METHOD OF DEFINING THRESHOLD CROSSING ALERT PROFILES FOR NETWORK ELEMENT PERFORMANCE MONITORING

摘要

For use with a Network Element (NE) in a telecommunication network, the NE having a logical Management Information Base (MIB) (4) resident therein, the MIB comprising: (a) one or more Performance Management (PM) Group managed entities (5) each having at least one PM Counter attribute, and a pointer; and (b) a Threshold Crossing Alert (TCA) profile managed entity (6), each instance thereof having at least one PM Counter attribute, and an associated threshold value, where an instance of a PM Group managed entity points to an instance of said TCA profile managed entity whose said at least one PM Counter attribute match those of said PM Group managed entity instance whereupon each of whose said at least one PM Counter attribute is correspondingly assigned a threshold value from said TCA profile managed entity instance. 1592 ב' באב התשס" ג - July 31, 2003