Method and apparatus for collecting and storing statistics data from network elements using scalable architecture

摘要

A method and apparatus for collecting statistics data over a communications network using scalable stateless processes are disclosed. A process capable of obtaining statistics data, in one embodiment, detects a delay associated with the availability of statistics data in accordance with predefined lag duration, and subsequently, adds one or more stateless processes to a pool of stateless processes to increase capacity of collecting statistics data. Upon enabling a stateless process to collect statistics data from network element (“NE”) in response to a statistics collecting tasks, the statistics data is stored in a database.

主权项

1. A method for collecting statistics data over a communications network, comprising:
detecting a delay associated with availability of statistics data collected from a plurality of network elements (“NEs”) in accordance with a predefined time period; determining insufficient processing capacity of stateless processes to complete collecting statistics data from all nodes within predefined time duration in response to the delay; adding one or more additional stateless processes to a pool of stateless processes for scaling up computing power in response to the delay to increase capacity of collecting statistics data; enabling one of the pool of stateless processes to collect statistics data from an NE in response to one of a list of statistics collecting tasks, wherein enabling one of the pool of stateless processes includes fetching the statistics data in response to a data collection manager (“DCM”) task generated by a scheduler; and storing the statistics data in a database.