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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To appropriately monitor a transmission device in an optical transmission system. A monitoring apparatusmonitors a plurality of transmission deviceshaving different specifications. The monitoring apparatusincludes a monitoring unitthat monitors whether a failure occurrence or failure recovery is present in the plurality of transmission devices, an analyzing unitthat determines whether the failure occurrence or the failure recovery continues for a predetermined period, in a case where the failure occurrence or the failure recovery is present in the plurality of transmission devices, a control unitthat identifies a cause of the failure, using a plurality of pieces of warning information received from the plurality of transmission devicesonly in a case where the failure occurrence continues for the predetermined period, and a notifying unitthat notifies a higher-level monitoring apparatus of warning information corresponding to the cause of the failure.