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Updating Inventories with Intelligent Agents

Authors:
Mary Luz Mouronte
Francisco Javier Ramos

Keywords: Transmission Network, NMS, NEM, NE, Expert Agents, CLIPS

Abstract:
This paper describes a procedure to automatically solve misalignments between inventories by means of expert agents. We apply this mechanism to maintain the repository of a N¬etwork Manager System (¬NMS), which allows executing different tasks over a transmission network in a Telecommunication Operator: fulfillment, supervision, etc. The consistency in the N¬MS inventory is maintained by means of connections to corporate systems (repository, planning, and assignment systems) and operations over N¬etwork Element Managers (¬NEMs) regarding to deployment of ¬Network Equipments (N¬Es) or cards, setting up of circuits, paths and physical links. This repository contains data about managed elements, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), Ethernet and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) components, and not managed elements: Radio, Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH), fibers, etc. Sometimes misalignments occur between the corporate inventory and the repository in N¬MS. These misalignments have to be solved by the technicians. Our method incorporates the necessary intelligence to analyze failures and the mechanisms to solve them in expert agents, therefore preventing technicians from checking and solving main errors. It reduces Operating Expenditures (OPEX).

Pages: 131 to 136

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: June 19, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-139-7

Location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Dates: from June 19, 2011 to June 24, 2011