摘要 |
Disclosed are a system, methods, devices and computer program products for re-transmission of management information in a management network for monitoring and controlling a communications system. The management network comprises managers and agents configured as devices on different management levels. Management information is transmitted as event reports between these devices of the management network and event reports transmitted to a manager by an agent (EMS) are temporarily stored by the agent for future re-transmissions, the manager recognizes a loss of one or more event reports, identifies the lost event reports and requests re-transmission of the lost event reports by sending a request to the agent, the agent retrieves the requested event reports from storage and re-transmits them to the requesting manager. |
主权项 |
1. Method for re-transmission of management information in a management network for monitoring and controlling a communications system, comprising:
storing, by an agent (EMS), temporarily event reports transmitted by the agent to a manager (NMS) for future re-transmissions; recognizing, by the manager, a loss of one or more event reports, identifying, by the manager, the lost event reports and requesting, by the manager, re-transmission of the lost event reports by sending a request to the agent; and retrieving, by the agent, the requested event reports from storage and re-transmitting the event reports to the requesting manager. |