Patent ID: 7895310

Claim:
A network management system, comprising: a management message storage to register a key of a management message for network management and a key value mapped to the key; a network management message processing unit to transmit the management message comprising the key mapped to the key value; and a network element to receive the management message from the network management message processing unit, to extract the key value mapped to the key from the received management message, to access an information value based on the key value from an Management Information Base (MIB), and to transmit the information value to the network management message processing unit, wherein the management message storage comprises a map configuration comprising at least one of a key to transmit/receive simple network management protocol (SNMP) data, a key to transmit/receive Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) data, a key to transmit/receive Transaction Language (TL1) data, and a key to transmit/receive proprietary data.