Cisco Technology, Inc.

Anisur Rahman

Weimin Du

Raja Banerjee

Sunil Gharat

A method of suppressing a side-effect alarm in a network management system that includes a plurality of managed network elements, wherein the side-effect alarm arrives at the network management system before a triggering alarm, the method comprising the steps of creating and storing state information for each of the managed network elements, wherein the state information comprises a current connection state value and a parent state value; receiving segment alarm information that identifies a first arriving alarm relating to a segment of the connection; determining a new connection state value to which the connection transitions as a result of the segment alarm identified in the segment alarm information and based on the current connection state value; selectively suppressing or forwarding an alarm reflecting the new connection state value based on the parent state value, a self state transition value, and a secondary state transition value.

System and method for suppressing out-of-order side-effect alarms in heterogenoeus integrated wide area data and telecommunication networks

A method and apparatus for suppressing side effect alarms in a network communication system, based on state change and the alarm reporting history of logical managed objects, such as user connections, is disclosed. State information is maintained for each of a plurality of interested logical managed objects that represent user connections, comprising parent object state, primary state, and secondary state. The parent object state is OK if all parent objects (lines, ports, etc.) of the connection are functioning properly, and FAIL otherwise. The primary connection state is OK if the entire connection is functioning properly. The secondary state or A-bit state is FAIL if a failure at one subnetwork is detected by other subnetworks. The system also maintains information indicating the last generated alarm for each interested logical managed object. A new state of each interested logical managed object is computed when alarms on its containing physical managed objects or associating logical managed objects have been reported. The method then decides whether to report or suppress the alarms, based on a lookup operation using a decision table. If an alarm is suspected of being a side-effect alarm, based on selected conditions, alarm information is placed in a queue to await the arrival of a second, related alarm that confirms that the first alarm was a side-effect alarm, and the side-effect alarm is then suppressed.

System and method for suppressing side-effect alarms in heterogenoeus integrated wide area data and telecommunication networks

A method and apparatus for suppressing side effect alarms in a network communication system that arrive out of order, based on state change and the alarm reporting history of logical managed objects, such as user connections, is disclosed. State information is maintained for each of a plurality of interested logical managed objects that represent user connections, comprising parent object state, primary state, and secondary state. The parent object state is OK if all parent objects (lines, ports, etc.) of the connection are functioning properly, and FAIL otherwise. The primary connection state is OK if the entire connection is functioning properly. The secondary state or A-bit state is FAIL if a failure at one subnetwork is detected by other subnetworks. The system also maintains information indicating the last generated alarm for each interested logical managed object. A new state of each interested logical managed object is computed when alarms on its containing physical managed objects or associating logical managed objects have been reported. The method then decides whether to report or suppress the alarms, based on a lookup operation using a decision table. If an alarm is suspected of being a side-effect alarm, based on selected conditions, alarm information is placed in a queue to await the arrival of a second, related alarm that confirms that the first alarm was a side-effect alarm, and the side-effect alarm is then suppressed.

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Anisur Rahman