WO2012083613A1

WO2012083613A1 - Multiversion upgrade method and apparatus for user self-defined performance indicator

Info

Publication number: WO2012083613A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/071861
Authority: WO
Inventors: 何维
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2010-12-20
Filing date: 2011-03-16
Publication date: 2012-06-28
Also published as: CN102025548A; CN102025548B

Abstract

A multiversion upgrade apparatus for a user self-defined performance indicator is provided by this invention. The apparatus includes a version parsing module for analyzing variation condition of a basic indicator that is arranged between the versions before and after upgrade and providing variation information of the basic indicator which is arranged between the two versions before and after upgrade to an indicator parsing module; and the indicator parsing module is utilized for analyzing and processing a user self-defined performance indicator according to the variation information of the basic indicator that is arranged between the two versions before and after upgrade. A multiversion upgrade method for a user self-defined performance indicator is also provided by this invention. The present invention provides a smooth upgrade method for user self-defined performance indicator, so that user can use, without modification, the self-defined performance indicator that is arranged before upgrade in the system after the system upgrade installation.

Description

Method and device for multi-version upgrade of user-defined performance index

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to the field of network performance management technologies, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for multi-version upgrade of user-defined performance indicators.

Background technique

The Performance Indicator is a quantitative management indicator used to measure the running status of the network by sampling, calculating, and analyzing the operating parameters reported by the network device. It is the most intuitive form of reflecting the running status of the entire system. Key Performance Indicator (KPI) refers to the performance indicators that operators are most concerned about, such as call drop rate. Currently, the performance management of the network management system provides a large number of performance indicators. Users can directly use these performance indicators for network performance statistics, but different operators may have different understandings of the indicator algorithms. Therefore, the network management system also supports user-defined key performance indicators (ΚΡΙ). Most of these custom ΚΡΙ are calculated by the basic metrics according to the specific processing algorithm. When the version of the network management system is upgraded, the basic indicators participating in the customization calculation may have been modified or deleted in the new version of the network management system, resulting in the user who has modified or deleted the basic indicator to participate in the calculation. Define key performance indicators (ΚΡΙ) statistics error, or can not be calculated. In the technology involving ΚΡΙ, most of them only give a customized method of ΚΡΙ. In the case of version upgrade in network performance management, the technical solution for multi-version smooth upgrade of user-defined performance indicators is not given, and there is no guarantee that these indicators will still be available after the upgrade. Therefore, when the network management system is upgraded, how to ensure that multiple versions of performance indicators are smoothly upgraded becomes a technical problem to be solved.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a multi-version of user-defined performance indicators. The upgrade method and device are used to solve the problem that the user-defined performance indicator is smoothly upgraded after the basic indicators are changed before and after the upgrade.

In order to solve the above problem, the present invention provides a device for multi-version upgrade of a user-defined performance indicator, and the device includes: a version resolution module, which is configured to: analyze a change of a basic indicator between a pre-upgrade version and an upgraded version. The indicator analysis module provides the change information of the basic indicators between the two versions before and after the upgrade; and the indicator analysis module, which is set to: analyze and process the performance indicators of each user according to the change information of the basic indicators between the two versions before and after the upgrade. The apparatus further includes: an interface display module configured to: display changes in the underlying metrics and/or changes in user-defined performance metrics. among them,

The change information of the basic indicator includes information of deleting, changing the name, and modifying the meaning. The indicator parsing module is configured to analyze and process each user-defined performance indicator according to the basic indicator change information according to the following manner: if the basic indicator is deleted, the corresponding customized performance indicator is set to an unavailable state; If the indicator name is modified, the name in the corresponding customized performance indicator description is modified; if the meaning of the basic indicator is modified, the basic indicator participating in the calculation of the custom performance indicator is replaced; if the basic indicator is unchanged, the custom performance indicator is not modified. . The interface display module is configured to display changes in the basic indicators and/or user-defined performance indicators in the following manner: Provides an algorithmic description of the user-defined performance metrics that have changed since the upgrade; and/or user-defined performance metrics that are set to be unavailable in a different system interface with special colors or icons. In order to solve the above problem, the present invention also provides a method for multi-version upgrade of a user-defined performance indicator, the method comprising: reading user-defined performance indicators in the system, and analyzing performance index calculations participating in the user customization. The change information of each basic indicator before and after the version upgrade; and the user-defined performance indicator according to the analysis of the basic indicator change information. The change information of the basic indicator includes information of deleting, changing a name, and modifying a meaning. The step of analyzing and processing the user-defined performance indicator includes: if the basic indicator is deleted, the custom performance indicator is set to be unavailable; if the basic indicator name is modified, the name in the performance indicator description is modified; if the basic indicator meaning is modified , replaces the basic indicator that participates in the calculation of the custom performance indicator; if the base indicator has not changed, the custom performance indicator is not modified. The method further includes: after the processing of the basic indicator is completed, continuing to process the basic indicator of the next change that participates in calculating the custom performance indicator, until all the basic indicators of the custom performance indicator are analyzed, starting the next The processing of a custom performance indicator. The method further includes: after all the customized performance indicators that have changed are processed, submitting a modification report, or displaying the change of the basic indicator and/or the performance indicator in different manners through the interface display module. among them: The steps of displaying the change of the basic indicator and/or the change of the performance indicator in different manners through the interface display module include: providing an algorithm description of the user-defined performance indicator after the upgrade by using the interface display module; and/or, through the interface User-defined performance metrics that display modules are placed in an unavailable state are displayed in special system colors with special colors or icons.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides a smooth upgrade method for user-defined performance indicators on the basis of supporting creation, deletion, and modification of custom indicators, so that after the system is upgraded and installed, the user can use the system before the upgrade without modification. Custom performance metrics.

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a multi-versioning device for performance indexing in an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a flowchart for parsing a version of a version parsing module in an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is an index of an index parsing module in an embodiment of the present invention; Analyze the flowchart.

The present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the features in the embodiments and the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other. In order to solve the problem that the custom performance indicator is not available due to the change of the basic indicator when the user-defined performance indicator is upgraded between multiple versions, the present invention proposes to implement the user self in the network performance management. Define multi-version upgrade methods and devices for performance metrics so that these performance metrics correctly count results in the new version. The device for upgrading the user-defined performance indicator in the embodiment of the present invention includes the following modules: a version resolution module, which is configured to: analyze a basic reference between the pre-upgrade version and the upgraded version. The change of the standard provides the indicator analysis module with the change information of the basic indicators between the two versions before and after the upgrade; the change information of the basic indicator includes one or more of several types, such as deletion, name change, and modification meaning; The parsing module is configured to: update and update each user-defined performance indicator according to the change information of the basic indicators between the two versions before and after the upgrade. The analysis update includes setting a user-defined performance indicator to be unavailable or updating the definition content of the performance indicator.

The device may further include: an interface display module, configured to: display the change of the indicator in different manners on the system interface, so that the user clearly understands the change of the indicator. The changes in the display indicators include showing changes in the underlying metrics and changes in user-defined performance metrics. Based on the foregoing device, the process of smoothly upgrading the user-defined performance indicator is as follows: The indicator analysis module reads a user-defined performance indicator in the system, and the version analysis module analyzes each basic indicator involved in the calculation of the performance indicator, and The basic indicator change information is notified to the indicator analysis module; the indicator analysis module processes each user-defined performance indicator according to the basic indicator change information: if the basic indicator is deleted, the customized performance indicator is set to an unavailable state; if the basic indicator name is If the modification is modified, the name of the performance indicator is modified. If the meaning of the basic indicator is modified, the basic indicator participating in the calculation of the custom performance indicator is replaced. If the basic indicator is unchanged, the custom performance indicator is not processed, that is, the customization is not changed. Sexual willingness to show;

After the processing of a basic indicator is completed, the basic indicator of the next change that participates in the calculation of the custom performance indicator is continued, and after all the basic indicators of the custom performance indicator are analyzed, the next custom performance indicator is started. deal with. After all the custom performance indicators have been processed, the modification report can be submitted, or the display module can be used to display the change of the indicator in different ways, so that the user can clearly understand the change of the indicator. Situation. At the time of presentation, changes in the underlying indicators and/or changes in performance indicators can be demonstrated. FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for smoothly upgrading a user-defined performance indicator according to an embodiment of the present invention. The apparatus includes: a version resolution module 101, configured to: analyze a basic indicator between a pre-upgrade version and an upgraded version according to a configuration file. The change situation finally forms a state change table, which is used to indicate the change of any changed basic indicator between the two versions before and after the upgrade, and the change information includes: deleting, changing the name, and modifying the meaning In the present invention, the meaning of the modification is to modify the ID of the basic indicator. The indicator analysis module 102 is configured to: process the user-defined performance indicators in the system one by one according to the change result of the basic indicators obtained by the version analysis module 101. , so that user-defined performance indicators can be counted normally in the upgraded new version, or can be directly processed to make the indicator unavailable. The interface display module 103 is configured to: according to the result of the indicator parsing module, clearly display the user-defined performance indicator and/or the change of the basic indicator to the user in different manners. At the time of presentation, an algorithmic description of the user-defined performance metrics after the upgrade can be provided; user-defined performance metrics that are set to be unavailable can also be displayed in different system interfaces with special colors or icons. An example of a configuration file that represents changes in the underlying metrics between different versions is as follows:

</config>

</updateList>

</indexSet> where the configuration file includes the following nodes:

<indexSet>:

Level 1 node, containing a list of base metric changes for all versions prior to the current release; <updateList versionID="2.8">:

The secondary node, including the change in the underlying indicator of version 2.8 relative to the previous version 2.7;

<config id="l ">:

The change of the basic indicator, including the change of a basic indicator, may be to delete, modify the name or modify the ID;

<oldID/>: ID of the previous version;

<oldNameE/>: the English name of the previous version;

<oldNameC/>: the Chinese name of the previous version;

<newID/>: The versionID identifies the new ID of the version;

<newNameE/>: The versionID identifies the English name of the version;

<newNameC/>: The versionID identifies the Chinese name of the version;

<IsDisable/>: Whether the base indicator is still available in the versionID identification version;

<IsChangeName/>: Whether the base indicator is changed in the version of the versionID identifier; since the actual application system may need to support the Chinese-English locale system, the configuration item contains the change of the Chinese and English names. The operation of comparing the change of name in the following description is also based on this. In some cases, the Chinese name has changed, but the English name has not been modified, and vice versa. The above configuration file contains the changes of the basic indicators of all versions before the current version, which is divided by version, so that a new version can be added, and only the basic indicator changes of this version can be added. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of performing version analysis by a version parsing module according to an embodiment of the present invention, including Next steps:

Step 301: Obtain a basic indicator update list of the to-be-processed version. Step 302: Process each basic indicator change. If there is a change item of the basic indicator in the update list, go to step 303. If not, go to step 311; Step 303: Whether the saved change item in the update list is a deleted item, if yes, go to the step

323, if not, go to step 304; Step 304: Whether the change item (an item identified by the config tag) is a deleted item, if yes, go to step 305, if not, go to step 306; Step 305: Update the list The corresponding item is set as the deleted item, and the IsDisable tag of the matching item in the updated table is set to 1, indicating that it is unavailable, and the process proceeds to step 323; Step 306: Whether the change item is changed name, if yes, then go to step 307, if not, turn Step 308: Step 307: Replace the old name of the corresponding basic indicator in the update list with the new name of the change item, that is, replace the newNameC and newNameE attributes, and go to step 323; Step 308: Whether the change item is changed ID, and if yes, go to step 309, if not, go to step 323; Step 309: Replace the newID attribute of the change item with the newID attribute of the corresponding basic indicator in the update list, go to step 310; Step 310: Use the newID as the key value, and update the corresponding base in the table. The indicator change item is inserted into the reverse search table, and the process proceeds to step 323. Step 311: The reverse search table includes the oldID key value of the change item. If yes, go to step 312. If not, Go to step 320; Step 312: Whether the change item is a deleted item, if yes, go to step 313, if not, go to step 315; Step 313: Set the change item in the update list as a deleted item (operation mode is the same as step 305) , go to step 314; Step 314: Remove the deleted item oldID key value in the reverse search table, and go to step 323; Step 315: Whether the change item is a renamed name, if yes, go to step 316, if not, go to step 317; Step 316: Use The new name of the change item replaces the name of the corresponding basic indicator in the update list (operation mode is the same as step 307), and the process proceeds to step 323; Step 317: Whether the change item is changed ID, if yes, go to step 318, if not, go to step 323. Step 318: Replace the newID attribute of the corresponding basic indicator in the update list with the newID attribute of the change item, and go to step 319; Step 319: Remove the change item oldID key value from the reverse search table, and use the newID as the key value. Insert the corresponding basic indicator change item in the update list into the reverse search table, and go to step 323; Step 320: Add the change item to the update list, go to step 321; Step 321: Whether the change item is ID modification, and if yes, go to step 322, if not, go to step 323; Step 322: add the change item to the reverse search table, use the newID as the key value, go to step 323; Step 323: Whether the current processed version has been processed, and if so, then go to the step 324, if not, go to step 302; Step 324: Is there still an updated list of pending versions, if yes, go to step 301, if not, end; the initialization of the update list is completed in the version analysis module, through the above process, before the upgrade The version change item between the version and the upgraded version is processed item by item, and the update list initialization between the initial version and the upgrade version is finally completed. The application production version update list can be independently produced by version, which is convenient for operation. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an indicator analysis module performing index analysis according to an embodiment of the present invention, including: Step 401: Decomposing a user-defined performance indicator to be processed into a basic indicator set participating in the calculation, and proceeding to step 402; Step 402: The search update list has a pending base indicator ID key value. If not, go to step 410, if yes, go to step 403; Step 403: Whether the basic indicator is deleted in the new version, and if so, then Step 404, if not, go to step 405; Step 404: Set the custom performance indicator to an unavailable indicator (each indicator has a field indicating whether the indicator is available in the new version), go to step 410; Step 405: Whether the basic indicator is modified in the new version, if yes, go to step 406, if not, go to step 408; Step 406: Check if the item is new or old, if yes, go to step 410, if not, go to step 407; 407: Take out the newNameC, oldNameC or newNameE, oldNameE (consistent with the locale) of the checkout item, and perform the following pseudocode operation: batch label. indicator description. replaceAll(oldName, newName), go to step 410; step 408: the basis Whether the indicator is modified in the new version (modification meaning), if yes, go to step 409, if not, go to step 410; Step 409: Take out the new ID of the checked item, replace The ID of the basic indicator is changed to step 410; Step 410: Whether there is still a basic indicator to be processed, if yes, go to step 402, if not, go to step 411; Step 411: Whether there is still a performance index to be processed, and if yes, go to step 401. If not, it ends. The above is only the embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes can be made to the present invention. Any modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc., made within the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be performed by a program to instruct the associated hardware, such as a read only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Optionally, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be used. One or more integrated circuits are implemented. Correspondingly, each module unit in the foregoing embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware, or may be implemented in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

Industrial Applicability The present invention provides a smooth upgrade method for user-defined performance indicators on the basis of supporting the creation, deletion, and modification of custom indicators, so that after the system is upgraded and installed, the user can use the customized performance in the system before the upgrade without modification. index.

Claims

Claim

A device for upgrading a multi-version of a user-defined performance indicator, the device includes: a version resolution module, configured to: analyze a change of a basic indicator between a pre-upgrade version and an upgraded version, and provide an upgrade to the indicator parsing module. The change information of the basic indicators between the two versions; and the indicator analysis module, which is set to: analyze and process the performance indicators customized by each user according to the change information of the basic indicators between the two versions before and after the upgrade.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising: an interface display module configured to: display changes in the underlying metrics and/or changes in user-defined performance metrics.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein

The change information of the basic indicator includes information of deleting, changing the name, and modifying the meaning.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the indicator parsing module is configured to analyze and process each user-defined performance indicator according to the basic indicator change information according to the following manner: if the basic indicator is deleted, the corresponding customization is performed. The performance indicator is set to the unavailable state; if the basic indicator name is modified, the name in the corresponding customized performance indicator description is modified; if the basic indicator meaning is modified, the basic indicator participating in the calculation of the customized performance indicator is replaced; If there is no change, the custom performance indicator will not be modified.

5. The device according to claim 2, wherein the interface display module is configured to display changes in the basic indicators and/or user-defined performance indicators in the following manner: Provides an algorithmic description of the user-defined performance metrics that have changed since the upgrade; and/or user-defined performance metrics that are set to be unavailable in a different system interface with special colors or icons.

6. A method for multi-version upgrade of a user-defined performance indicator, the method comprising: reading a user-defined performance indicator in the system, and analyzing each basic indicator participating in the user-defined performance indicator calculation before and after the version upgrade Change information; and process user-defined performance indicators based on basic indicator change information analysis.

The method according to claim 6, wherein the change information of the basic indicator includes information of deleting, changing a name, and modifying a meaning.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the step of analyzing and processing the user-defined performance indicator comprises: if the basic indicator is deleted, the custom performance indicator is set to an unavailable state; if the basic indicator name is modified, modifying the performance The name in the indicator description; if the meaning of the basic indicator is modified, replace the basic indicator that participates in the calculation of the custom performance indicator; if the basic indicator has not changed, the custom performance indicator is not modified.

9. The method according to claim 6 or 8, the method further comprising: after processing the basic indicator is completed, continuing to process the basic indicator participating in the calculation of the next change of the custom performance indicator until the custom performance After all the basic indicators of the indicator have been analyzed, the processing of the next custom performance indicator is initiated.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising: submitting a modification report after all the customized performance indicators that have been changed are processed, or displaying the change of the basic indicator in different manners through the interface display module and/or Or changes in performance indicators.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein: the step of displaying the change of the basic indicator and/or the change of the performance indicator in different manners through the interface display module comprises: providing a user customization of the changed after the upgrade through the interface display module An algorithmic description of the performance metrics; and/or user-defined performance metrics that are placed in an unavailable state through the interface presentation module are displayed with special colors or icons in different system interfaces.