Transmission Network Agent (agent) Software Development Platform To Achieve

Traditional Optical Network Management System's main aim is to manage the basic device and network.Because the Transmission Network Management inconvenient management these veneers effective using traditional methods, the Transmission Network Management Agent is proposed.The procedures of Agent is situated the organizational structure of the Network Element Management, and response all the commands come from the Manager to complete configuration management, alarm management, performance management, maintenance management, security management, and others functions.The basic functions of Agent procedures is the same for different transmission equipment,but the different equipment has some characteristic,such as configuration management. Ideal Agent procedures should be collect common while reserving differences,the part of the same function should be able to reuse,and simultaneously It provides some methods to complete the special functions with the different equipment.But the actual status of the development don't achieve the target.General speaking, the framework of the Agent procedures is very reasonable.Because the realization of the Agent procedures has closely relation with the orders of the interface and equipment,so the code of the procedures almost non-stripping.The reusability and the portability are weaker. So when develop a new product, we must do some duplication work, such as re-coding, debugging, and so on.The duplication waste much time, and influence product quality.Base on the original system, there are some improvement as follows:1. On the basi of the original, Agent platform was proposed. It achieveds the aim that almost all the Agent procedures can reuse in all the different equipment. It provided some guidance, templates and implementation mechanism for the future development of Agent.2. Modularization. The platform of Agent was divided many modules, such as configuration management module, alarm management module, performance management module, maintenance module, security management module, response processing module, and so on.We achieved a breakthrough result through all the Agent team members' practice more than one year.Although the Agent platform is not perfect,it saves both human resource and financial for the development of new products, and saves much precious time for the market.