Because the optical network technique develops continuously, the nature of the test equipment used in the network will be more and more important, the remote monitor system is gaining importance for the operation of optical protection systems provide management and control of optical networks. In addition to the hardware module, the monitoring software module needed to be redesigned for automatically monitoring a group of optical modules of the hierarchy type. Our design provides a better function for the old product which can only monitor single type optical device, can't be reused, integrated and maintainable. Our design uses the network management (SNMP) interface which carries out remote supervision and use the RS232 interfaces to carry on local supervision. In addition, our design provides convenient in-time interface with the operational database functions, such as automatically the database data backup, security checking for data access and the hierarchical management scheme. Hence, our design can supervise and monitor a huge optical network system with 2500 objects, which will be continuously tested and the state of the operation situation recorded.
['Ying-Wen Bai', 'Chin-Tang Chen']
Design and Implementation of Monitoring Software Modules for Optical Protection Systems