Title :
Alarm correlation
Author :
Jakobson, Gabriel ; Weissman, Mark D.
Author_Institution :
GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA, USA
Abstract :
The authors discuss the development of an alarm correlation model and a corresponding software support system that allow efficient specification of alarm correlation by the domain experts themselves. Emphasis is placed on the end-user orientation of IMPACT, the intelligent management platform for alarm correlation tasks which implements the proposed model. The desire was to lower the barrier between the network management application development process and the end user of the application, the network management personnel. IMPACT is a step towards this goal. The proposed alarm correlation model was used for three purposes: intelligent alarm filtering, alarm generalization and fault diagnosis.<>
Keywords :
alarm systems; diagnostic expert systems; telecommunication network management; telecommunications computing; IMPACT; alarm correlation model; alarm correlation specification; alarm generalization; application development process; fault diagnosis; intelligent alarm filtering; intelligent management platform; network management; software support system; Databases; Expert systems; Inference mechanisms; Laboratories; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Monitoring; Power system management; Printers; Prototypes; Trademarks;
Journal_Title :
Network, IEEE
