THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
To Maintain an Alarm Correlator
Veronica Clark
2211891
A thesis submitted in the fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering
November 2000
Supervisor: Aruna Seneviratne
Abstract:
Event correlation is a great aid to the area of network fault
management. It helps to bring order out of the chaos of the
alarms generated by detectors distributed through the network. The
process of figuring out which alarms represent real faults, and
matching these up, is one that needs knowledge of the specific
network. This knowledge is usually obtained over time, as things
go wrong in the network. A correlator needs to be flexible to
take in new knowledge. It is best if the network operator can
directly update the knowledge base, rather than try to explain the
problem to a third party such as a computer programmer. This
thesis looks at some of the ways in which this sort of correlator
can be achieved, particularly in the light of telecommunication
network management.
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