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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2020
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shohei Nishikawa, Musashino, JP;
Masataka Sato, Musashino, JP;
Kenji Murase, Musashino, JP;
Kimihiko Fukami, Musashino, JP;
Kenichi Tayama, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network management apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage device configured to store information indicating connection relationships between a plurality of communication devices and communication paths in a network configuration and rank information indicating ranks of the plurality of communication devices in the network configuration and a determination unit configured to, when a fault has occurred in a communication device, determine that a communication device influenced by the fault is within a fault influence range based on the information stored in the storage device.