A MANAGEMENT INTERWORKING UNIT AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A UNIT

摘要

In a process (1) an MIU (10) is produced by creating models (4, 5) of the management interfaces to be interworked. Each model has objects representing managed resources. Domain knowledged (7), an interface (8) and a processor (6) create mappings between equivalent parts of the models. The models and mappings form an ICF (11), which communicates using an internal protocol (i1, i2) with a pair of MCFs (12). The MCFs (12) perform format conversion and communicate with the interworked interfaces.