Patent ID: 7257626
Filing Date: 2007-08-14
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A network device management method in a network device management system that includes a network device having a management-information database and a management device having a network-device management tool to manage the network device, comprising: holding, with the management device, a plurality of management-information database structure definition files describing the structure of the management-information database; managing, with the network-device management tool, the management-information database of the network device using the management-information database structure definition files; converting, with the management device, the management-information database structure definition file into a tag-structured file; and managing, with the network device management tool, the management-information database of the network device using the tag-structured management-information database structure definition file, wherein converting the management-information database structure definition file into the tag-structured file includes: a subprocess including reading the management-information database structure definition file to be converted, and acquiring a character string to be converted from the management-information database structure definition file on a per unit of conversion basis, a subprocess including producing a control-table list to acquire position data representing a position, the character string of the unit of conversion, a process function representing what conversion process to perform on the character string of the unit of conversion, and a character string converted from the character string of the unit of conversion, as data required to convert the acquired character string of one unit of conversion into tag-structured data, acquiring, out of these pieces of data, the position data representing the position, the character string of the unit of conversion, and the process function representing what conversion process to perform on the character string of the unit of conversion, and writing, onto the control-table list, the position data representing the position, the character string of the unit of conversion, and the process function representing what conversion process to perform on the character string of the unit of conversion, a subprocess including converting the character string of the unit of conversion into the tag-structured data in accordance with the process function in the control-table list, a subprocess including writing the tag-structured character string obtained as a result of conversion in the control-table list as a post-conversion character string, a subprocess including reading the post-conversion character string on a per unit of conversion basis from the control-table list in response to all character strings of the unit of conversion, and writing the read post-conversion character string in a post-conversion management-information database structure definition file, and a suborocess including storing the tag-structured file in a storage device in the management device.