Tellabs Operations, Inc.

Debashis Dey

Yi Wang

Gilbert Levesque

Malyadri Jaladanki

Ajaykumar L Upadhyay

Anand K Palanisamy

Mahesh Purushothaman

Prakash Giri

A method and apparatus for collecting statistics data over a communications network using scalable stateless processes are disclosed. A process capable of obtaining statistics data, in one embodiment, detects a delay associated with the availability of statistics data in accordance with predefined lag duration, and subsequently, adds one or more stateless processes to a pool of stateless processes to increase capacity of collecting statistics data. Upon enabling a stateless process to collect statistics data from network element ('NE') in response to a statistics collecting tasks, the statistics data is stored in a database.

Method and apparatus for collecting and storing statistics data from network elements using scalable architecture

An apparatus and method for transferring information in bulk between network devices employing File Transfer Protocol ('FTP') are disclosed. During a network discovery process, an Element Management System ('EMS') initiates a file generation command formatted with Simple Network Management Protocol (&#x201c;SNMP&#x201d;) to one or more network element (&#x201c;NE&#x201d;). After obtaining configuration information from one or more network devices, an NE, in one embodiment, establishes a file containing the configuration information and subsequently stores the file in a storage location. The file formatted in SNMP format is forwarded to EMS suing FTP/SFTP (secure file transfer protocol)/TFTP (trivial file transport protocol).

Methods and apparatus for obtaining network information using file transfer

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