A method for graphical configuration of ip network

Abstract

The invention discloses an IP network graphical configuration method. The method comprises steps of configuration automatic generation and configuration auditing. The configuration automatic generation step comprises graphical definition configuration, adaptive parameter generation, coverage inspection and script generation. The configuration auditing step comprises normativity auditing and integrity auditing. According to the invention, a graphical interface is adopted for maintaining configuration templates, content configured in the graphical interface is transformed into XML through an XML engine, a user is prevented from directly facing the XML, and the dependence on tool manufacturers is eliminated; in addition, by the application of self-adaption rules, coverage rules and a configuration grouping idea, the period for generating an execution script form the configuration template is substantially shortened, and the accuracy of the script is simultaneously ensured.

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Technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of network management, in particular to a method for graphically configuring an IP network. Background technique [0002] With the increasing business and network IP trend, the network scale is getting bigger and bigger, the network equipment managed is more and more, the technical complexity is also increasing, the technical requirements and burden on the operation and maintenance personnel are also increasing. The maintenance cost of the IT department is increasing, and the risk of network failure is increasing. At present, most of the modification and configuration of network equipment are manually issued instructions, which brings about the problems of incorrect operation and irregularity, and major failures that may bring network paralysis. In order to avoid such risks, some maintenance departments use core backbones to generate configuration templates. General maintenance personnel fill in parameters for s...

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[0002] With the increasing trend of business and network IP, the scale of the network is getting larger and larger, the number of network devices managed is increasing, the technical complexity is also increasing, and the technical requirements and burden on the operation and maintenance personnel are also increasing. The maintenance cost of the IT department is increasing, and the risk of network failure is increasing

At present, most of the modification and configuration of network equipment are manually issued instructions, resulting in incorrect and irregular operations, and major failures that may cause network paralysis

In order to avoid such risks, some maintenance departments use the core backbone to generate configuration templates, and general maintenance personnel then fill in the parameters for specific devices according to the templates, generate final execution scripts and push them into devices. Since the entire process is entirely manual, there are still non-standard implementations. At the same time, it increases the dependence on the technical backbone, and the configuration rules are placed in the brain of the technical backbone

[0003] Although there are some automatic configuration tools that can solve the above manual problems to a certain extent, they all have problems such as poor scalability of configuration templates and a low degree of automation, which makes it difficult to promote such tools and has few application cases. The specific defects are as follows :

[0004] 1. XML engine defect: Automatic configuration tools will define a series of configuration templates to meet various application scenarios. Some better-designed tools save configuration templates in XML to achieve a certain degree of expansion, but how to generate these XML configuration templates It is the problem of existing tools. The XML engine lacks the ability to convert the graphical interface into XML language. As a result, users must master the XML language when maintaining configuration templates stored in XML. At the same time, they must master the tool's definition of XML nodes. The requirements are too high, basically impossible to implement

[0005] 2. The degree of automation is not high: the existing automatic configuration tools cannot automatically generate adaptive parameter values ​​according to the configuration dispatch list when generating scripts, but need to manually extract the live network configuration and manually analyze the parameter values, and do not generate scripts before generating Automatically check the coverage of user-defined parameter values, which may cause the parameters to be defined repeatedly, resulting in serious consequences; the concept of script grouping is not supported, requiring users to do a lot of repetitive data when defining parameters

[0006] 3. The inspection content is incomplete: Existing configuration tools generally have the function of inspecting the configuration of the live network, but the inspection direction only checks whether the existing configuration is standardized, and does not check the completeness, which brings about inspection problems. missing

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