Patent ID: 7809822
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for the automatic generation of workflow models related to interventions on network equipment in a communication network, wherein said network equipment has associated resource proxy agents responsible for managing said equipment, comprising the steps of: providing at least a recording unit; causing said resource proxy agents to send to said at least a recording unit information signals representative of commands sent to the network equipment and events generated by interventions performed on said network equipment; analyzing said information signals sent to said at least a recording unit to produce therefrom workflow models of said interventions performed on said network equipment; storing said information on commands and events recorded during said intervention as respective logs; and scanning said respective logs for approximately matching said respective logs with at least one regular expression describing at least one manual activity or command to be performed on said network equipment, wherein said respective logs comprise a sequence of events and approximately matching comprises locating recurrences of said regular expressions in said sequence of events with a maximum number of matching errors, said matching errors corresponding to insertions deriving from the superposition of groups of events related to different commands or manual activities.