Design and Implementation of Integrated Network Cabling Management Software (1)

1 Introduction

Wiring management is used to identify and record the wiring equipment, cables, information sockets, and other facilities in the work areas of equipment rooms and exchange rooms in a certain mode. The content includes: the implementation of management methods, identifiers, color labels, cross connections, jumpers, and other content makes the user system easy to maintain and manage, and improves the management level and work efficiency, the flexibility, openness, and scalability of the Integrated Wiring System are achieved.

The Integrated Wiring cable is the infrastructure of the Integrated Wiring System and the central nervous system of the entire network. It can provide intelligent buildings with applications of voice, data, images, multimedia and other systems. Thanks to the network flexibility and high reliability of the Integrated Wiring System, it is constantly expanding, but it also brings new problems, mainly manifested in the use of the system and the development of the network, the user must inevitably move, add, or modify the connection cables so that the Jumper continuously changes. The management of the Jumper may occur in the main distribution frame and floor distribution frame between devices, numerous cables are inevitable and chaotic, which has always been a concern of users and manufacturers.

Therefore, it is proposed to use wiring management software to manage line resources and improve the management level. The current understanding of Integrated Wiring System Management Software is often vague with the understanding of network management software and electronic distribution frames, therefore, the differences between the Integrated Wiring management software and the software are described first.

The Integrated Wiring System Management Software is a set of systems. modules form a graphical guide database for the physical structure of integrated wiring. Then, precise, efficient, and changeable maintenance is implemented for these devices, links, information points, and terminal-related persons. Network management software on the market can be divided into the following types: Network Asset Management, network monitoring, log analysis, route tracking, detection tools, network suites, etc. Of course, it can also be classified as follows: network management system, application performance management, desktop management system, employee behavior management, and security management. Generally, it is unlikely to confuse the Integrated Wiring management software with the Desktop Management System, employee behavior management system, and security management system.

The Network Management System (NMS) monitors, configures, and diagnoses network hardware devices. Main functions include Automatic Topology Discovery, remote configuration, performance parameter monitoring, and fault diagnosis. Network management systems are generally developed by two types of companies. One is a general-purpose software supplier, and the other is a variety of equipment manufacturers. The NMS system developed by general software vendors is a general network management system for network devices of various vendors. Currently, it is popular with network management systems such as OpenView, Micromuse, and Concord.

Specialized NMS systems designed by various equipment manufacturers for their own products provide comprehensive monitoring and configuration functions for their own products. They can monitor important performance indicators that cannot be monitored by common network management systems, there are also some unique configuration features. However, the devices produced by other companies are basically powerless. At present, the more popular equipment manufacturers of network management software Cisco-Works2000, NetSight, domestic Linkmanage, iManager.

2 Key Issues and Solutions of Cabling Management Software

2.1 flexibility and scalability

To analyze the requirements of the software, we usually conduct research to find out the possible device types, device properties, and hierarchical relationships, then, the information is designed into a database, and network data management is provided.

However, this method has two problems:

(1) It takes a long time to constantly communicate with network cabling members, and the property variables involved expand due to the different concerns of each person;

(2) being inflexible, the demand analysts always want to understand all the requirements of users. After understanding the requirements, we assume that all the requirements are understood and then design and code them, as a result, the software cannot handle new attributes flexibly in the future.

To solve this problem, we believe that using user configuration and templates can not only reduce the time required for software implementation, but also ensure maximum flexibility. The user configuration function is provided, and the user configures according to the attributes he cares about. The template function is provided, and the user can use the template that has been configured by others for network design. This reduces the time consumed and the complexity of using the software.

There are various devices and connections in a specific network. The devices may be routers, switches, etc. The connections refer to the links connecting devices, and may include optical fibers and copper cables, connections are connected to devices through ports. As devices and links emerge with the development of new technologies, the attributes of devices and connections are constantly changing. To meet this dynamic requirement, software must be built on an abstract model, and element-related attributes in the model can be dynamically modified to meet this need. Therefore, the network is abstracted into a mesh structure with nodes and links. nodes can be materialized into devices, and the device may have endpoints. Links refer to connections used to connect devices. At the same time, designers introduced the concept of hierarchy during Internet planning, such as the current TCP/IP protocol. For this model, the concept of hierarchy is introduced here, which can include actual hierarchies, such as buildings, floors, rooms, and virtual hierarchies such as Intranet, Internet, and campus networks, this facilitates network planning.

During the design process, the layer, device, link, and device port have default logical properties. For example, the ID number used for marking is provided to the software system and invisible to the user, the name attribute visible to the user is also provided and set by the user. In addition, the device must have the port number attribute. Id Identifier of the ports at both ends of the link. These required attributes constitute the required parameters of the model. Other attributes of interest to the user can be dynamically configured. These required properties can constitute a network. A link can be described as follows: port p1 of the device whose id is d1 is connected to port p2 of the device whose id is d2, numerous links constitute a network, which is described from the endpoint or the device, that is, the connections between numerous devices constitute a network, the device description can simplify the complexity of network connections and avoid the complexity of software implementation and the computing workload during query. 1.