Update of producer-specific hardware information on the producer-independent omc-nmc interface in a mobile radio network

摘要

The invention relates to a method and to communications system devices for updating information in an object-oriented, hierarchical communications system with at least two administrative levels via a producer-independent interface between a producer-independent managing device (NMC) and at least one agent device (OMC) that acquires and processes in a first condition producer-specific hardware information for the purpose of fault administration. The aim of the invention is to provide a method which allows for the processing of fault information at intervals when agent devices do not carry out such tasks. To this end, producer-specific hardware information is transmitted via the interface in a producer-independent format to the managing device (NMC). This transmission can proceed especially within a new producer-independent object class (equipment info) that is defined for retrieving an equipment information via the interface that contains as the information elements an action request (scanEquipment) of the managing device (NMC) to the agent device (OMC) to request the transfer of the hardware information, and an attribute value change transfer for the element condition (boardStatus).