Patent ID: 6349333
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
An alarm services system for use in a distributed network management system having a management application program that is used by managers to control the system, a management information server and an alarm logging system which receives alarms and stores alarm records representing the alarms in a database, the alarm services system comprising:a platform-independent interface in a client node, the platform-independent interface having remote objects which are accessible to the management application program and which contain method calls used by the management application program to retrieve and view alarm records; an alarm services server running in a server node remote from the client node and having the management information server running therein, the alarm services server having object implementations for the remote objects, a mechanism for receiving notifications from the management information server and an interface for retrieving alarm records from the database; and an object transport mechanism connecting the interface to the alarm services server.