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Faults occurring in a telecommunications system are monitored identifying their time of onset and reporting them to an operator through an interface if they have not cleared within a predetermined interval. Transient faults, which do clear within that interval, are not reported directly, but only if

Faults occurring in a telecommunications system are monitored identifying their time of onset and reporting them to an operator through an interface if they have not cleared within a predetermined interval. Transient faults, which do clear within that interval, are not reported directly, but only if such faults occur more frequently than a predetermined rate. This is determined by establishing a scan interval, and an analysis period equal to a plurality of scan intervals, monitoring the system continuously for the occurrences of faults, and storing their times of occurrence in a store. At the end of each scan interval, the number of occurrences of the fault during the analysis period which ends at the end of the scan interval are counted by a counter. If the number of occurrences of the fault in the analysis period is equal to or greater than a threshold value selected by user input an alarm indicator is activated. This allows isolated transient faults to be disregarded, allowing the user to concentrate on recurrent intermittent faults.

대표청구항 ▼

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method of monitoring a telecommunications system for occurences of conditions causing unavailability of a system to a user, and generating alarms in response to such conditions; said method comprising the steps of monitoring the system for the occurrence of one or more

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A method of monitoring a telecommunications system for occurences of conditions causing unavailability of a system to a user, and generating alarms in response to such conditions; said method comprising the steps of monitoring the system for the occurrence of one or more such conditions, and activating an alarm indicator if the number of occurrences of such conditions counted during a predetermined time interval is equal to or greater than a threshold value.