Concentrated network equipment managing method

Abstract

This invention discloses a cluster management method for network equipments including the manage orders line users to assign a device as the manage equiopment from the network equipments collecting topology information within the specified hop numbers, the manage orders the line user to decide if it sets up an equipment manage cluster or equipments in the cluster and allocate every member equipment including distributing private IP address and its number, then the equipment will carry out the cluster management.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a network management method in a communication system, in particular to a cluster management method of network equipment. Background technique [0002] With the development of communication technology and the gradual popularization of digital network applications, IP address resources are becoming more and more scarce. Because the management of traditional network devices adopts a decentralized management method, the network management of each network device needs to occupy a public Internet (IP) address, which not only occupies a large amount of IP resources, but also has a very heavy daily maintenance workload. Therefore, in the current network environment, there is a need for a network device management method that can uniformly manage various network devices in the same network and occupy less IP addresses. This method is a network device cluster management method. The main feature of this method is that multiple network d...

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Problems solved by technology

Since the above method is based on the equipment manufacturer's private network protocol stack, it has the following insurmountable shortcomings that make it difficult to effectively manage network equipment clusters:

[0003] 1. When performing cluster management on network devices, it is necessary to uniquely identify the network devices to prevent repeated management of one network device. At present, device manufacturers use the device serial number customized by the device manufacturer as the unique identification to achieve This function makes it difficult for devices from different manufacturers to communicate with each other

[0004] 2. Since network device cluster management is implemented on the private protocol stack of the equipment manufacturer, using the manufacturer's private protocol, the implementation methods of the private protocol stack are different, and the content of the private protocol is also different, so that the equipment of each manufacturer is in the same place. It is difficult to achieve intercommunication in cluster management, and it is difficult to meet the needs of telecom operators for unified management of devices in the network

[0005] 3. Traditional network device cluster management is usually only positioned on the Ethernet network, and cannot be competent when there is a mixed network with a non-Ethernet network

[0006] 4. Since the conversion of standard network management messages to private protocols needs to occupy a large amount of processing resources of command network devices, the current cluster management capabilities of network devices are limited and cannot meet the needs of large-scale networking

[0007] 5. Due to the use of a private protocol stack, it is necessary to manage the address of the private protocol stack, which will increase maintenance and development costs

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