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Abstract

In a network management system (NMS) and a method for operating the NMS in a graphic user interface (GUI) environment, the NMS communicates in a GUI environment requiring long-time interaction, and includes: an NMS GUI unit for displaying the status or progress of a communication procedure in real-time; and an NMS communication unit activated by the NMS GUI unit only as necessary. The NMS communication unit uses a message queue of the UNIX IPC as an information channel so as to exchange information with the NMS GUI unit. The disclosed method for includes the steps of: receiving a command input from a user via the NMS GUI unit; confirming whether the input is a communication command; displaying the status or communication progress by means of the NMS GUI unit and branching to a child process for the NMS communication unit and a parent process for the NMS GUI unit when a communication command is confirmed; determining the value of the child process's ID (PID); generating a message queue for which the determined PID corresponds to an m-type queue, and sending a communication start command to the child process to display the status of waiting for the user's input, and to display the status of communication; determining its own PID value by means of the branched child process; generating a message queue for which the determined PID corresponds to an m-type queue; receiving the communication start command from the parent process using the generated message queue; starting to communicate with the target system for management via the child process in response to the received communication start command; and informing the parent process of the result through the message queue by means of the child process, and terminating that process once communication with the target system for management has been completed.

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