Lucent Technologies Inc.

John Patrick Shea

John Frank Saban

Michael Dean Lilley

Charles Robert Strohm

James Peter Stuht

Timothy Scott Monkman

Robert Earl Chamberlin, Jr

John Cravens Broughton

Eddie Gayle Alexander

A method is provided for monitoring the progress of a software upgrade or retrofit on a telecommunications switch ( ). A report stream of text messages relating to the state of, and events occurring on, the telecommunications switch is received by a server ( ). Predetermined messages are detected in the report stream, including messages indicating entry into a stage of the retrofit, exit from a stage of the retrofit, a failure of a stage of the retrofit, alarms and errors. The time spent in a stage of the retrofit is determined and compared against an expected time ( ). A visual portion ( ) of a user interface on a client ( ) is updated to reflect entry and exit from a stage of the retrofit, and whether the time spent in a stage exceeds an expected time. The user interface reflects occurrences of alarms and errors visually and in some cases audibly.

Method and apparatus for analyzing the progress of a software upgrade on a telecommunications switch

A method is provided for determining whether the immediate state of a telecommunications switch ( ) is adequate for a software upgrade or retrofit. A report stream of text messages relating to the state of, and events occurring on, the telecommunications switch is received ( ) by a server ( ). Predetermined messages are detected in the report stream, including messages indicating hardware errors, alarms and other errors ( ). The predetermined messages have a numerical value associated therewith ( ). The numerical value reflects a probability of failure of a retrofit if the message is detected. As the predetermined messages are detected, their numerical values are accumulated into an accumulated value ( ). If the accumulated value exceeds a threshold, the switch is not fit for the retrofit ( ). The time spent receiving the report stream is determined and compared against an expected time ( ). If the time spent receiving the report stream does not exceed an expected time, then a determination regarding suitability for upgrade may not be reliable ( ). A visual portion ( ) of a user interface on a client ( ) is updated to reflect whether the switch is in an adequate state for a software upgrade. Hierarchical views of a user interface permit a user to view a failing subsystem, failure type, and associated detected messages in an organized manner.

Method and apparatus for determining whether the immediate state of a telecommunications switch is adequate for a software upgrade

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