Ontology based monitoring and error detection in converged telecommunication processes

Some approaches for automated reconfiguration of telecommunication convergent processes have been proposed recently. However, mechanisms for monitoring and error detection are focused mostly in subjacent layers without considering high level errors. The present work presents an approach for monitoring and error detecting in convergent processes based on semantic technologies both to represent services and to define rules for monitoring, taking the concept of event from ITIL. Furthermore, the approach is included in the monitoring module of the AUTO framework and tested in Telecom servers using a rule based engine. Preliminary experimentation is also presented.