Patent ID: 7003557

Claim:
A method of racing control in system management including the steps of determining, regarding newly requested operations under the Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) defined by an Open System Interconnection (OSI) model for switching systems, if a managed object instance of CMIP operations now being executed and a managed object instance specified by the newly requested CMIP operations are different or the same and, when the instances are different, allowing execution of the newly requested CMIP operations, and, when the instances are the same, referring to a racing control table formed based on a combination of operation classifications to determine whether it is possible to execute the newly requested CMIP operations, said method further comprising the steps of: Registering the CMIP operations now being executed in an operation registration table: storing information in the racing control table indicating if newly requested CMIP operations may be executed by using combinations of classifications of newly requested and now being executed CMIP operations; and extracting the CMIP operations now being executed from the operation registration table upon newly requested CMIP operations.