NETWORK SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
VISUALAGENT	OBJECTIVE SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS, INC.	35 Iron Point Circle, Suite 250 Folsom CA 95630	Network and service level management and operations support software;VISUAL AGENT;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A method for identifying service critical faults in a communications network and a network management system employing the method are provided. A service provisioning tool associated with the network management system and operating in accordance with the method, performs operations on a multitude of managed entity instances stored in a containment hierarchy associated with the network management system, the managed entity instances corresponding to managed field installed equipment. Received alarm information is used to ascribe operational states to corresponding managed entities in the containment hierarchy. Operating in accordance with the presented method, the service provisioning tool inspects low-level managed entities in the containment hierarchy and, if each managed entity of a group of low-level managed entities which provide a unitary function is "unavailable", then the operational state of a corresponding high-level managed entity is set to the "unavailable" state. Service critical failures are distinctly pointed out from the multitude of reported failures. Benefits are derived from an improved failure reporting enabling fault management to address service critical failures on a priority basis.