Patent ID: 11943098
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An equipment operative in a network, the equipment comprising:
communication circuitry configured to send fault reports to a network node; and
processing circuitry operatively connected to the communication circuitry and configured to:
maintain a NRM Information Object Class (IOC) ManagedElement object comprising one or more NRM IOC ManagedFunction objects, each ManagedFunction object configured to detect, report, and log faults;
maintain for each ManagedFunction object:
a NRM IOC FMControl object comprising attributes indicating:
an administrative state of the FMControl object configured to be set and reset to start and stop, respectively, fault detection, reporting, and logging;
an operational state of the FMControl object; and
a fault report target identifying one or more addresses where the ManagedFunction object is to send the fault reports;

one or more NRM faultTypeList objects, each faultTypeList object comprising attributes specifying types of faults that can be detected and reported by the ManagedFunction object; and
a NRM currentFaultList object comprising current fault information;

verify the types of faults the ManagedFunction object is capable of detecting, reporting, and logging, and set the administrative state attribute of the FMControl object to control the ManagedFunction object to detect faults and send the fault reports;
responsive to a network Management System setting the administrative state attribute of the FMControl object, and if the operational state attribute of the FMControl object is set, detect, report, and log the faults; and
send the fault reports to the one or more addresses specified in the fault report target attribute of the FMControl object.