Patent ID: 7020696

Claim:
A method, for managing a telecommunications network, comprising: detecting a log-on request from a user at a network management system (NMS) client, wherein the log-on request includes a user identification; accessing a team session file corresponding to the user identification and including current NMS server connection information; connecting the NMS client to an NMS server using the current NMS server connection information included in the team session file; wherein prior to detecting a log-on request from a user at an NMS client, the method comprises: detecting an initial log-on request from the user at the NMS client: receiving initial NMS server connection information from the user at the NMS client connecting to an NMS server using the initial NMS server connection information; retrieving user profile data corresponding to the user identification from the NMS server; wherein the user profile data includes the current NMS server connection information; saving the current NMS server connection information and the user identification in the team session file; wherein the log-on request is a first log-on request and the NMS server is a first NMS server, and wherein the method further comprises: changing the current NMS server connection information in the user profile data; sending the changed user profile data, including the changed current NMS server connection information, to the NMS client; detecting a second log-on request from the user at the NMS client, wherein the second log-on request includes the user identification; accessing the team session file corresponding to the user identification and including the changed current NMS server connection information; and connecting the NMS client to a second NMS server using the changed current NMS server connection information included in the team session file.