Patent ID: 7231415

Claim:
A method of providing a display of a site in a network management system, comprising: segmenting a cable and assigning positioning markers along a length of the cable for identifying sections of the cable and cable components; storing in a database a series of display frames; assigning each display frame to a positioning marker, each frame graphically descriptive of surroundings within an immediate vicinity of the assigned positioning marker; automatically displaying a notice indicative of an automatically detected cable break and an associated two-dimensional map of a suspected site of the cable break, the suspected site of the cable break automatically located via an algorithm based on historical reliability of measurements taken from a specific test point; automatically generating a trouble ticket responsive to the automatically detected cable break; assigning a relative significance level to each frame based upon the notice indicative of the cable break; selecting a set of frames based on the relative significance level from the series of display frames along the length of the cable related to the suspected site of the cable break; and displaying in sequence the selected set of frames related to the suspected site of the cable break.