A Generic Model for Fault Isolation in IntegratedManagement Systems

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Katker;Kurt Geihs

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Distributed systems in enterprises as well astelecommunication environments strongly demand moreautomated fault management. A single fault in thesecomplex systems might cause a huge number of symptomatic error messages and side effects to occur. Thecommon root faults for these symptoms have to beidentified to start fault removal procedures as soon aspossible and to decrease system down-time. This paper presents a methodology for fault isolation inintegrated management systems. A generic model isdescribed that unifies the view of the management systemon the managed environment. It integrates the relevant aspects of network, system, and servicemanagement layers in order to perform integrated faultisolation. Our approach is based on a general dependencygraph model. It captures the information that isrequired to determine the root cause of a fault on theone hand, and the set of fault affected services andcustomers on the other hand. The layered TMNarchitecture serves as an example for an integratedmanagement environment throughout this paper.