Fault Management Adapter

Fault Management Adapter (FMA) is designed to collect and analyze the information (logs) from network devices over the Telnet protocol, and to send the data to Fault Management System over the Syslog protocol.

Advantages and features

The Fault Management Adapter (FMA) allows optimizing fault management systems and considerbaly extending their functionality. The FMA has the full range of useful characteristics and practical advantages.

Reliability 

The FMA operation relaibility is determined by the reliability of prgramming language – Java. During the adapter implementation we have provided for the capability to duplicate all events of adapter activity in special logs. In case of connection failure the unsent messages are stored in a special file; these data are re-sent later, upon the connection recovery.

Versatility 

The adapter can be used to read the alarm messages from multi-vendor sources by setting the appropriate input filters. Moreover, this filtering system allows processing the filtered messages to prepare them for further sending.

The adapter is capable to receive messages from several sources simultaneously, convert them in required format, and simultaneously send them to several data receivers.

Being implemented in Java, the FMA can operate both under Windows and Unix.

Scalability 

The scalability of FMA-based solution is defined by the scalability of Java. If any re-development is required for the system extension, you need minimum resources and efforts.

Performance 

Sufficiently high performance of the FMA operation is based on the minimum time required for receiving the messages, their processing and sending, - the time interval between receiving and sending is lower than 5 seconds.

FMA components

• Adapter – The main system component responsible for the general control functions.
• Reader – Responsible for receiving and filtering the messages from different sources. For each devices sending messages a separate Reader is set up. Thus, the total number of Reader components is defined by the number of devices that send messages.
• Sender – Responsible for send the messages to data receivers after their filtering and processing. Similar to the Reader component, the number of Sender components is defined by the number of data receivers.

During the system operation, for each receiver you can specify the list of devices that send messages.