| The paper analyzes main communications network supporting and maintaining models firstly. After a comparison among several software designing methods, it makes a deep study on Object Oriented Design method and its modeling language UML. Advantages of using UML in system modeling are discussed. Afterwards, the modeling of INMS and its main tasks, keystones is researched. Finally, the paper comes up with a model of INMS based on UML, which has taken the existing condition of the industry into account, in terms of author's practical work experience and ideas from TMN and NGOSS model.The solution of heterogeneous problems caused by multi-vendor and multi-specialty environment, the blue print of alarm association analyzing and the compounded multi-layer alarm-filtering model to prevent alarm storm are the main achievements of the paper. |