WO2007012232A1 - A system for managing the terminal product and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for managing the terminal product and the method thereof, includes the management media, the management core unit and the function module unit, the management media sends the operation command to the management core unit, the management core unit and sender of the command analyze the attribute of the command to determine the process type of the command, the management core unit collects the feedback information of the command from all the function modules and responds to the corresponding management media. This invention can improve the development efficiency greatly and reduce the development cost, it can give the user a unitive and amiable feeling so as to make the old user can easily accept the new management media.

Description

 Management system and method for terminal products

Technical field

 The present invention relates to a management system and method, and more particularly to a management system and method for a terminal product.

Background technique

 With the rapid development of the Internet (Internet) network, more and more people enjoy the convenience brought by the network. Terminal network products (hereinafter referred to as terminal products) are gradually entering the family. ADSL (Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Loop, asymmetric) Digital digital lines) broadband access equipment, home integrated access gateways, network TV set-top boxes, network videophone equipment and other terminal products have brought about the possibility of networking of home facilities, terminal products play between home facilities and Internet services Access and bridge function.

 In order to make the product more practical and flexible, the terminal products provide management functions. These management contents include: configuration of product functions, provision of special services, acquisition of dynamic information, upgrade of versions, diagnosis of faults, and so on. Due to its large-scale and large-scale use, terminal products spread over thousands of households pose challenges to the engineering maintenance of equipment and the unified management control of operating units.

 At present, most terminal products provide remote management control methods. These remote management methods include: Telnet remote login device, managed by CLI command line; WEB browser remote web access, managed through friendly interface interaction The SNMP simple network management protocol is managed in a way that facilitates batch management by the operating organization. Others such as some custom GUI graphical interactive interfaces are provided to operators in a flexible and convenient manner, as well as CPE (Broadband Customer Front End Equipment) organization specifications. TR069 management method with higher security, more practicality and more flexible batch management. In addition to these remote management methods, the terminal product itself needs to provide some local management methods, such as serial port control operations.

In addition, in the development of new products, in order to seize the market and accelerate the development progress, two different products will be merged. In order to provide a unified interface, one product needs to be managed at the module level of another product. A module-level nested management method. Here we put these The remote management mode and the local management mode are collectively referred to as the management medium together with the module-level nested management mode inside the product.

 As shown in Fig. 1, due to the particularity of various management media, the management system of the terminal product itself is traditionally designed according to a specific management medium. In this way, when the terminal product needs to newly add a type of management medium, it needs to be targeted design; or when an end product needs to provide multiple management media, the product will respond to this demand by designing multiple management systems. This situation makes the traditional management system complicated and difficult to maintain, adds a lot of repetitive work, makes the development process boring, prolongs the product development cycle, and delays the market fighter.

Summary of the invention

 The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a management system and method for a terminal product, to avoid inefficiency caused by repeated development, and to improve system scalability and ease of use.

 The invention provides a management system for a terminal product, comprising:

 Management medium, used to interact with the user as a carrier for specific management content;

 a management core unit for inspecting, centralizing, distributing, and processing management instructions; a function module unit for providing specific functions of the terminal product,

 The function module is provided to the management core unit in a standard instruction manner; the management core unit combines all instructions of the function module and scheduling instructions inside the management core to provide a unified Command set for operation;

 The management medium encapsulates the command set into a management mode that is convenient for the user to operate according to the user operation mode. The present invention further provides a method for managing a terminal product, comprising the steps of: sending an operation instruction from a management medium to a management core unit;

 The management core combines the instruction initiator to analyze the attributes of the operation instruction, and determines the processing mode of the instruction;

The management core collects instruction feedback information of each functional module and responds to the corresponding management medium. · The present invention proposes a structured, scalable, and efficient unified management system and method for terminal products, which enables the management core to be easily reused in the development of terminal products. Products can easily expand or delete various management interfaces, making product development reduce unnecessary work, greatly improving R&D efficiency and reducing R&D costs. At the same time, due to the adoption of a unified management core, regardless of the management medium, the operation methods provided to users are always invariable, always giving users a sense of unity and friendliness, making it easy for old users to accept new management media. .

BRIEF abstract

 FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an implementation scheme of a traditional management system for a terminal product;

 2 is a schematic diagram of an implementation scheme of a management system having a management core unit of a terminal product; FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an implementation process of managing a terminal product by using Telnet;

 Figure 4 is a schematic diagram showing the implementation process of managing the terminal products through WEB.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

 The invention provides a terminal product management system and a method thereof by adopting a design idea that the management medium and the management system are separated, and the management core provides a unified command set externally, and all kinds of peripheral management media use a unified command set to adopt a unified The control interface manipulates the terminal product. In this way, the relationship between various management media and management systems is clearly defined, which makes the expansion of management media simple and fast, and improves the speed of product development.

 As shown in FIG. 2, the management system framework of the present invention divides the system into three layers, a management medium, a management core (Manager Core), and a function module.

 The management medium is the way for the system to deal with the user. It is the carrier for the specific management content (including instructions, reply messages, etc.). The management medium includes: Telnet remote login, WEB page access and other remote management methods; including serial port control and other local Management method; also includes nested management applications within the product;

 The management core is the center of the system framework. It is responsible for the inspection, concentration, distribution and processing of the management instructions (the instructions are divided into two categories, the operation instructions of the function modules and the management core scheduling instructions), which is the center of instruction management;

The function module is the specific function provided by the terminal product, including routing, bridging, address translation, and defense. Firewall and other functions, various management ultimately apply to these functional modules, play a role.

 The management medium, management core, and functional modules cooperate with each other to integrate the management system framework. The function modules are provided to the management core in standard instruction mode, and the instructions include module configuration instructions, status instructions, operation instructions, and the like;

 The management core combines all the instructions of the functional modules with the scheduling instructions within the management core to provide a uniform set of operational commands to the management medium;

 The management medium encapsulates the command set as a management method that is convenient for the user to operate.

Below, describe how to implement the management system framework:

 1) The management medium sends an operation instruction to the management core by means of inter-process message delivery, or a method directly called by the function;

 2) The management core combines the initiator of the instruction to analyze the validity, legality, operation authority and other attributes of the operation instruction, and determines the processing method of the instruction;

 If the instruction is a group start (management core scheduling instruction), the management core creates an instruction group, and prepares the working environment as the receiving state of the module operation instruction;

 If the instruction is a module operation instruction and the check passes, then the instruction is stored in the instruction group; if the instruction is a group completion (management core scheduling instruction), the management core ends the reception of the module operation instruction, and begins to distribute the operation instruction to the specific Functional module

 3) The management core collects the instruction feedback message of each function module, and responds to the corresponding management medium; if it is a query instruction, the query result is returned;

 If the configuration command is successful, the feedback operation succeeds after the configuration is successful.

 If it is a configuration command, the feedback operation fails after the configuration is unsuccessful, and the function module is notified to cancel the previous operation.

In the following, the process of configuring the PPPoE connection module of the terminal product through the CLI command line and the WEB page is taken as an example to describe the management process of the present invention to understand the implementation of the management system. The PPPoE connection is an access method for the terminal product to access the Internet. To simplify the description, the following describes the basic configuration parameters of the PPPoE connection, such as the user name (password) of the PPPoE connection, and the password (passwd). The authentication method is set to authmode and whether the connection allows address translation (nat).

 CLI configuration mode, as shown in Figure 3:

 In the first step, the remote maintenance terminal (PC) logs in to the terminal product through telnet, and the channel of the management medium is established; the PC sends a command to the management core of the terminal product (Manager Core) through the telnet protocol;

 Step 2; PC enters the config pppoe command, the command line interpreter (CLI) sets the configuration state to pppoe configuration mode, and interprets this command as a "Cmd Start" command, which is sent to the management core;

 Here, before sending the instruction to the management core, the CLI packages the instruction into a message structure according to the instruction set provided by the management core, and then sends the message to the management core process through the inter-process communication, and sends the CLI to the management core. All in this way;

 After receiving the instruction, the management core checks the legality of the instruction and classifies it. The Cmd Start instruction belongs to the management scheduling instruction. The management core will create an instruction group to receive the following instructions. The third step; PC input pppoe username testl The CLI sends this command to the management core, and the management core inserts it into the newly created instruction group after interpretation;

 Step 4; The PC continues to enter the command, pppoe passwd test2, pppoe authmode auto, firewall nat enable (nat belongs to the firewall firewall module), and the management core still uses the method of the previous step to put it into the created instruction group;

 Step 5: The PC ends the configuration. The "exit" command is used to exit the pppoe configuration mode. The CLI interprets this as a "Cmd Stop" command, which is sent to the management core to manage the configuration of the core end instruction group. The sixth step is to manage the core in the command. After the group command is received, the pppoe-related commands in the command group are sent to the PPPoE function module one by one, and the firewall-related commands are sent to the Firewall function module one by one.

Here, the management core constructs the instruction into a message structure, directly calls the function module to register the configuration processing function of the management core, and directly transfers the content of the message to the function module, thus completing It becomes a message that the management core sends to the function module.

 In the seventh step, after the management core calls the function of the function module one by one, the result of the success or the failure can be directly obtained. If the four calling processes are successful, the configuration is successful.

 At this time, the management core creates an "Operation Success" message, which is sent to the CLI process. Here, the method of inter-process message communication is adopted. After receiving the message, the CLI directly returns the remote maintenance terminal (PC) through the telnet protocol. ;

 The eighth step; if one of the four calling processes fails, it means that the previous configuration is unsuccessful;

 At this time, the management core creates a "Operation Failure" message and sends it to the CLI process; the CLI also returns the message to the PC; in addition, the management core also needs to notify the function module that the previous configuration is invalid, here is also called by the function. The method is carried out.

Next, the process of configuring through WEB is introduced, as shown in Figure 4. In the first step, the remote maintenance terminal (PC) accesses the terminal product through the WEB page. After the HTTP connection is created, the channel of the management medium is established; the PC uses the HTTP protocol to The management core of the terminal product (Manager Core) sends an instruction;

 In the second step, the PC obtains the PPPoE related configuration page from the WEB server through the GET operation. This process is actually a process of managing the core scheduling. Since this is a process of obtaining parameters, it is compared with the process of FIG. 3 or the following setting. Process, therefore, this process is simply passed;

 In the third step, the user fills in the correct configuration information on the WEB browser page, and clicks the submit button on the page to POST the page to the HTTP server. This page contains "pppoe:username=testl" "pppoe:passwd=test2" "firewall:nat:=enable" and other command information specified on the WEB page;

 In the fourth step, the WEB parser finds that the user has a POST operation and sends it to the management core process.

"Cmd Start" instruction to indicate the start of the instruction set;

 This transmission process is identical to the transmission process of the second step in Figure 3;

Step 5; The WEB parser sends the management core process one by one according to the instruction message from POST Send a decree, including "pppoe:username=testl", "pppoe:passwd=test2", "pppoe:authmode=auto" and "firewall:nat=enable";

 The sixth step, because the configuration information in the general WEB page contains the configuration parameters related to the entire configuration object, therefore, in addition to the configuration parameters described in the fifth step, additional configuration information is sent to the management core process, this process It should be the same process as the fifth step;

 In the seventh step, the WEB parser sends all the instruction messages to the management core, and then sends a "Cmd Stop" command to notify the management core to complete the transmission of the instruction group;

 In the eighth step, after the management core completely receives the instruction group information, the instruction in the instruction group is sent to the specific function module one by one. This process is consistent with the sixth step in FIG. 3, however, everyone can notice The instruction sent here contains all the instructions in the WEB page. The ninth and tenth steps, the processing of the response message of the function module, and the seventh and eighth steps in FIG. 3 respectively correspond.

Through the description of the two different operational processes of the above management system, it can be understood that the parts related to the management core in the process are the same. It is the introduction of this management core that greatly simplifies the management process of the entire system, so that the system has Great management media extension function, with strong market competitiveness.

Industrial applicability

 The invention provides a structured, scalable and effective terminal product unified management system and method, which enables the management core to be easily reused in the development of the terminal product, so that the product can be easily expanded or deleted. Various management interfaces enable the development of products to reduce unnecessary work, greatly improve R&D efficiency and reduce R&D costs. At the same time, due to the adoption of a unified management core, regardless of the management medium, the operation methods provided to users are always invariable, always giving users a sense of unity and friendliness, making it easy for old users to accept new management media. . Application The invention makes the system have a great management medium extension function and has strong market competitiveness.

Claims

Claim  1. A management system for a terminal product, characterized in that:  Management medium, used to interact with the user as a carrier for specific management content;  a management core unit for inspecting, centralizing, distributing, and processing management instructions; a function module unit for providing specific functions of the terminal product,  The function module is provided to the management core unit in a standard instruction manner; the management core unit combines all instructions of the function module and scheduling instructions inside the management core to provide a unified Command set for operation;  The management medium encapsulates the command set into a management mode that is convenient for the user to operate according to the user operation mode. 2. The system of claim 1 wherein the specific management content carried by the management medium comprises instructions and reply messages. 3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the manner of managing the medium comprises a remote management mode, a local management mode, and a nested management application.  4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the management core unit is responsible for managing instructions including an operation instruction of the function module and a scheduling instruction of the management core.  5. The system of claim 1, wherein the functional modules provide specific functions including routing, bridging, address translation, and a firewall.  6. A method of managing a terminal product using the system of claim 1, comprising the steps of:  Sending an operation instruction to the management core unit by the management medium;  The management core combines the instruction initiator to analyze the attributes of the operation instruction, and determines the processing mode of the instruction;  The management core collects instruction feedback information of each functional module and responds to the corresponding management medium. 7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the step of the management medium sending an operation instruction to the management core unit is a method of transmitting the message through the process, or a method directly called by the function. 8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the attribute of the analysis operation instruction includes validity, legality, and operation authority of the instruction.  9. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining the processing method of the instruction comprises:  If the instruction is a group start, the management core creates an instruction set, and prepares the working environment as the receiving state of the module operation instruction;  If the instruction is a module operation instruction and the check passes, the instruction is stored in the instruction group; if the instruction is a group completion, the management core ends the reception of the module operation instruction and begins to distribute the operation instruction to the specific function module.  The method of claim 6, wherein the management core collects the instruction feedback information of each function module and responds to the corresponding management medium step, including:  If it is a query instruction, it will return the query result;  If the configuration command is successful, the feedback operation succeeds after the configuration is successful.  If it is a configuration command, the feedback operation fails after the configuration is unsuccessful, and the function module is notified to cancel the previous operation.