Patent ID: 6499117
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A method of managing faults on a network including network elements as nodes, comprising:receiving a fault association data having a fault occurrence position identifier and a fault data, said fault occurrence position identifier indicating a fault node in which a fault has occurred, and said fault data indicating a data associated with said fault; determining whether any fault node indication data corresponding to said fault node specified by said fault occurrence position identifier of said fault association data is present in a fault node indication data set in a tree form; generating a fault node indication data based on said fault occurrence position identifier to add to said fault node indication data set in the tree form, when any fault node indication data corresponding to said fault node specified by said fault occurrence position identifier is not present in a fault node indication data set; determining whether any fault indication data corresponding to said fault node indication data is present in a fault indication data set, said fault indication data indicating a type of said fault; generating a fault indication data corresponding to said fault node indication data based on said fault data to add to said fault indication data set, when said fault indication data corresponding to said fault node indication data is not present in said fault indication data set; and displaying said fault node indication data set in the tree form and said fault indication data set in response to said fault association data or a display instruction.