APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK

摘要

A network manager for a telecommunications network has a communications stack (50) for receiving messages from the telecommunications network relating to the network elements. These messages are supplied to a message processor (52). In the message processor (52), each message is identified and parsed according to a set of rules which are established before the network manager is in operation receiving messages from the network. After each message has been identified and parsed, it is processed according to a second set of rules which can be established and modified while the network manager is in use receiving messages. The second set of rules are established from a set of prototype rules. These rules permit the user to specify a wide range of operations that can be preformed on the messages. For example, messages of specified types can be correlated, other messages can be forwarded to specified destinations, and certain messages can cause further messages to be generated. Messages can be forwarded, for example, to a configuration manager (54) or a fault manager (56) and further messages can be sent to equipment which is external of the network manager.