Alarm facilitator and method for analyzing computer hardware alarms
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a system and method for analyzing hardware alarms in a telecommunications digital cross-connect system. The present invention also relates to a system and method for automating the process of analyzing hardware failures that cause path and parity alarms in a telecommunications digital cross-connect system used in a long distance network.
1. A method for analyzing computer hardware alarms in a digital cross-connect system in a computing environment, the method comprising:
receiving alarm data;
utilizing the alarm data to determine what outbound ports in a digital cross-connect system are in alarm;
determining what inbound ports in the digital cross-connect system are mapped to each outbound port in alarm; and
determining a hardware path between each outbound port in alarm and each inbound port mapped to the outbound port in alarm.
2. A computer readable medium comprising the method of claim 1 .
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
comparing the hardware paths to determine hardware most common to the hardware paths.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the alarm data is a path alarm.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the alarm data is a parity alarm.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
prompting the user to specify the alarm status to be analyzed.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
receiving the alarm status to be analyzed.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the alarm status to be reviewed is one of standing alarms, rolling alarms and long messages.
9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
capturing the alarm log based on the specified alarm status.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
prompting the user to specify the type of alarm to be analyzed.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving the specified type of alarm to be analyzed.
12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the type of alarm to be analyzed is one of parity on the A matrix, parity on the B matrix, path on the A matrix or path on the B matrix.
13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
searching the alarm log for alarm data based on the specified alarm type.
14. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
prompting a user to specify the minimum number of times a piece of hardware must be present in a set of hardware paths to be reported.
15. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the number of times a piece of hardware is present in a set of hardware paths.
16. The method of claim 14 , further comprising:
determining whether a piece of hardware qualifies to be reported based on the specified minimum number of times.
17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the system displays the pieces of hardware present in a set of hardware paths based on user specification.
18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the system displays the pieces of hardware that qualify to be reported based on the specified minimum number of times.
19. The method of claim 1 , wherein the hardware alarms are occurring on a digital cross-connect system.
20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the digital cross-connect system is one of digital cross-connect systems sold under the name of Alcatel® CS1 and Alcatel® CS1L system.
21. A method for analyzing computer hardware alarms in a computing environment, the method comprising:
receiving the specified alarm status to be analyzed;
capturing the alarm log based on the specified alarm status;
receiving the specified type of alarm to be analyzed;
capturing the alarm data from the alarm log based on the specified type of alarm;
utilizing the alarm data to determine what outbound ports in a digital cross-connect system are in alarm;
determining the mapping for each outbound port in alarm;
determining what inbound ports in the digital cross-connect system are mapped to each outbound port in alarm based on the mapping for each outbound port in alarm; and
determining a hardware path between each outbound port in alarm and each inbound port mapped to the outbound port in alarm.
22. A computer-readable medium comprising the method of claim 21 .
23. A system for analyzing computer hardware alarms in a computing environment, the system comprising:
means for utilizing the alarm data to determine what outbound ports in a digital cross-connect system are in alarm;
means for determining what inbound ports in the digital cross-connect system are mapped to each outbound port in alarm; and
means for determining a hardware path between each outbound port in alarm and each inbound port mapped to the outbound port in alarm.
24. An interface for analyzing computer hardware alarms, the interface comprising computer readable program code devices for:
receiving at least one request to determine a list of possible hardware cards in a digital cross-connect system that could be emitting the alarms from a requester;
in response to the request, determining computer hardware in a digital cross-connect system that could be emitting the alarms; and
returning to the requester a list of possible hardware in the digital cross-connect system that could be emitting the alarms.