WO2017054468A1

WO2017054468A1 - Method and system implementing inspection

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Publication number: WO2017054468A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/082518
Authority: WO
Inventors: 洪小伟
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-09-30
Filing date: 2016-05-18
Publication date: 2017-04-06
Also published as: CN106559823A

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a method and system implementing inspection. The method comprises: transmitting, by an inspection terminal, equipment subscription information to a wireless communication device connected to network element equipment; and feeding back, by the wireless communication device, according to the equipment subscription information, and to the inspection terminal, equipment information of the network element equipment.

Description

Method and system for realizing inspection

Technical field

This application relates to, but is not limited to, the core network field.

Background technique

The core network (Core Network) is the core of the telecommunication network. It is an important task for the operator to ensure the health and stability of the network element equipment. The problem and the elimination of hidden dangers, the health and stability of the network element equipment provides an important communication basis for the normal operation of the core network and the system network.

In the related art, the carrier generally uses the following patrol mode for the NE device:

1. The maintenance personnel check the running status of the NE device in the monitoring room through the inspection system (usually the desktop). The hardware of the NE device is abnormal (for example, the network port indicator is not working properly), and the maintenance personnel goes to the equipment room to perform the fault. exclude.

2. The maintenance personnel go to the equipment room for routine inspections to check whether the indicator of the NE device is normal. For the abnormality of the indicator of the NE device, the maintenance personnel need to return to the monitoring room. The NE device searches for the NE in the inspection system. After the device indicator is abnormal, go to the equipment room for troubleshooting.

The above-mentioned inspection mode: the maintenance personnel, the inspection system of the monitoring room, and the network element equipment are separated, and the fault detection and analysis processing cannot be performed in real time, which reduces the work efficiency of the inspection. In addition, for a computer room with a large computer room area (generally a computer room at the provincial and municipal level), because there are many network elements, it is impossible to quickly find the faulty network element equipment in the equipment room and also affect the efficiency of the inspection work.

Summary of the invention

The following is an overview of the topics detailed in this document. This Summary is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

This paper provides a method and system for implementing inspections, which can avoid the problem of separation of the three sides of the inspection process and improve the efficiency of inspection.

A method for implementing inspections, including:

The patrol terminal sends the device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device;

The wireless communication device feeds back the device information of the network element device to the patrol terminal according to the device subscription information.

Optionally, before the patrol terminal sends the device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device, the method further includes:

Corresponding to each of the network element devices in the equipment room, the corresponding wireless communication device is connected, and the device information of the network element device connected to the wireless communication device is collected by the wireless communication device.

Optionally, respectively, connecting each of the network element devices in the equipment room to the corresponding wireless communication device includes:

Deploying one of the wireless communication devices separately for each network element device;

The rack of the network element device is connected to the wireless communication device deployed to the network element device.

Optionally, the device subscription information includes:

Device identification of the network element device, and/or device location, and/or device status, and/or device service date, and/or device maintenance record.

Optionally, the wireless communication device is a Bluetooth device or a ZigBee protocol ZigBee device.

Optionally, when the device information includes the device location, the method further includes

The patrol terminal generates path information to the network element device according to the device location of the network element device.

Optionally, the method further includes:

The patrol terminal performs information exchange with the patrol system of the monitoring room, and synchronizes information about the device information of the network element device.

The patrol terminal authenticates the wireless communication device connected to each network element device.

A system for implementing a patrol inspection, comprising: a patrol terminal, and a wireless communication device in one-to-one correspondence with the network element device; wherein

The patrol terminal includes a subscription unit and a receiving unit; wherein

a subscription unit, configured to: send device subscription information to the wireless communication device;

a receiving unit, configured to: receive device information of the network element device fed back by the wireless communication device;

The wireless communication device is connected to the network element device, including a feedback unit,

The feedback unit is configured to: after receiving the subscription information of the device, feed back the device information of the network element device to the inspection terminal according to the subscription information of the device.

Optionally, the wireless communication device further includes an acquisition unit, configured to: collect device information of the network element device connected to the wireless communication device.

Optionally, the patrol terminal further includes a path generating unit, configured to: when the device information of the received network element device includes the device location, generate path information to the network element device according to the device location of the network element device.

Optionally, the patrol terminal further includes a synchronization unit, and the system further includes a patrol system.

The synchronization unit is configured to: perform information exchange with the inspection system of the monitoring room, and synchronize information of the device information of the network element device;

The patrol system is configured to: perform information exchange with the patrol terminal, and synchronize information of the device information of the network element device.

Optionally, the patrol terminal further includes an authentication unit configured to: authenticate the wireless communication device connected to each network element device.

A computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for performing the method of any of the above.

Compared with the related art, the technical solution of the present application includes: the patrol terminal sends the device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device; and the wireless communication device feeds back the device information of the network element device to the patrol terminal according to the device subscription information. The method of the embodiment of the present invention performs the patrol inspection of the network element device according to the device information fed back by the wireless communication device, avoids the problem of separation of the patrol inspection process, and improves the working efficiency of the patrol inspection. In addition, the path information and the patrol terminal and the patrol are generated. The information of the inspection system is synchronized, which further improves the efficiency of the inspection work.

Other aspects will be apparent upon reading and understanding the drawings and detailed description.

BRIEF abstract

1 is a flowchart of a method for implementing a patrol inspection according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a structural block diagram of a system for implementing a patrol inspection according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 3 is a flow chart of a method of the second embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 4 is a flow chart of a method of a third embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

Figure 6 is a flow chart of a method in accordance with a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiments of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below 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.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for implementing a patrol inspection according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes:

Step 100: The patrol terminal sends device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device.

This step can also include:

Each of the network element devices in the equipment room is respectively connected with a corresponding wireless communication device, and the device information of the network element device connected thereto is collected by the wireless communication device.

Optionally, each of the network element devices in the equipment room is respectively connected to a corresponding wireless communication device, including:

Deploying one wireless communication device separately for each network element device;

The wireless communication device is connected to the rack management module (CMM) board of the network element device and the service board through the connection with the rack of the network element device. Here, the connection to the CMM board and the business board can be realized by integration in the CMM board.

In the method of the embodiment of the present invention, the device subscription information may include:

Device identification of the network element device, and/or device location, and/or device status, and/or device service date, and/or device maintenance record, and the like.

The device subscription information can be set according to the actual situation, for example, according to the purpose of the inspection, the status of the network element device, and performance requirements.

The wireless communication device can be a Bluetooth device or a ZigBee device.

In order to meet the work requirements of the inspection, the wireless communication device generally selected needs to meet the coverage and transmission quality. For example, the Bluetooth device needs to meet the requirements in terms of transmission efficiency and wireless coverage. Generally, the Bluetooth device adopts Bluetooth technology version 4.0. The above device. ZigBee is a low-power LAN protocol based on the IEEE802.15.4 standard.

Step 101: The wireless communication device feeds back the device information of the network element device to the patrol terminal according to the device subscription information.

When the device information includes the device location, the method of the embodiment of the present invention may further include

The method of the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

The inspection terminal interacts with the inspection system of the monitoring room to synchronize information of the device information of the network element device.

Before step 100, the method may further include:

The method of the embodiment of the present invention performs the patrol inspection of the network element device according to the device information fed back by the wireless communication device, avoids the problem of separation of the patrol inspection process, and improves the working efficiency of the patrol inspection. In addition, the path information and the patrol terminal and the patrol are generated. The information of the inspection system is synchronized, which further improves the efficiency of the inspection work.

2 is a structural block diagram of a system for implementing a patrol inspection according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the patrol terminal 21 includes a wireless communication device 22 that is in one-to-one correspondence with the network element device 23.

The patrol terminal 21 includes a subscription unit 211 and a receiving unit 212;

The subscription unit 211 is configured to: send the device subscription information to the wireless communication device 22;

The receiving unit 212 is configured to: receive the setting of the network element device 23 fed back by the wireless communication device 22 Preparation information

The wireless communication device 22 is connected to the network element device 23 and includes at least a feedback unit 221.

The feedback unit 221 is configured to: after receiving the subscription information of the device, feed back the device information of the network element device 23 to the patrol terminal 21 according to the device subscription information.

The wireless communication device 22 further includes an acquisition unit 222 configured to collect device information of the network element device 23 connected to the wireless communication device 22.

The wireless communication device 22 can be a Bluetooth device or a ZigBee device.

The patrol terminal 21 may further include a path generating unit 213 configured to: when the device information of the received network element device 23 includes the device location, generate path information to the network element device 23 according to the device location of the network element device 23.

The inspection terminal 21 may further include a synchronization unit 214, which may further include a inspection system 24,

The synchronization unit 214 is configured to: perform information interaction with the inspection system 24 of the monitoring room, and perform information synchronization on the device information of the network element device 23;

The patrol system 24 is configured to: perform information exchange with the patrol terminal 21, and perform information synchronization on the device information of the network element device 2.

The patrol terminal 21 may further include an authentication unit 215 configured to authenticate the wireless communication device 22 connected to each network element device 23.

The following is a clear and detailed description of the embodiments, which are merely used to illustrate the invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

Example 1

A wireless communication device is separately deployed for each network element device in the equipment room. The wireless communication device in this embodiment may be a Bluetooth device (which may also be a Bluetooth base station); the maintenance personnel use the inspection terminal to perform daily inspections of the equipment room. In order to ensure the security of the core network and the management of the patrol system, the patrol terminal and the Bluetooth device deployed by the network element device perform authentication. According to the communication networking mode, generally, each Bluetooth device allocates corresponding information through an existing algorithm or policy. Device identification. During the daily patrol process, when the device information fed back by the Bluetooth device indicates that the network element device is abnormal, the device identification can be performed by the device identifier. The network device has a large area and a large number of network element devices. In this embodiment, each network element device is used. After the Bluetooth device is connected, in addition to setting the device identification for the Bluetooth device, the network is also determined according to the distribution of the network element device. Information about the device location of the metadevice, which is generally referred to herein as coordinate information. In this embodiment, the patrol terminal can perform information synchronization with the monitoring room patrol system, and the patrol system can update the device information of the network element device in real time. The inspection process of this embodiment may include the following parts:

The patrol terminal develops device subscription information according to the patrol content, and the patrol terminal broadcasts the push device subscription information to the Bluetooth device within its communication coverage by means of Bluetooth communication.

Optionally, the subscription device information generally includes: a device identifier, and/or a device location, and/or a device status, and/or a device service date, and/or a device maintenance record. According to the purpose and efficiency of the patrol, the device can set the subscription device information including: device number, device location, device maintenance record, and device status. The device subscription information can be adjusted according to actual patrol conditions.

Each Bluetooth device collects device information of the network element device connected thereto according to the device subscription information pushed by the patrol terminal;

The Bluetooth device sends the collected device information to the patrol terminal; here, the method for the device information to be sent to the patrol terminal can be implemented according to an existing communication method.

After the patrol terminal receives the device information sent by the Bluetooth device, the maintenance personnel can determine whether the network element device is faulty according to the device information.

When it is determined by the device information that the network element device is faulty, the device identifier and the device location may be determined by using the device information, and the network element device may be determined according to the device identifier, and according to the location of the inspection terminal and the device location, the device may be generated to go to the network element device. Path information. Of course, if the network element device is determined by the device identifier, the patrol terminal and the non-faulty Bluetooth device can be used as the reference base station, and the existing wireless positioning method, for example, based on the signal strength calculation method, is used to determine the faulty network element. The location of the device and the path information for generating the device to the network element, and generally also the distance information.

After the NE device is found according to the path information, the device can perform troubleshooting on the NE device. In this embodiment, the patrol device sends the device information after the NE device completes the troubleshooting to the patrol system for device information synchronization.

Example 2

In the wireless communication device of the embodiment, the Bluetooth device is still taken as an example. Since the network element device and the Bluetooth device are connected in a one-to-one correspondence, the location of the network element device and the location of the Bluetooth device can be considered to be the same. The distinguishing identifier of the Bluetooth device can also use the device identifier of the network element device; each Bluetooth device in the equipment room can communicate with each other to realize the transmission of the device identification and the location information, and each Bluetooth base station can acquire all the Bluetooth base stations in the equipment room through mutual transmission. Distinguish the identity and location of the device. 3 is a flowchart of a method according to a second embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, when the patrol terminal enters the equipment room, the method includes:

Step 300: The patrol terminal detects a Bluetooth device connected to the network element device (assuming the number is 1), and the sending device subscribes to the message;

Step 301: After the patrol terminal interacts with the Bluetooth device, obtain the distinguishing identifier and device location of all Bluetooth base stations in the equipment room;

Step 302: The Bluetooth device 1 sends the device subscription information sent by the patrol terminal to other Bluetooth devices in the equipment room by means of a broadcast mode. In this embodiment, the Bluetooth device n indicates other Bluetooth devices, that is, the Bluetooth device 2 and the Bluetooth device 3 ....

Step 303: Each Bluetooth device determines, according to the device subscription information, whether to feed back the device information to the patrol terminal; that is, if the device subscription information includes a subscription to the device information of the network element device to which it is connected, step 304 is performed; if the device subscription information If the subscription of the device information of the network element device to which it is connected is not included, the Bluetooth device does not need to feed back the device information to the patrol terminal, that is, the process ends.

Step 304: The Bluetooth device sends the collected device information to the patrol terminal.

In this embodiment, the Bluetooth device collects the device information of the network element device connected to it according to the setting mode, and then stores the information through the storage medium included in the device.

Example 3

In this embodiment, the wireless communication device is a Bluetooth device, and after the Bluetooth device is connected to the network element device, the device information of the network element device is collected by using the Bluetooth device. FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the method according to the third embodiment of the present invention. 4, including:

Step 400: The Bluetooth device initiates an acquisition request for acquiring device information to the network element device.

Step 401: The network element device collects the device information according to the acquisition request. In this step, the device information may be collected from the rack management module (CMM) board and the service board. Optionally, the device information in this embodiment may include: Status, and/or device service date, and/or device maintenance records, etc.

Step 402: The network element device feeds back the collected device information to the Bluetooth device. Here, the network element is set. The device can return the collected device information to the Bluetooth device by means of a binary stream; in addition, if the collected device information is large, for example, greater than 1 megabyte (M), the compression process can be performed before returning the collected device information.

Step 403: The Bluetooth device saves the device information of the received network element device. This embodiment may be saved in the flash memory of the Bluetooth device.

In order to reduce the data transmission of the device information between the network element device and the Bluetooth device, for the device information that has not changed, after step 402, only the changed device information may be updated by the following steps;

Step 404: The Bluetooth device sends a subscription device information change notification to the network element device.

Step 405: The network element device actively reports the changed device information to the Bluetooth device when the device information changes according to the device information change notification.

Step 406: The Bluetooth device saves the received changed device information.

Since the flash memory of the Bluetooth device has a certain limitation, if the storage space of the flash memory accounts for a certain proportion of the total storage space, for example, 80%, without increasing the flash memory space and other storage media, the embodiment can also be used for the receiving device. Information is deleted in chronological order.

Example 4

The device information sent by the Bluetooth device to the patrol terminal in this embodiment includes the device identifier and the device location. Therefore, after the network element device is determined according to the device identifier, the location and navigation of the network element device can be performed according to the device location. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a method according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the method includes:

Step 500: The patrol terminal obtains the device identifier and the device location of the network element device according to the device information of the faulty network element device; where the device location may be the device coordinates.

In this embodiment, the navigation information may be directly generated by determining the coordinate position of the inspection terminal, or the path information may be generated by the following manner;

Step 501: The patrol terminal broadcasts the push device identifier to each Bluetooth device in the equipment room, and each Bluetooth device determines whether it is related to the network element device sought by the patrol terminal according to the collected device identifier of the network element device connected to the quarantine terminal. If the matching is matched, step 5020 is performed; if there is no matching, the Bluetooth device broadcasts the device identifier to other Bluetooth devices in step 5030.

Step 5020: The Bluetooth device returns matching success information to the patrol terminal.

Step 5030, the Bluetooth device broadcasts the device identifier to other Bluetooth devices to enable other Bluetooth devices. Continue to match the device ID until the device ID matches successfully.

Step 5011: After the patrol terminal communicates with the matched Bluetooth device, the locating is performed according to the received signal strength, and the path information may be generated by combining the device locations of other network element devices.

Example 5

In this embodiment, the information of the patrol system and the patrol terminal is cleared. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the method according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the method includes:

Step 600: The patrol terminal uploads device information of each network element device to the patrol system.

Step 601: The patrol system compares the device information of the network element device stored in the system with the device information of the uploaded network element device, and determines the difference information to the patrol terminal.

Step 602: The patrol terminal determines whether to synchronize the difference information to the patrol system according to the user analysis. If yes, step 603 is performed; the difference information is synchronized to the patrol system to complete the information synchronization, and the information synchronization result is fed back to the patrol terminal; No, directly end this process.

Step 603: Synchronize the difference information to the patrol system to complete information synchronization.

Step 604: The patrol system feeds back the information synchronization result to the patrol terminal.

When the network element device is faulty, the patrol terminal of the embodiment can also set the query condition, and obtain the device information of the network element device from the patrol system to perform fault analysis.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the steps of the above-described embodiments can be implemented using a computer program flow, which can be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as on a corresponding hardware platform (eg, The system, device, device, device, etc. are executed, and when executed, include one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.

Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented by using an integrated circuit. These steps may be separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or multiple modules or steps may be fabricated into a single integrated circuit module. achieve.

The devices/function modules/functional units in the above embodiments may be implemented by a general-purpose computing device, which may be centralized on a single computing device or distributed over a network of multiple computing devices.

When the device/function module/functional unit in the above embodiment is implemented in the form of a software function module and sold or used as a stand-alone product, it can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The above mentioned computer readable storage medium may be a read only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk or the like.

While the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the described embodiments are merely for the purpose of understanding the invention and are not intended to limit the invention. Any modification and variation in the form and details of the embodiments may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope defined by the appended claims shall prevail.

Industrial applicability

The embodiment of the present invention performs the patrol inspection of the network element device according to the device information fed back by the wireless communication device, avoids the problem of separation of the patrol inspection process, and improves the working efficiency of the patrol inspection. In addition, the path information and the patrol inspection terminal and the patrol inspection are generated. The information synchronization of the system improves the efficiency of the inspection work.

Claims

A method for implementing inspections, including:

The patrol terminal sends the device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device;

The wireless communication device feeds back the device information of the network element device to the patrol terminal according to the device subscription information.
The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: before the patrol terminal sends the device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device, the method further comprising:

Corresponding to each of the network element devices in the equipment room, the corresponding wireless communication device is connected, and the device information of the network element device connected to the wireless communication device is collected by the wireless communication device.
The method of claim 2, wherein the respectively connecting each of the network element devices in the equipment room to the corresponding wireless communication device comprises:

Deploying one of the wireless communication devices separately for each network element device;

The rack of the network element device is connected to the wireless communication device deployed to the network element device.
The method of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the device subscription information comprises:

Device identification of the network element device, and/or device location, and/or device status, and/or device service date, and/or device maintenance record.
The method of claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the wireless communication device is a Bluetooth device or a Zigbee protocol ZigBee device.
The method according to claim 1 or 5, wherein when the device information includes a device location, the method further includes

The patrol terminal generates path information to the network element device according to the device location of the network element device.
The method of claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising:

The patrol terminal performs information exchange with the patrol system of the monitoring room, and synchronizes information about the device information of the network element device.
The method according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein before the patrol terminal sends the device subscription information to the wireless communication device connected to the network element device, the method further includes:

The patrol terminal authenticates the wireless communication device connected to each network element device.
A system for implementing a patrol inspection, comprising: a patrol terminal, and a wireless communication device in one-to-one correspondence with the network element device; wherein

The patrol terminal includes a subscription unit and a receiving unit; wherein

a subscription unit, configured to: send device subscription information to the wireless communication device;

a receiving unit, configured to: receive device information of the network element device fed back by the wireless communication device;

The wireless communication device is connected to the network element device, including a feedback unit,

The feedback unit is configured to: after receiving the subscription information of the device, feed back the device information of the network element device to the inspection terminal according to the subscription information of the device.
The system of claim 9, wherein the wireless communication device further comprises an acquisition unit configured to: collect device information of the network element device connected to the wireless communication device.
The system of claim 8 or 9, wherein the wireless communication device is a Bluetooth device or a ZigBee protocol ZigBee device.
The system according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the patrol terminal further comprises a path generating unit, configured to: generate, according to the device location of the network element device, the device information of the received network element device Path information to the NE device.
The system according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the inspection terminal further comprises a synchronization unit, the system further comprising a patrol system,

The synchronization unit is configured to: perform information exchange with the inspection system of the monitoring room, and synchronize information of the device information of the network element device;

The patrol system is configured to: perform information exchange with the patrol terminal, and synchronize information of the device information of the network element device.
The system according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the patrol terminal further comprises an authentication unit configured to authenticate the wireless communication device connected to each network element device.