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Abstract

A network manager for a telecommunications network having a client-server architecture is provided. The components of the network manager include a set of clients which form part of the application programs of the network manager, a user interface, a database containing details of the network and a communications stack for communicating with exchanges managed by the network manager. The clients generate requests to run jobs on the servers. The jobs which are run on certain servers are eventually destined for a resource in the form of a database, while the jobs which are run on other servers are eventually destined for resources in the form of exchanges. The requests are initially passed to a module JBM. This module checks if the resource for which the job is destined is free and, if not, puts the job on a holding queue. If the resource is free, it checks whether the job is scheduled for immediate execution or execution at a future time. If it is scheduled for execution at a future time, it is put on a queue of scheduled jobs. If the job is scheduled for immediate execution, the module JBM checks if a server is free to accept the job. If no server is free, the job is put on a queue of jobs awaiting immediate execution. If the server is free, the module JBM instructs a module SMAN to load the job into the free server.

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