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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
May. 07, 1998
David Stewart, Frisco, TX (US);
Todd Simonsen, Wylie, TX (US);
Michael R. Buckalew, Celina, TX (US);
Nortel Networks Limited, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for on-line monitoring of a telecommunications network comprised of first and second switches. Data is collected at each of the first and second switches and transferred to a central data processing unit. The collected data for each one of the first and second switches is arranged, at the switch, into a first data subset containing log information for each one of the first and second switches, a second data subset containing configuration data for each one of the first and second switches and a third data subset containing operational management information for each one of the first and second switches. The arranged data is then transferred to the central data processing unit where first and second evaluations of operating conditions for the telecommunications network are generated therefrom. The first evaluation is a network log count produced from the first data subset for the first and second switches while the second evaluation is a call processing-based evaluation produced from the second and third data subsets for the first and second switches. The collected data for the first and second switches, as well as the first and second evaluations of the telecommunications network, is then reviewed from a remote location over the internet.