a large country.

Meanwhile, in FIG. 4, the local NE 40 includes a remote manager 41, a port manager 42, an account manager 43, a command processor 44, and a system software 45.

The remote management unit 41 is responsible for communication with the remote NE 30, which is an external NE. In addition, if there is data to be sent to the outside, when the data is received, it is delivered to the module in charge of actual communication. When receiving a message to the local NE (40) as a destination from the outside receives the data from the communication module to transmit the data to the relevant module.

The port manager 42 manages a port that can be logged in as an NE as a main function. When the new login is performed, the information is checked in the target NE, and in the case of the login for the local NE 40, the account manager 43 checks the permission for the NE, and registers the corresponding information in the normal login. In the case of a login to the remote NE 30, an object that transmits a reception command to the remote management unit 41 that is in charge of communication between the NEs, and in the case of a response message received from the command processing unit 44, gives an instruction using the registered information. Send a response message to.

The account manager 43 verifies the user ID and password registered in the NE. And it performs registration or deletion of a new user and manages the information about it, and when the message for login is received from the port manager 42 compares the registered ID and password and returns the result.

The command processor 44 parses the actual command and outputs the result. It is also responsible for processing commands and calling related modules only for normal commands. In addition, when receiving the response message, the port management unit 42 also performs a function of transmitting.

The system software section 45 is software that actually monitors, operates, and controls each NE. In addition, the command processor 44 executes the command called.

The GUI 20 is a program installed and operated on a PC to monitor / operate / control the transmission equipment. Based on the basic GUI screen, a dedicated GUI screen is created each time you log in to each NE. It also passes the command to the NE and shows the operator's result and response message to the operator.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 4, since the port manager 42 registers information on each login environment, and also performs simple parsing of an input command, the port manager 42 cannot process the same even if a plurality of commands are received at the same time.

In addition, to perform this, the GUI should be configured as shown in FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a GUI screen using the present invention.

Login to the desired NE through the initial GUI screen, and if the login is successful, a dedicated GUI screen for the NE is created.

For example, the NE A GUI is a NE A dedicated GUI screen that is created after a successful login to NE A.

After that, the command for the corresponding NE is issued through the dedicated GUI screen, and the response is also output on the dedicated GUI screen.

In order to inquire information about another NE, the login to the NE is performed through the initial GUI screen. If the login is successful, a dedicated GUI screen for the NE is also generated.

For example, the NE B GUI is an NE B dedicated GUI screen created after a successful login to NE B.

If you log in to the NE that forms the network through the initial GUI screen, a dedicated GUI screen is created, allowing you to monitor and operate multiple NEs at the same time.

However, if the number of dedicated GUI screens increases, it may burden the PC in charge of processing each data. Therefore, the maximum number of NEs that can operate the dedicated GUI screens by logging in at the same time is limited for efficient use of the GUI.

As described above, the present invention monitors / operates / controls the state of a plurality of transmission devices at the same time by using a single GUI and system software to quickly identify the location of a failure and perform an effective response.

Although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention may use various changes, modifications, and equivalents. It is clear that the present invention can be applied in the same manner by appropriately modifying the above embodiments. That is, it can be applied not only to the GUI and system software of a large capacity WDM device but also to the operator interface of a similar transmission device. Accordingly, the above description does not limit the scope of the invention as defined by the limitations of the following claims.

As described above, the operation management apparatus and method through a single graphical user interface of the multi-transmission device according to the present invention by using a single GUI and system software to monitor / operate / control the status of a plurality of transmission equipment at the same time When a failure occurs, it is effective to quickly identify the location of the failure and to perform an effective response.

Claims (7)

A remote management unit for communicating with an external remote NE; A port manager configured to perform a management of the loginable ports in the GUI and to manage the loginable ports in the remote NE through the remote management; An account manager that performs verification of a user ID and a password registered to the NE through the port manager; A command processor for processing a command from the port manager and transmitting a response result to the port manager; And a system software unit configured to monitor / operate / control actual NEs according to the command processing unit. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote management unit, It is in charge of communication with the remote NE, which is an external NE, and if there is data to be sent to the outside, when the data is received, it is delivered to the module in charge of actual communication. Remote simultaneous operation management device for multiple transmission equipment, characterized in that to receive data and transmit the data to the relevant module. The method of claim 1, wherein the port management unit, It manages the ports that can be logged in as NE, checks the information in the target NE when a new login is performed, and in the case of login to the local NE, checks the permission of the NE to the account management unit. If the login to the remote NE, the receiving command to the remote management unit in charge of communication between the NE, and the response message received from the command processing unit using the registered information in response to the object that issued the command Remote simultaneous operation management device of multiple transmission equipment, characterized in that for transmitting. The method of claim 1, wherein the account management unit, Verify the user ID and password registered in the NE, perform the registration or deletion of new users, and manage the information about them, and when the message for login is received from the port management unit, the registered ID and password are compared. Remote simultaneous operation management device for multiple transmission equipment, characterized in that to return the result. Logging into the desired NE and generating a dedicated GUI screen for the NE; A second step of performing a command for the corresponding NE after the first step through the generated dedicated GUI screen, and then determining whether information inquiry on another NE is necessary; If it is necessary to query the information on the other NE, log-in to the information inquired NE through the GUI initial screen, and comprises a third step of generating a dedicated GUI screen for the NE Remote concurrent operation management method. The method of claim 5, Determining whether the maximum number of NEs is exceeded after the third step, and performing the second step again if the maximum number of NEs is not exceeded, and terminating if the maximum number of NEs is exceeded. Remote simultaneous operation management method of multiple transmission equipment. The method of claim 5, wherein the third step, At the time of login, the port management unit performs security verification by checking the information of users logging into the local NE through the account management unit, and the port management unit registers whether the login is input from a directly connected GUI or received from a remote management unit. Wow; Parsing a command received by the port manager to determine which command; If the command is a local command, transmitting the command to the system software to process the command and receive a response; If the command is a remote command, transmitting the command to the remote management unit to process a command and receive a response; Determining which port the response is for; If the response is a response to a GUI port, sending a response to a GUI; If the response is a response to the remote port, remote simultaneous operation management method of a plurality of transmission equipment, characterized in that it comprises the step of transmitting a response to the remote NE