Device and method for automatically determining a network element for replacing a failung network element

摘要

A device (D), intended for working for at least one network (N), comprises i) an ontology agent (OA) storing at least one ontology defining representations of network elements and relations between these network elements, and ii) a processing means (PM) arranged, when a status of a network element indicates that the latter is failing, for accessing to the ontology agent (OA) to get the representation of the failing network element and relations between this failing network element and at least one other network element, then for determining for each of these other network elements a parameter value representative of a functional likeness with the failing network element from their respective ontology representations, and for determining amongst the other network elements the one offering the parameter value representative of the greatest functional likeness in order to propose to replace the failing network element with this determined network element.