Patent ID: 7447767

Claim:
A network management system for managing management data of an object plant of a communications network, the object plant including a management information base containing a value of a field and associated with an MIB definition including a corresponding field and accessible in the network management system, the system comprising: an MIB definition unit that stores MIB definitions corresponding to a plurality of types of plant and including the MIB definition associated with a type of the object plant; and at least one automatic descriptor unit that: designates the object plant when the object plant joins the communication network, wherein the designation of the object plant is performed by using first data configured to designate a plurality of types of plant; designates the MIB definition associated with the type of the object plant using second data; and in the event of receiving data designating the type of the object plant, accesses the corresponding field of the MIB definition associated with the type of the object plant, and then delivers third data representative of the value of the filed contained in the MIB of the object plant.