WO2022142931A1

WO2022142931A1 - Network device inspection method, apparatus, and device, and storage medium

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Publication number: WO2022142931A1
Application number: PCT/CN2021/133833
Authority: WO
Inventors: 丁一
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2020-12-28
Filing date: 2021-11-29
Publication date: 2022-07-07
Also published as: CN114760180A

Abstract

Disclosed in the present disclosure are a network device inspection method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: an inspection tool determines, according to an inspection task configured by a user, a data acquisition script and a data analysis script that are required for executing an inspection task; the inspection tool, by means of running the data acquisition script, performs data acquisition on various types of network device information in the inspection task, acquires inspection data in different formats for various types of network devices, and performs format conversion on the inspection data in different formats to obtain inspection data in a uniform format; and the inspection tool, by means of running the data analysis script, analyzes and evaluates the inspection data in the uniform format to obtain evaluation results for various types of network devices.

Description

Inspection method, device, device and storage medium for network equipment

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present disclosure claims to enjoy the priority of Chinese patent application CN202011584818.4 filed on December 28, 2020 and entitled "An Inspection Method, Device, Device and Storage Medium for Network Equipment", the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference Public.

technical field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to a method, device, device and storage medium for inspection of network equipment.

Background technique

With the rapid development of communication networks, the scale and capacity of communication networks are increasing, the types and numbers of network elements managed by operators are rapidly expanding, and networking is becoming more and more complex. In the operator's network, equipment of different equipment manufacturers needs to be connected frequently to jointly complete the bearer work of various services required by the operator, maintenance and management of various equipment of various manufacturers, such as network-level inspection functions, network element Equipment health check, fault information collection, and equipment fault diagnosis functions require a unified O&M platform and O&M tools to collect equipment data and conduct system analysis as a whole.

At present, the equipment on the network is inspected, and there are already automated inspection tools to support the function of device information collection and analysis. However, due to the obvious differences in the collection interfaces and data structure models of equipment from different manufacturers, it is difficult for inspection tools to collect and analyze the information of various types of equipment on the network in a unified manner, resulting in the existence of several maintenance tools on a network. Information collection and analysis of devices in certain areas are carried out separately, and the analysis and evaluation results of the entire network cannot be given as a whole. In addition, the expansion of new equipment by operators will bring new acquisition methods and adjustment of analysis algorithms, which directly leads to the upgrading and updating of various deployed maintenance tools involving this equipment, and the maintenance work is complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present disclosure proposes an inspection method, device, device and storage medium for network equipment, aiming at realizing unified collection, storage and analysis of data of different devices from different manufacturers, and improving the inspection efficiency of equipment in the entire network. It can greatly save network maintenance costs.

In one aspect, the present disclosure provides an inspection method for network equipment, including: an inspection tool determines a data collection script and a data analysis script required to perform the inspection task according to an inspection task configured by a user; The data collection script collects data from various network device information in the inspection task, obtains inspection data in different formats of various network devices, and converts the inspection data in different formats to obtain inspection data in a unified format; The inspection tool analyzes and evaluates the inspection data in a unified format by running the data analysis script, and obtains the evaluation results of various network devices.

In another aspect, the present disclosure provides an inspection device for network equipment, comprising: a determination module configured to determine a data collection script and a data analysis script required to perform the inspection task according to the inspection task configured by the user; the data collection module It is configured to collect data from various network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, obtain inspection data of various network devices in different formats, and convert the inspection data in different formats to obtain a unified format. Inspection data; the analysis and evaluation module is configured to analyze and evaluate the inspection data in a unified format by running a data analysis script to obtain evaluation results of various network devices.

In another aspect, the present disclosure also proposes an inspection device for a network device, the device includes a memory, a processor, a program stored in the memory and running on the processor, and a connection between the processor and the memory. A data bus for communication, and the program implements the steps of the aforementioned method when executed by the processor.

In another aspect, the present disclosure also provides a storage medium for computer-readable storage, the storage medium stores one or more programs, and the one or more programs can be executed by one or more processors to implement the aforementioned method A step of.

Description of drawings

1 is a flowchart of a method for inspection of network equipment provided by the present disclosure;

2 is a schematic diagram of an inspection device for network equipment provided by the present disclosure;

3 is a structural block diagram of a unified inspection system for different device networking scenarios according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a unified inspection method for different device networking scenarios according to the present disclosure.

Detailed ways

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are only used to explain the present disclosure, but not to limit the present disclosure.

In the ensuing description, suffixes such as 'module', 'component' or 'unit' used to represent elements are used only to facilitate the description of the present disclosure, and have no specific meaning per se. Thus, "module", "component" or "unit" may be used interchangeably.

Example 1

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for inspection of network devices provided by the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 1 , the method includes the following steps S101 to S103.

Step S101: The inspection tool determines, according to the inspection task configured by the user, a data collection script and a data analysis script required to perform the inspection task.

Step S102: The inspection tool collects data from various network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, obtains inspection data of various network devices in different formats, and converts the inspection data in different formats to formats. Obtain inspection data in a unified format.

Step S103: The inspection tool analyzes and evaluates the inspection data in a unified format by running the data analysis script, and obtains evaluation results of various network devices.

The inspection task includes the equipment network elements to be inspected and the content to be inspected; the data collection script includes a hardware resource information collection script and a device operation data collection script.

The present disclosure further includes: the inspection tool determines a hardware resource information collection script corresponding to the to-be-inspected device information according to the to-be-inspected device information initially configured by the user; the inspection tool collects the to-be-inspected by running the hardware resource information collection script The hardware resource information of each equipment network element is displayed, and the collected hardware resource information of each equipment network element is displayed for the user to select hardware according to the hardware resource information when configuring the inspection task.

In an exemplary embodiment, the inspection tool determines the data collection script and the data analysis script required to perform the inspection task according to the inspection task configured by the user, including: the inspection tool according to the equipment to be inspected in the inspection task. Network element and content to be inspected, select the device associated with the device network element to be inspected and the content to be inspected to run the data collection script and data analysis script.

In an exemplary embodiment, before the inspection tool performs data collection on various types of network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, the inspection tool further includes: the inspection tool determines, according to the device operation data collection script, all the network devices that need to be collected. Register information; the inspection tool judges whether each register information that needs to be collected has been saved in the database; when it is judged that the register information has not been saved in the database, the inspection tool collects data from the register information by running the data collection script of the running device .

In an exemplary embodiment, before the inspection tool performs data collection on various types of network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, the inspection tool further includes: the inspection tool determines, according to the device operation data collection script, all the network devices that need to be collected. Register information; the inspection tool determines whether real-time collection is required for each register information that needs to be collected; when it is determined that the register information needs to be collected in real time, the inspection tool runs the data collection script on the running device to collect data for the register information.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an inspection device for network equipment provided by the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 2 , it includes: a determination module 201 , a data collection module 202 , and an analysis and evaluation module 203 .

Wherein, the determining module 201 is configured to determine the data collection script and data analysis script required to perform the inspection task according to the inspection task configured by the user; Data collection is performed on network device information to obtain inspection data of various network devices in different formats, and format conversion of the inspection data in different formats is performed to obtain inspection data in a unified format; the analysis and evaluation module 203 is configured to analyze the script by running the data. Analyze and evaluate the inspection data in a unified format to obtain the evaluation results of various network devices.

The present disclosure also proposes an inspection device for a network device, the device includes a memory, a processor, a program stored in the memory and running on the processor, and a data bus for realizing connection and communication between the processor and the memory , the steps of the foregoing method are implemented when the program is executed by the processor.

The present disclosure provides a storage medium for computer-readable storage, the storage medium stores one or more programs, and the one or more programs can be executed by one or more processors to implement the steps of the aforementioned methods.

FIG. 3 is a structural block diagram of a unified inspection system for different device networking scenarios of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 3, the inspection tool includes a general control management module, a WEB server module, a function script management module and a device information management module. module.

The general control management module is configured to comprehensively schedule and control the entire inspection system, including providing external user web access services, providing users with the function of customizing inspection items, and extracting corresponding analysis from the control function script management module according to the customized inspection items. and collection scripts, control and trigger various types of inspection scripts to run, and finally generate reports on inspection and analysis results.

The WEB server module is configured to provide the user web interface to access and control the functions of inspection equipment. Users can configure the network elements to be inspected, customize and execute inspection tasks, and add and delete inspection-related scripts through the web interface.

The function script management module is configured to manage scripts related to inspection, including adding, deleting and running scripts. The scripts are divided into data acquisition scripts and data analysis scripts.

Among them, the data acquisition script collects data from a specific device through a specific acquisition interface, and transmits the acquired device data to the device information management module for storage in a unified format, so as to realize the corresponding data acquisition for various devices and achieve a unified collection effect. The data collection script includes hardware resource information collection script and equipment operation data collection script. The hardware resource information collection script is configured to obtain hardware resources in the device. When creating an inspection task, users can specify to inspect specific hardware. The device operation data collection script is configured to collect the data of the specific hardware in the running process, which is the basic data source of the data analysis script.

Among them, the data analysis script obtains the inspection result data of the unified data model of the equipment that has been collected from the equipment information management module, and then makes an overall analysis of the inspection result data, evaluates the potential risks and unqualified items of the equipment, and gives rectification. comments and steps. Because it is based on a unified data model, the analysis script does not need to pay attention to the data format differences of various devices during processing. This difference is solved by converting the device information management module into a unified data model format. Therefore, the analysis script can comprehensively analyze the data of different devices. and evaluation, so as to achieve the effect of unified analysis.

The device information management module is configured to convert and store the inspection results of each device obtained by the data collection script to a unified data model, so as to provide a unified data model format for the analysis script. The equipment information management module includes a data management module and a data storage module.

Among them, the data management module is connected with the function script management module, which can convert the collected data of different devices with different structures, and then send it to the data storage module for storage, and at the same time, the stored data can be provided to the data analysis script for analysis. .

The data storage module is configured to store the inspection data of the unified data model as the basic data used by the data analysis script.

The technical solution of the present disclosure includes the following steps 1 to 5.

1. The web interface is convenient for users to log in to the tool through a mobile phone or PC browser to perform equipment inspection functions.

2. Unified collection function, which is easy to be compatible and extended to equipment network elements with different collection interfaces:

a) According to the difference of the collection interface of different devices, the specified data collection function of various devices can be realized through the function collection script customized by the user, and the detailed classification of the collected data of the script can avoid the collection of useless data for the equipment and reduce the equipment cost. runtime burden.

b) At the same time, for new equipment scenarios in the network, new equipment collection scripts can be added directly through the web interface, without the need to upgrade tool programs, and quickly meet the data collection inspection requirements of new equipment.

3. The unified data model storage function brings convenience to the centralized analysis of each device in the network:

a) Aiming at the difference of the data structure models collected by different devices, the inspection result data in different formats of various devices is converted into a unified network element information format for unified storage, so that the network can be directly analyzed in the data analysis process. Comprehensive analysis of the information of each device in the system can realize the functions of centralized analysis and centralized evaluation of equipment with different data structures of different manufacturers.

b) In addition, for the equipment inspection result data used in the analysis process of various inspection items, the data that has been collected and stored before can be used first (the user can also configure to use real-time collection data) to reduce the frequency of tools to collect equipment, Therefore, the impact of the collection action on the running equipment of the existing network is minimized.

4. Unified analysis function, which can perform network-level inspection and simplify the update and expansion of analysis algorithms:

a) For the unified network element information that has been converted before, a special service function analysis script is used to analyze the inspection content of the unified data model, and the dependence on the specific data format of different devices is shielded.

b) At the same time, it is easier to upgrade the analysis algorithm and add and improve the analysis scene by adding a new analysis script through the web interface, which has strong compatibility and good scalability.

5. According to the inspection content, tasks can be flexibly created to minimize the impact of collection actions on equipment:

a) For specific inspection functions, the tool can create specific inspection tasks, and by adding several specific scene analysis scripts and several specific data collection scripts, it is possible to collect relevant data from devices based on specific inspection functions and Unified Data Model cache.

b) In the subsequent centralized analysis process, the cached equipment inspection data is preferentially used, so as to avoid repeated collection of redundant data of the equipment, while improving the collection performance of the tool, reduce the query action of the equipment as much as possible, Reduce the burden during the operation of the device, thereby avoiding the impact on the services carried by the device.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a unified inspection method for different device networking scenarios according to the present disclosure, as shown in FIG. 4 , including steps 401 to 406 .

Step 401: The user accesses the tool and initializes the hardware resource data of the device.

Users can access the tool web interface through a mobile phone or PC browser, and initially configure basic information such as the device type and ip to be inspected. The hardware resource information data of the network element is converted into a unified data model and stored in the data storage module, and the hardware resource information is presented to the user through the web interface.

Step 402: Select a specified device and create a required inspection task.

The master control management module obtains the list of each data analysis script through the function script management module. The list corresponds to all the inspection item functions supported by the tool, and these functions are also presented to the user through the web interface.

When the user formulates the required inspection task, he needs to confirm the equipment network element to be inspected and the inspection content. The tool selects various inspection analysis scripts and device operation data collection scripts according to the association between the device and the inspection content. At the same time, the user can specify the device. Whether each collection item of the collection script needs to be collected in real time. In addition, the analysis script can determine which unified data model of the device needs to be obtained for analysis. Specific steps are as follows:

First select the required inspection item function, the tool's master control management module will transmit the task information specified by the user to the function script management module, and automatically associate the collection script and analysis script required by the task.

After selecting all equipment hardware resources to be inspected, the general control management module transmits the equipment resource information to the equipment information management module, and automatically associates the unified data model of the equipment resources.

You can configure whether the various collection points of this inspection item need real-time collection. The real-time collection can directly query the equipment, and the non-real-time collection can use the data that has been saved by the equipment information management module (data storage module).

Finally, the inspection task can be started.

Step 403: the update process of the inspection script (optional).

Before performing the inspection task, for the following scenarios: 1) A new device is added and the inspection tool does not support data collection of this device; 2) The inspection algorithm or inspection item has been updated and optimized, and the script can be executed through the web interface at this time. Import to solve the above scenario;

●Import the collection script corresponding to the new device to solve the problem that the current inspection tool cannot collect the data of this device

●Import new analysis scripts to support new inspection items or new inspection algorithms.

Step 404: Data collection related to the inspection task.

After starting the inspection task, the data collection process is as follows:

The function script management module counts the types of all equipment to be inspected, defines the respective operation data collection scripts, and determines all the information that needs to be collected uniformly for this inspection.

The function script management module confirms whether all the equipment information items that need to be collected have been collected and stored in the data storage module through data conversion through the equipment information management module. If it is collected by the device, it means that the collected information item is a collected item; if it has not been stored, or it has been stored but the user configuration needs to be collected by the device in real time, it means that the collected information item is an uncollected item.

For all the information items whose identification bits are not selected, the function script management module runs the collection scripts of different devices, and collects the data uniformly to the corresponding device.

The collection results of different data formats of all devices are transmitted to the device information management module (data management module + data storage module) for conversion and storage of a unified data model.

Step 405: Analyze and evaluate the inspection result data.

The task obtains the stored data of various devices in the network in a unified format through the device information management module, and then runs the function analysis script corresponding to the inspection item to conduct a unified and comprehensive analysis of the data of various devices, and evaluates each device in the network. is in normal working condition.

Optional process: Before analyzing the unified format data of various devices, when the user needs to update the function analysis script for some inspection items, the user can upload the updated function analysis script through the web page and save it to the function script In the management module, after starting the inspection task in this way, the tool will call the optimized analysis algorithm to analyze and evaluate the collected data of the device.

In this process, the collected data is analyzed based on the unified data model of multiple network element devices, and the analysis scripts are processed in a unified manner, so that the network-level inspection function is realized without perceiving the difference of specific device types.

Step 406: Generate an inspection report.

According to the analysis and evaluation of specific inspection items, output the analysis and evaluation results of the overall network and the corresponding operation guidance suggestions, so that users can evaluate and maintain the network as a whole.

The present disclosure will be further described below with specific embodiments. The embodiment is to introduce a user to perform an optical module inspection function of a network element device.

(1) Initialize basic data of network elements that need to be inspected

After starting the tool, the user configures the device type, ip address, login user password and other information to be inspected through the web access tool and transmits it to the master control management module. The master control management module calls the collection script corresponding to the device type through the function script management module , to obtain resource data such as hardware boards, ports, and modules of the network element. These data are converted into a unified network element resource format through the data management module and stored in the data storage module. At the same time, various hardware information of the network element is stored through the web interface. presented to the user.

(2) Select the specified equipment and create the required inspection tasks

When the user formulates the required inspection task, the following steps 21 to 24 are included.

Step 21) First select the optical module inspection function required this time, the tool's master control management module will transmit the optical module inspection task information to the function script management module, and automatically associate the corresponding modules in various devices required by the task register. collection scripts and corresponding health status analysis scripts of various modules.

Step 22) Select resources such as all boards to be inspected and each module type, and the master control management module transmits the device resource information to the device information management module, and automatically associates the unified data model of the optical module resources of different devices.

Step 23) Configure whether real-time collection is required for each register collection point of the current optical module inspection item. This operation requires real-time collection, so the collection script runs and directly goes to the device to query the relevant data.

Step 24) Start the inspection task.

(3) Data collection related to inspection tasks

After the inspection task is started, the data collection process includes the following steps 31 to 34 .

Step 31) The function script management module counts various types of operation data collection scripts corresponding to the module types of different devices, and determines all register information that needs to be collected corresponding to each module.

Step 32) The function script management module, through the device information management module, needs to confirm whether the register values that all modules need to collect have been collected, and whether they are converted into the data storage module by the unified data model:

If it has been stored, and the user configuration of this collection information does not require real-time collection from the device, the collection information item is identified as a collected item; if it has not been stored, or it has been stored but the user configuration needs to be collected from the device in real time, it means this item has been collected. The collected information items are uncollected items.

Step 33) For the module register information items that are not selected for all identification bits, the function script management module runs the collection script for the respective equipment corresponding to the module type under each equipment type, and carries out register data collection on each single board of each equipment. .

Step 34) The collected data results of each module of the class of equipment in different formats are transmitted to the equipment information management module (data management module + data storage module) for conversion and storage of the unified model structure of the optical module data.

(4) Analysis and evaluation of inspection results data

The task obtains the stored register data of the unified structure of each module in the network through the device information management module, and then runs the optical module inspection and analysis script for analysis to evaluate whether each optical module in the network is in a normal working state, and whether the modules are in a normal working state. Whether the connection status is normal.

The optical module manufacturer has optimized the module health check algorithm and updated the inspection analysis script of this module. The user uploads the updated function analysis script through the web page, saves it to the function script management module, and then starts the module inspection task, the tool will The data of this module is analyzed and evaluated with the optimized analysis algorithm.

(5) Generation of inspection reports.

According to the analysis and evaluation of specific inspection items, the analysis and evaluation results of all optical modules in the overall network and corresponding operation guidance suggestions are output, so that users can evaluate and maintain the optical modules in the network as a whole.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or some of the steps in the methods disclosed above, functional modules/units in the systems, and devices can be implemented as software, firmware, hardware, and appropriate combinations thereof.

The present disclosure proposes a method, device, device and storage medium for inspection of network equipment, which are based on a web operation interface, through the collection of scripts, analysis of scripts and data normalization, to realize the data of different manufacturers and different devices. Unified collection, unified storage, and unified analysis improve the efficiency of equipment inspection across the entire network, which can greatly save network maintenance costs.

In a hardware implementation, the division between functional modules/units mentioned in the above description does not necessarily correspond to the division of physical components; for example, one physical component may have multiple functions, or one function or step may be composed of several physical components Components execute cooperatively. Some or all physical components may be implemented as software executed by a processor, such as a central processing unit, digital signal processor or microprocessor, or as hardware, or as an integrated circuit, such as an application specific integrated circuit . Such software may be distributed on computer-readable media, which may include computer storage media (or non-transitory media) and communication media (or transitory media). As is known to those of ordinary skill in the art, the term computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data flexible, removable and non-removable media. Computer storage media include, but are not limited to, RAM, ROM, EEPROM, flash memory or other memory technology, CD-ROM, digital versatile disk (DVD) or other optical disk storage, magnetic cartridges, magnetic tape, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or may Any other medium used to store desired information and which can be accessed by a computer. In addition, communication media typically embodies computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave or other transport mechanism, and can include any information delivery media, as is well known to those of ordinary skill in the art .

The preferred embodiments of the present disclosure have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the scope of the right of the present disclosure is not thereby limited. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the present disclosure should fall within the right scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

An inspection method for network equipment, comprising:

The inspection tool determines, according to the inspection task configured by the user, the data collection script and the data analysis script required to perform the inspection task;

The inspection tool collects data from various network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, obtains inspection data of the various types of network devices in different formats, and stores the inspection data in the different formats. Format conversion of data to obtain inspection data in a unified format;

The inspection tool analyzes and evaluates the inspection data in the unified format by running the data analysis script, and obtains evaluation results of the various network devices.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the inspection task includes equipment network elements to be inspected and content to be inspected; the data collection script includes a hardware resource information collection script and a device operation data collection script.
The method of claim 2, further comprising:

The inspection tool determines a hardware resource information collection script corresponding to the to-be-inspected device information according to the to-be-inspected device information initially configured by the user;

The inspection tool collects the hardware resource information of each device network element to be inspected by running the hardware resource information collection script, and displays the collected hardware resource information of each device network element for the user to check. When configuring the inspection task, hardware selection is performed according to the hardware resource information.
The method according to claim 2, wherein, according to the inspection task configured by the user, the inspection tool determines the data collection script and the data analysis script required to perform the inspection task comprising:

The inspection tool selects a device operation data collection script associated with the device network element to be inspected and the content to be inspected according to the device network element to be inspected and the content to be inspected in the inspection task and data analysis scripts.
The method according to claim 4, wherein before the inspection tool performs data collection on various types of network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, it further comprises:

The inspection tool determines all the register information that needs to be collected according to the device operation data collection script;

The inspection tool judges whether each register information to be collected has been saved in the database;

When it is determined that the register information has not been saved in the database, the inspection tool performs data collection on the register information by running the device running data collection script.
The method according to claim 4, wherein, before the inspection tool performs data collection on various types of network device information in the inspection task by running the data collection script, it also includes:

The inspection tool determines all the register information that needs to be collected according to the device operation data collection script;

The inspection tool judges whether each register information to be collected needs to be collected in real time;

When it is determined that the register information needs to be collected in real time, the inspection tool performs data collection on the register information by running the device operation data collection script.
An inspection device for network equipment, comprising:

a determination module, configured to determine, according to the inspection task configured by the user, the data collection script and the data analysis script required to perform the inspection task;

The data acquisition module is configured to perform data acquisition on various types of network device information in the inspection task by running the data acquisition script, acquire inspection data of the various types of network devices in different formats, and store the different formats of the inspection data. Format conversion of the inspection data to obtain inspection data in a unified format;

The analysis and evaluation module is configured to analyze and evaluate the inspection data in the unified format by running the data analysis script to obtain evaluation results of the various network devices.
The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the inspection task includes equipment network elements to be inspected and content to be inspected; the data collection script includes a hardware resource information collection script and a device operation data collection script.
An inspection device of a network device, wherein the device includes a memory, a processor, a program stored on the memory and running on the processor, and a program for realizing the relationship between the processor and the memory. A data bus connecting and communicating between the two devices, when the program is executed by the processor, implements the steps of the network device inspection method according to any one of claims 1-6.
A storage medium for computer-readable storage, wherein the storage medium stores one or more programs that can be executed by one or more processors to implement claims 1 to 6 The steps of any one of the inspection methods for network devices.