MANAGED OBJECT INSTANCE IDENTIFICATION FOR OBJECT MANAGEMENT

摘要

A method of object management comprises assigning attribute information to a managed object instance (MOI) (210), the attribute information at least comprising unchangeable identification information uniquely and persistently identifying the MOI, and changeable parenting information indicating a number of parent MOIs containing the MOI in a hierarchy, the number being zero, one, or greater than one; and in response to detecting a change in the parent MOIs (220), updating the attribute information by changing the parenting information without changing the identification information (230). In this way, the identification information is kept persistent for a MOI and the parenting information is changeable to reflect the real time parenting relationship between the MOIs correctly and dynamically, which thereby simplifies management object management and saves resource in the network management system.