KR20020055324A - Apparatus and Method for System Monitor in Switching System - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system state supervising apparatus in an exchange system is provided to transmit system information showing the state of system during the management of the exchange system to the terminal of manager by wireless, thereby supervising the state of the exchange system irrespective of time and place. CONSTITUTION: A message detecting unit(31) detects a system message showing an operation situation of the exchange system(30) and then outputs the detected message to a message output unit(32). The message output unit(32) outputs the detected message to a message output device(40) of a maintenance system and a wireless transmission discrimination/information conversion unit(33). The conversion unit(33) receives a system message from the message output unit(32) and discriminates the existence of wireless transmission of the system message. If the system message must be transmitted by wireless, the conversion unit(33) converts the system message into character information and applies the information to a wireless transmission unit(34). Thereafter, the wireless transmission unit(34) transmits the character information to a mobile terminal(50) such as a cellular phone or a PCS(Personal Communication System).

Description

Apparatus and Method for System Monitor in Switching System

The present invention relates to system monitoring in an exchange system, and in particular, the system information indicating the state of the system is wirelessly transmitted to the operator's mobile communication terminal during operation of the exchange system, so that the operator can change the system regardless of time or place. A system in an exchange system that monitors the status and selects the system information needed by the system operator and transmits it wirelessly to the operator's mobile communication terminal to promptly notify the system operator of a situation in which the system operator is interested. A condition monitoring apparatus and method.

In general, the exchanger system is composed of various kinds of electronic components, and performs a function of connecting a communication path by performing analog communication or digital communication, and when a part of the system is abnormally operated, part of the system or A situation may arise in which the entire operation cannot be performed, resulting in paralysis of the communication network. In order to prevent the occurrence of such a situation, it is necessary to continuously monitor the state of the exchange system and take an immediate response in case of a failure of the system.

In a conventional exchange system, the system status is monitored as shown in FIG. That is, the system state monitoring apparatus of the conventional exchange system 10 is provided with a failure detection unit 11 and a failure output unit 12, the failure detection unit 11 detects a failure in the exchange system 10 and Error information is outputted to the error output unit 12, and the error output unit 12 transmits the error information (fault content, error location, and failure level) applied from the failure detection unit 11 (the failure output device of the maintenance system ( 20), and the fault output device 20 outputs the fault information (error content, fault location, fault level) authorized from the fault output unit 12 to inform the system operator. In addition, when notifying the system operator of the failure information of the exchange system, if an alarm box, alarm buzzer, and alarm panel, which are additional equipments, are provided, the additional equipment is notified of the failure. Notify the system operator.

As the system monitoring device in the conventional exchange system as described above informs the system status only in the field area where the exchange system is installed, the system operator should always stay in the exchange system field, which requires a lot of manpower and reduces the economic efficiency of the system operation. In addition, when a large amount of system status information is generated during the operation of the exchange system, it is impossible to quickly determine whether a message is required by the system operator. There is this.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to transmit system information indicating the state of the system wirelessly to the operator's mobile communication terminal while operating the exchange system, thereby allowing the operator to perform the time and place. Regardless of monitoring the status of the exchange system, the system operator selects the system information needed by the system operator and transmits it wirelessly to the operator's mobile terminal to promptly notify the system operator of the situation of interest. An apparatus and method for monitoring system status in an exchange system are provided.

1 shows a system state monitoring apparatus in a conventional exchange system.

2 shows a system monitoring apparatus in an exchange system according to the invention.

Figure 3a is a flow chart of the operation of the message detector in the present invention.

Figure 3b is a flow chart of the operation of the message output unit in the present invention.

Figure 3c is a flow chart of the operation of the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit in the present invention.

Figure 3d is a flow chart of the operation of the wireless transmitter in the present invention.

3E is a flowchart of operation of a mobile communication terminal in the present invention.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the drawings

31: message detection unit 32: message output unit

33: wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit 34: wireless transmission unit

40: message output device 50: mobile communication terminal

A feature of the present invention for achieving the above object is a switch system, comprising: a message detection unit for detecting a system message indicating an operation state of a switch system; A message output unit which outputs a system message applied from the message detector; A wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit for converting the system message into text information and requesting wireless transmission if the system message received from the message output unit is a system message for wireless transmission; And a wireless transmitter for transmitting text information to the mobile communication terminal in response to a wireless transmitter request from the wireless transmitter / determiner.

On the other hand, the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit is characterized in that for determining the system message of the wireless transmission based on the information registered in the database.

The database may register and store system information and mobile communication terminal number desired for wireless transmission for each system operator.

The wireless transmission determining / information conversion unit may apply a mobile communication terminal number to the wireless transmission unit when requesting wireless transmission.

In addition, another feature of the present invention, if it detects a system message indicating the state of the exchange system, the process of determining whether the system message is a system message of the radio transmission target; Converting the system message into text information if the system message is a system message for wireless transmission; And wirelessly transmitting the text information to the mobile communication terminal.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 2, the system monitoring apparatus in the switchboard system 30 according to the present invention includes a message detector 31, a message output unit 32, a radio transmission determination / information conversion unit 33, and a radio transmission unit ( 34). The message detector 31 detects a system message indicating an operation state of the exchange system 30 and outputs the message to the message output unit 32. The message output unit 32 outputs a system message applied from the message detector 31. It outputs to the message output device 40 side of the maintenance system, and also to the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit 33 side. The wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit 33 receives a system message from the message output unit 32 to determine whether to wirelessly transmit the system message, and if it is determined that the wireless transmission should be performed, the system message is texted. The information is converted into information and applied to the radio transmitting unit 34 to request radio transmission. The wireless transmission unit 34 transmits text information to the mobile communication terminal 50 side such as a cellular phone or a PCS in response to a wireless transmission request from the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit 33. Then, the system message output from the message output unit 32 is output to be confirmed by the message output device 40 of the maintenance system and notified to the system operator, and the character information wirelessly transmitted from the wireless transmitter 34 is It is output by the system operator's mobile communication terminal 50 to be received and confirmed.

The system message detected by the message detector 31 is classified into an alarm message, an error message, and a status message. Each message has a unique serial number for management for each system, and the messages are managed according to the corresponding message unique number. do. In order for a system operator to select and receive a desired system message by the mobile terminal 50 owned by each individual, the system operator selects the desired system message and registers it in the database, and registers his mobile terminal number. It should be registered in the base. As such, for a service that notifies system operators wirelessly of system messages, individual and message-specific registration information is stored and managed in a database. The database is located in an exchange system and is maintained through a separate maintenance system. It is constructed to be able to change, add or delete the information by using a command. The system operator adds and records the system message serial number to receive the service that receives the text information wirelessly to the output request list, and sets the personal database by changing the additional information (date or time zone, etc.) for the wireless transmission target message. do.

In this way, the system operator registers the desired system information and his mobile communication terminal number in the database so as to receive the system message wirelessly. A description with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3E is as follows.

First, when the system is activated, the message detecting unit 31 performs an operation of monitoring the system state (step S1), and when detecting a system message (step S2), outputs the corresponding system message to the message output unit 32 side. do. In addition, when a system message applied from the message detection unit 31 is detected in the idle state (step S4), the message output unit 32 outputs the system message to the message output device 40 of the maintenance system. The message generation is reported (step S5), the system message is output to the radio transmission determination / information conversion section 33, the message generation is reported (step S6), and the state is switched to the idle state.

When the message generation is reported from the message output unit 32 (step S8), the radio transmission determination / information conversion unit 33 transmits the system message to the mobile communication terminal of the system operator based on the registration information of the database. It is determined whether or not to send (step S9), and if it is determined that the corresponding system message corresponds to a wireless sending target, the corresponding system message is converted into text information (step S10), and output to the wireless sending unit 34. The wireless transmission is requested, but the information for calling the wireless communication target mobile communication terminal is also applied to the wireless transmission unit 34 side (step S11).

On the other hand, if a wireless transmission request is generated from the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit 33 in the idle state (step S12), the wireless transmission unit 34 dials the number of the mobile communication terminal of the system operator for mobile communication. If the call connection is attempted with the terminal 50 and the call connection is made, the character information is wirelessly transmitted (step S13), and then the state is switched to the idle state. Thus, when the system operator's mobile communication terminal 50 is connected to the call in the idle state and receives the character information (step S14), the system operator outputs and displays the text information so that the character information can be visually checked (step S15). When the call is disconnected, it switches to the idle state.

As described above, in the present invention, the system operator registers the desired system information and his mobile communication terminal number in the database in order to receive the system message wirelessly, and when the system message is generated in the exchange system 30, the system message is generated. The operator transmits the desired system information wirelessly to the operator's mobile communication terminal 50 so that the operator monitors the state of the exchange system regardless of time and place.

As described above, the present invention wirelessly transmits system information indicating the state of the system to the operator's mobile communication terminal while operating the exchange system so that the operator can monitor the state of the exchange system regardless of time and place. In addition, the system operator selects the necessary system information and transmits it wirelessly to the operator's mobile communication terminal to promptly notify the system operator of the situation that the system operator is interested in. Therefore, the system operator continuously resides at the exchange system installation site. The system manpower can be reduced so that the system operation manpower can be reduced, which improves the economic efficiency of the system operation and enables the system operator to quickly identify whether a message is needed. do.

Claims (5)

11. An exchange system, comprising: a message detector for detecting a system message indicating an operational state of an exchange system; A message output unit which outputs a system message applied from the message detector; A wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit for converting the system message into text information and requesting wireless transmission if the system message received from the message output unit is a system message for wireless transmission; And a wireless transmission unit for transmitting text information to a mobile communication terminal in response to a wireless transmission request from the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wireless transmission determination / information conversion unit determines the system message of the wireless transmission target based on information registered in a database. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the database registers and stores the system information and the mobile communication terminal number desired for wireless transmission for each system operator. The apparatus of claim 1 or 2, wherein the radio transmission determination / information conversion unit applies a mobile communication terminal number to the radio transmission unit when requesting radio transmission. Determining whether a corresponding system message is a system message of a radio transmission target when detecting a system message indicating a state of an exchange system; Converting the system message into text information if the system message is a system message for wireless transmission; And wirelessly transmitting the text information to a mobile communication terminal.