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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kimihiko Fukami, Musashino, JP;
Masataka Sato, Musashino, JP;
Kenichi Tayama, Musashino, JP;
Kenji Murase, Musashino, JP;
Shingo Horiuchi, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a storage unit configured to store information indicating a correspondence relationship between information objects related to a physical layer and information objects related to a logical layer in a network configuration, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first information object related to a location where a failure occurs in the physical layer of the network configuration from the storage unit, an identification unit configured to identify, as a failure influence range, a second information object associated with the first information object related to the location where the failure occurs, of the information objects related to the logical layer stored in the storage unit, the first information object being acquired by the acquisition unit, and an outputting unit configured to output information indicating the failure influence range identified by the identification unit.