SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF COLLECTING AND FORWARDING ALARMS FROM A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ELEMENT

摘要

The present invention discloses a system (10) for, and associated method of, collecting and forwarding alarms from a telecommunications network element (12), the network element (12) being connected to a terminal unit (16) that is fitted with a serial port. The system (10) comprises a data file buffer for temporarily storing the alarms received from the network element (12), a modified serial driver for allowing conventional serial applications to run on the network element (12) and for non-intrusively collecting and forwarding the alarms received from the network element (12) to the data file buffer, a serial buffer reader for reading the data stored in the data file buffer, and a communications network (18) for allowing the alarms stored in the data file buffer to be sent to a remote control station (20).