| 摘要 |
The idea of this invention is to control different types of network elements with the same management system by connecting the network elements into the management system using a conversion element. The control messages such as alarms and acknowledgments transmitted by the network element via a modem and being dependent on the network element type are directed to the conversion element. The conversion element converts the message transmitted by the network element into a format understood by the management system and then transmits the converted message to the management system. Correspondingly, the management system transmits the configuration etc. messages to the conversion element in its own format. The conversion element converts the message on the basis of the information about the identity of the receiving network element to the format used by the network element and transmits it forward. For the message format conversion, the conversion element uses a conversion file. The conversion file contains information about the message formats used by the different network elements and how the contents of the fields are to be converted from one format to another. When new types of network elements are added to the network, the conversion file is updated by adding the information required for converting the message format of the new network element type to the format understood by the management system. |
