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Granted Patent B2
US 12,003,361 · App. 18/179,086 · Granted Jun 4, 2024

Data-powered shipwright for network cloud maintenance

Inventors: Zhiqiang Qian (Holmdel, NJ); Soumyajit Chakraborty (Somerset, NJ)
Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
H04L41/06H04L41/0631H04L41/0661H04L41/122H04L43/20H04L67/10
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Patent No.
US 12,003,361
App. No.
18/179,086
Granted
Jun 4, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system comprising a network cloud configured for a point of deployment containerized environment, a plurality of servers in communication with the network cloud, configured to establishing a point of deployment (POD) in one of the plurality of servers, receiving a determination that the POD is not operational, mapping the topology of the POD, and based on the mapping step, troubleshooting the POD in accordance with a set of rules.

Claims (39)

1. A system, comprising:

a network cloud that is configured for a point of deployment (POD) containerized environment;

a plurality of servers in communication with the network cloud;

an input-output interface;

a processor coupled to the input-output interface wherein the processor is further coupled to a memory, the memory having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising:

mapping a topology of connections to and from a POD that is not operational;

based on the mapping, testing the connections of the POD;

responsive to a first determination of a failure of a connection of the POD, automatically repairing the connection;

responsive to a second determination of failing to automatically repair the connection, generating a trouble ticket; and

responsive to a third determination of no failure of the connections of the POD, troubleshooting a configuration of the POD in accordance with a set of rules.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the network cloud is configured in one of a proxy configuration, a Kubernetics configuration, or an OpenStack configuration.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise correcting errors in the configuration of the POD based on the troubleshooting.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the set of rules comprises verifying the operations of one of a platform, a VM status, a proxy service, and a performance.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the POD is a network POD.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the POD is a compute POD.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the troubleshooting further comprises testing a Kubernetes configuration and an OpenStack configuration.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a physical alarm and a virtual alarm and correlating the virtual alarm to the physical alarm.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise verifying link aggregation interfaces and issuing an alert of P-function/access network failure responsive to verifying the link aggregation interfaces.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein correlating the virtual alarm to the physical alarm comprises correlating a compute node alarm to a C_Leaf alarm, the C_Leaf alarm to OAM switches, the C_Leaf alarm to a R_Leaf alarm, the C_Leaf alarm to a Spine, the C_Leaf alarm to an AGC_Leaf, the AGC_Leaf to network side management switches, the network side management switches to a terminal server, or a combination thereof.

11. A method comprising:

mapping, by a processing system comprising a processor, a topology of connections of a point of deployment (POD) that is not operational in one of a plurality of servers;

based on the mapping, testing, by the processing system, the connections of the POD;

responsive to a first determination of a failure of a connection of the POD, automatically repairing the connection by the processing system;

responsive to a second determination of failing to automatically repair the connection, generating, by the processing system, a trouble ticket and

responsive to a third determination of no failure of the connections of the POD, troubleshooting, by the processing system, a configuration of the POD in accordance with a set of rules.

12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising verifying link aggregate interfaces.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the configuration is one of a proxy configuration, a Kubernetics configuration, or an OpenStack configuration.

14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising correcting errors in the POD based on the troubleshooting.

15. The method of claim 11 , further comprising correlating virtual alarms to physical alarms.

16. A non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

mapping a topology of connections of a point of deployment (POD) that is not operational;

based on the mapping, testing the connections of the POD;

responsive to a first determination of a failure of a connection of the POD, automatically repairing the connection;

responsive to a second determination of failing to automatically repair the connection, generating a trouble ticket; and

responsive to a third determination of no failure of the connections of the POD, troubleshooting a configuration of the POD in accordance with a set of rules.

17. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise issuing an alert of P-function/access network failure responsive to verifying all link aggregation interfaces.

18. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the configuration is one of a proxy configuration, a Kubernetics configuration, or an OpenStack configuration.

19. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise correcting errors in the POD based on the troubleshooting.

20. The non-transitory, machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise correlating virtual alarms to physical alarms.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2023
From: QIAN, ZHIQIANG; CHAKRABORTY, SOUMYAJIT
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 063055/0009 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17107543 · Nov 30, 2020
Related Publication 20230208700A1 · Jun 29, 2023