The invention discloses a method for automatically monitoring and maintaining an optical cable. The method comprises the following steps of: automatically monitoring the power of the optical cable by a power meter and giving an alarm; when the power of the optical cable is alarmed, determining the alarm level of the
optical power, and driving an
optical time domain reflectometer module to test the optical cable; automatically analyzing whether the optical cable is broken and determining the
breakpoint distance according to a test result; automatically calculating the geographical position of the
breakpoint through optical cable facility information; automatically transmitting a short message to the
mobile phone of an optical cable maintainer; and making an emergency maintenance by the maintainer or a manager. The invention is characterized in that: the method replaces the traditional
polling mode so as to reduce the
electric consumption, greatly improve the cruising capability of a handheld intelligent terminal, and improve the availability of the whole
system; the optical cable is not required to be communicated with a
server frequently so as to greatly save a
general packet radio service (GRPS) flow; and when the optical cable is out of service, the
server immediately transmits the message to the handheld intelligent terminal; and compared with the
polling mode, the method has higher real time.