Patent ID: 7113989
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A Command Line Interface (CLI) framework component of a Network Management System (NMS), the NMS managing a plurality of field installed managed communications network entities of a communications network, each field installed managed communications network entity being represented and modeled by an associated managed object instance stored in a managed objects database associated with the NMS, the CLI framework component comprising: a. a CLI dictionary codifying a plurality of managed communications network entity-specific CLI commands and maintaining at least one mapping between the managed communications network entity-specific CLI commands and a corresponding managed object type; b. a generic processor executing coded logic to: c. a communications module transmitting said sequence of CLI commands to said field installed managed communications network entity to be executed thereon, and conveying the execution results received from said field installed managed communications network entity to the generic processor, wherein a network management and service provisioning solution is provide making abstraction of managed communications network entity types.