KR20080101234A - Method for handling management message in telecommunication services platform and system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for handling a management message in telecommunication services platform and a system thereof are provided to operate an platform without developing and changing the additional function of a management message process software. A management message generated from a service software module is collected when introducing new services(S100). The key value of the generated management message and key value of the management message common format are compared(S200). According to the searched common format, data of the newly generated management message is extracted(S300) and outputted in a form which an operator wants(S400).

Description

METHOD FOR HANDLING MANAGEMENT MESSAGE IN TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES PLATFORM AND SYSTEM THEREOF}

1A and 1B are diagrams illustrating a conventional management message.

2 is a block diagram of a management message processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a structure diagram of a management message format according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4A and 4B illustrate embodiments of a management message defined according to the management format of FIG. 3.

5 is various embodiments of message output according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a management message processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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100: service software module 200: management message processing system

210: management message collection unit 220: management message format definition unit

230: database 240: management message comparison analysis unit

250: data extraction unit 260: management message output unit

The present invention relates to a management message processing method and a system of the communication service platform, and more particularly, management that occurs during system operation among management software elements applied to platforms such as BcN application layer, control layer, transmission layer and management layer. The present invention relates to a method of defining a management message common format for a message so that a management message can be processed without developing or changing an additional function of the management message processing software when a new service is introduced, thereby enabling platform operation.

In general, each service software module for providing a communication service in a communication service providing system generates various management messages such as types of information for analyzing a state of each service, statistics, billing, and event messages.

These management messages have different formats as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B according to the service type, and each management message processing software must be provided to process the management messages having these different formats.

In FIGS. 1A and 1B, [P-123] and [F-124] mean key values, and "Service Performance: Hourly" and "Service Fault: Hourly" mean titles, and "Req", "Rsp", and "Suc". "," Fail "means a parameter, the numerical value corresponding to each parameter means a parameter value. FIG. 1A illustrates a message structure arranged in a horizontal form as representing a management message format of service A, and FIG. 1B illustrates a message structure arranged in a vertical form as illustrating a management message format of service b.

As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, a management message has various and various forms of arranging parameters, the number of parameters, and values of parameters according to a service. In this example, the management message has a very complicated aspect.

Therefore, when introducing a new service, there is a problem of changing the existing management message processing software to a new service or developing management message processing software for a new service.

In particular, in the case of BcN service, the types of services provided are very diverse, the service lifespan is short, and a plurality of service (application) softwares are mounted and operated on one service platform.

Therefore, there is a management message processing software that exists in common in addition to a plurality of service software in the service platform, and this management message processing software must be changed or newly added every time a new service is introduced.

That is, in the related art, each time a new service is introduced, the time required for the development cost and the service is increased due to the change and addition of the management message processing software, and the software maintenance is prevented by the frequent change of the management message processing software, impairing the consistency of the software structure. And it is difficult to manage, and the software stabilization period is required for each new service introduction, which has a negative effect on the stable operation of the entire platform.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, by defining a management message generated from each service software module in the service platform in a common format, the management message processing for processing the management message generated in the new service when a new service is installed The purpose is to enable service provision without adding or changing software.

Management message processing method of the communication service platform according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object, by collecting a management message generated from the service software module when a new service is introduced, including the management message content and its location information A first process of defining and storing a management message common format and a second process of collecting a newly generated management message from the service software module and comparing a key value of the newly generated management message with a key value of the stored management message common format And a third process of extracting data of the newly generated management message according to the found common format and outputting the data in a desired format by the operator when the common format matched with the comparison result is found.

In addition, the management message processing system of the communication service platform according to an embodiment of the present invention, the management message collection unit for collecting management messages from a plurality of service software modules, and the management message received from the management message collection unit the management message A management message common format defining unit defining a management message common format including contents and location information thereof, a database storing the defined management message common format, key values of management messages collected from the management message collecting unit, and Data extraction for extracting data according to the location information in the common format by applying a management message comparison analysis unit and the matching common format to compare the key values of the management message common format stored in a database. And management using the extracted data. And a management message output unit configured to output a message in a format desired by an operator.

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

2 is a block diagram of a management message processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The management message processing system 200 of the present invention includes a management message collection unit 210, a management message common format definition unit 220, a database 230, a management message comparison analysis unit 240, a data extractor 250, And a management message output unit 260. In this case, the management message processing system 200 communicates with the service software module 100 through various communication methods such as a socket transmission (TCP / UDP), a message queue, and a method using a file. In the present invention, a method using a file is used as an example. Explain. However, the present invention can be applied in a similar form to other communication schemes.

The management message collection unit 210 collects management messages generated from the plurality of service software modules 100, respectively. At this time, the management message is a message provided to understand the status of the service providing software, and means a message such as service failure, statistics, billing and events, and various forms depending on the role of the application as shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B for each service type. Will have

The management message common format definition unit 220 defines each management message received from the management message collection unit 210 in the management message common format as shown in FIG. 3 and delivers the management message to the database 230.

As shown in FIG. 3, the management message common format includes a key value for classifying messages by service type, a title including message name information, a string for describing the contents of the message, and a message. It includes a parameter corresponding to a name of a value within the parameter and a parameter value representing an actual value of the parameter, and includes location information about each key value, title, parameter, and parameter value. Here, the location information is used to extract data such as a key value, a title, a parameter, a parameter value, and the like in the data extracting unit later for processing the management message. Here, the common format of the management message is simplified, and it is desirable to define and use various forms in actual application examples.

An embodiment of the management message common format definition is shown in Figures 4A and 4B. That is, FIGS. 4A and 4B are exemplary views in which a management message having a different format in FIGS. 1A and 1B is defined in accordance with the common format as shown in FIG. 3.

4A is an example of defining a common format for the management message of service A of FIG. 1A. The key value of the management message of FIG. 1A is "[P123]" and the position is defined by one column, one row [1, 1], and the title Is "Service Performance Hourly Data" and its position is defined as 1 column 2 to 5 rows [1,2..5], and the parameters "Req.rcv Rsp.snd Rcv.Byte Snd.Byte Succ Fail" The position is defined by 3 columns, 1 row to 6 rows [3,1] to [3,6], and each parameter value "100, 90, 1000, 2000, 90, 10" has the position information of 5 columns 1 row To 6 lines [5,1] to [5,6].

In this case, in order to avoid duplication of key values, the combined value of the key value [P123] and the title may be viewed as key values. Since the parameters and parameters are separated by a margin, the total number and names of the parameters are converted into data. On the other hand, each position information can be determined as the position of the relative line starting with the position of the key value [1], and even if not, the key value can be found through the comparison process for the string.

Meanwhile, in the case of the management message of the service B of FIG. 1B, although the arrangement of the title and the parameter is different from that of the service A, the management message can be generated through the same message process, and the common format of the management message of the service B is shown in FIG. 4B. Is defined as:

The database 230 stores a management message common format defined from the management message common format definition unit 220.

The management message comparison analysis unit 240 compares the management message collected by the management message collection unit 210 with the management message common format stored in the database 230.

The data extractor 250 extracts each key value, title, parameter, and parameter value from the common format of the management message, and delivers them to the management message output unit 260.

The management message output unit 260 outputs a management message in various formats as shown in FIG. 5 by using the data received from the data extraction unit 250. At this time, it is preferable to output in the format desired by the operator among the various output formats in FIG.

Hereinafter, a management message processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 6.

First, although not shown in FIG. 6, the management messages output from each service software module 100 are defined in the management message common format by the management message common format definition unit 220 and stored in the database 230 in advance. The management message processing method of FIG. 6 will be performed.

At this time, the management message common format definition unit 220 analyzes the collected management messages for each type of message, classifies them into key values, titles, strings, parameters, and parameter values, and defines their location information in the format shown in FIG. 3. do.

As described above, after defining the management message common format, the management message collection unit 210 collects new management messages generated from each service software module 100 by introducing a new service (S100).

Thereafter, the management message comparison and analysis unit 240 reads a character separated by a blank from the received management message as a string, compares the read value with a key value of a management message common format previously stored in the database 230. When a matching management message common format is found (S200), data (parameter value) is extracted according to the position information of the format (S300).

In this case, the message number and the title which are key values vary depending on the message type of the same service, and if the same message type corresponds, the message number and title are also the same. For example, in FIG. 4A, the message whose key value is [P123] and the title is "Service Performance hourly Data" is a kind of alarm message, and the management message of the alarm message type has the same key value [P123] and the title "Service Performance hourly Data". Will have the value of the parameter.

That is, when the 4 o'clock statistics management message of the statistics related service A is stored in the database 230 as shown in FIG. 4a, and the 4 o'clock statistics management message of the service A related to the statistics is collected later, the management message at 3 o'clock. And the 4 o'clock statistical management message, since the message is the same, the key value [P123] and the title "Service Performance hourly Data" are the same, so that the management message comparison analysis unit 240 performs the 3 o'clock for the 4 o'clock statistical management message processing. The common format of statistics management messages is used. That is, the parameters of the 4 o'clock statistical management message and its parameter values may be extracted by applying each parameter of the 3 o'clock statistical management message and the position information of the parameter value as it is.

The process S200 and S300 will be described in more detail, and the management message comparison analyzer 240 reads [P123] from the first string of the first line of the message. Then, a format matching with the key value [P123] is found by comparing with the management message common format previously defined in the database 230. In this case, it is assumed that the key value is always defined as a unique value.

Accordingly, the left message format of which the key value of FIG. 4A is [P123] is selected, and the analysis is continued as described in the corresponding message format. That is, through [1,1..5] [[P123] Service Performance Hourly Data], the title of this message is recognized as the fifth string from the first string of the first line and from the first of the first line of the received message. Read the fifth field. Since the read content and the key value and title content of the message format of Fig. 4A are the same, they are registered as message titles. After that, the analysis contents of parameters and values are processed in the same form as the above example and registered as parameters and values.

Accordingly, the management message output unit 260 changes the output form designated by the operator using the parameter values extracted from the data extraction unit 250 and outputs a management message in one of the output formats of FIG. 5 (S400).

As described above, when the analysis and processing of the management message is completed, the management message processing software manages each parameter and value in a normalized form, so that the output of the management message can be output in any defined format.

By this process, the present invention can process the new message without changing the management message processing software for the new management message and developing additional functions.

In the present invention as described above, even if the billing data generated by the service software module, such as in the case of billing data, to be transmitted to the system linked to the network, data generation for the parameters and values of the generated data is possible. Therefore, by configuring and transmitting the message format required by the billing message, it becomes possible without changing the billing software or the transmission message format, and can be applied to the entire management message of the platform.

As described above, the present invention can output the management message generated from the new service software in a desired form without changing the management message processing software and developing additional functions even when the new service is introduced to the communication service platform, thereby reducing development costs and The service processing time can be shortened, and the service platform can be stably operated by minimizing changes to existing common processing software.

In addition, the present invention has the effect of enabling the transmission without changing the existing transmission software and adding a function even when the message is transmitted to other systems on the network as well as the output of the management message.

In addition, the preferred embodiment of the present invention for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art will be able to various modifications, changes, replacements and additions through the spirit and scope of the appended claims, such modifications and changes are the following claims Should be seen as belonging to.

Claims (10)

A first step of collecting a management message generated from a service software module when introducing a new service, defining and storing the management message in a common format including a management message content and location information thereof and storing the same; A second step of collecting a newly generated management message from the service software module and comparing a key value of the newly generated management message with a key value of the stored management message common format; And And a third process of extracting data of the newly generated management message according to the found common format and outputting the data in a desired format by the operator when the matching common format is found. Treatment method. The method of claim 1, wherein the first process comprises: And analyzing the collected management messages for each type of message and defining the management message common format including a key value, a title, a string, a parameter, a parameter value, and the location information. The method of claim 2, wherein the three steps include: And extracting the parameter value according to the searched position information of the common format, configuring the operator into an output format desired by the operator, and outputting a management message.       The method of claim 2, wherein the second process comprises: And managing the message number information when comparing the key values. The key value of claim 2, wherein And at the time of comparing the key values, message number information and the title together. A management message collection unit collecting management messages from a plurality of service software modules; A management message common format definition unit defining a management message received from the management message collection unit as a management message common format including the management message contents and location information thereof; A database for storing the defined management message common format; A management message comparison and analysis unit for searching for a matching common format by comparing a key value of a management message collected from the management message collection unit with a key value of a management message common format stored in the database; A data extracting unit which extracts data according to positional information in the common format by applying the matching common format; And a management message output unit configured to output and configure the management message in a format desired by an operator by using the extracted data. The method of claim 6, wherein the management message common format definition unit, And analyzing the collected management messages for each type of message and defining the management message common format including a key value, a title, a string, a parameter, a parameter value, and the location information. The method of claim 7, wherein the data extraction unit, And extracting the parameter value according to the searched position information of the common format to configure the output format desired by the operator to output a management message. The method of claim 6, wherein the management message comparison analysis unit, And the message number information is compared at the time of the key value comparison. The method of claim 6, wherein the management message comparison analysis unit, And message number information and the title when comparing the key values.

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