Abstract: This application provide an information sending method, and a device and a system. The method includes: creating or updating, by a first device, a network slice instance; sending, by the first device, a first message to a second device, where the first message carries first network slice instance information, the first network slice instance information is first information about the created or updated network slice instance, and the first network slice instance information includes an identifier of the network slice instance; and storing or configuring, by the second device, the first network slice instance information. In the solutions, after creating or updating the network slice instance, the first device may send the information about the created or updated network slice instance to the second device, and the second device may store or configure the information, so as to avoid allocating an improper network slice instance to a terminal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an alarm information processing method, including: acquiring, by an EMS, a first alarm information set reported by a VNFM, where the first alarm information set is generated after the VNFM performs correlation analysis on at least one piece of NFVI alarm information and at least one piece of VIM alarm information; acquiring, by the EMS, a second alarm information set reported by a VNF, where the second alarm information set includes at least one piece of VNF alarm information; and performing, by the EMS, correlation analysis on the first alarm information set and the second alarm information set, and dispatching a configured work order for alarm information that has a correlation relationship. By using the present invention, a cross-layer association between alarm information can be implemented to reduce a quantity of work orders.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a self-optimization switch. By using technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, enabling and disabling of self-optimization can be controlled, and a state of the self-optimization switch can be obtained. A technical solution provided in embodiments of the present disclosure is as follows: a method for controlling a self-optimization switch includes: obtaining a target state of a self-optimization switch; and sending a setting command that includes the target state to a managed unit, where the setting command instructs the managed unit to change the state of the self-optimization switch to the target state.

Abstract: A life cycle management method and device for a network service are provided. The method includes determining, by an operation support system (OSS) according to a target network service (NS), an existing virtualized network function (VNF) instance required for life cycle management on the target NS; sending, by the OSS, a life cycle management request of the target NS to a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), where the life cycle management request includes a mapping relationship between an identifier of the existing VNF instance and a characteristic parameter corresponding to the identifier; and receiving, by the NFVO, the life cycle management request from the OSS for the target NS, and performing life cycle management on the target NS according to the existing VNF instance and the mapping relationship. In embodiments of the present disclosure, processing efficiency of life cycle management and resource utilization can be improved.

Abstract: A network slice management method, a management unit, and a system, where the method includes receiving, by a first management unit, a first management request, where the first management request carries requirement information of a network slice or indication information, and the indication information is used to obtain the requirement information of the network slice. The method further includes determining, by the first management unit, requirement information of a subnet that forms the network slice. According to the method, the first management unit can determine the corresponding requirement information of the subnet based on the requirement information of the network slice.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for handling a cell outage. The method for handling a cell outage includes: receiving, by a first base station, an energy saving activation message sent by a second base station when a cell outage happens to a second cell, where the energy saving activation message is used to disable the energy saving function; transferring, by the first base station, the first cell from the energy saving state to the normal state according to the energy saving activation message, or keeping a third cell in the normal state until learning that the cell outage of the second cell is solved. This method prevents a coverage blind area in the network when a cell outage happens to a second cell that covers the area of a first cell which is in the energy saving state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for establishing an interface between VNFMs, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies, so as to improve efficiency of communication between the VNFMs to some extent.

Abstract: A method for associating a network service (NS) with a virtualized network function (VNF) to enable a network manager (NM) to determine a relationship between the NS and the VNF and maintain the NS. The method includes sending, by the NM, an NS instantiation request message to a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), where the NS instantiation request message carries the information about the NS. The method further includes receiving, by the NM, an NS instantiation completion message from the NFVO, where the NS instantiation completion message carries information about the NS and information about N VNFs. The method further includes determining a mapping relationship between the NS and the N VNFs according to the information about the NS and the information about the N VNFs, where information about each VNF in the information about the N VNFs represents the VNF in the N VNFs forming the NS, and N?one.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a VNF processing policy determining method, an apparatus, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to avoid a problem that an NS constituted by a VNF cannot normally run when an EM fails to configure an application parameter for the VNF. The method includes: receiving, by a management node, a configuration feedback message sent by an EM, and determining a processing policy for a VNF according to the configuration feedback message, where the configuration feedback message is used to indicate whether an application parameter of the VNF is successfully configured, and the processing policy is used by the management node to process the VNF. The method is applied to an NFV technology.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and an apparatus for coordinating a network. The method includes: receiving or monitoring network information; determining, according to the network information, whether a network operation needs to be coordinated; and coordinating the network operation if determining, according to the network information, that the network operation needs to be coordinated. The apparatus provided in embodiments of the present invention includes: a network information acquiring unit, a coordination determining unit and a coordinating unit. The method and the apparatus for coordinating the network provided in embodiments of the present invention can reduce the probability of occurrence of various network problems due to that a network operation is fixed or is preset by an operator, so that the network operation can achieve an expected network objective, thereby reducing maintenance cost of the operator.

Abstract: A method for associating a network service (NS) with a virtualized network function (VNF), an apparatus, and a system such that a network manager (NM) can determine a relationship between an NS and a VNF, and maintain the NS. The method includes sending, by an NM, an NS instantiation request message to a network function virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), receiving an NS instantiation completion message from the NFVO, and determining a mapping relationship between a first NS and N VNFs according to information about the first NS and information about the N VNFs. The NS instantiation request message carries the information about the first NS, the NS instantiation completion message carries the information about the first NS and the information about the N VNFs, information about each VNF in the information about the N VNFs represents the VNF in the N VNFs forming the first NS, and N?1.

Abstract: A management method includes receiving, by a first management unit, a first management request, where the first management request carries requirement information of a network slice or indication information, and the indication information is used to obtain the requirement information of the network slice. The method further includes obtaining, by the first management unit, requirement information of a first subnet based on the requirement information of the network slice, and determining, by the first management unit, requirement information of a first network resource required by the first subnet, where the requirement information of the first network resource is used to select, create, configure, activate, or request a first network resource instance that satisfies the requirement information of the first network resource.

Abstract: This application provide an information sending method, and a device and a system. The method includes: creating or updating, by a first device, a network slice instance; sending, by the first device, a first message to a second device, where the first message carries first network slice instance information, the first network slice instance information is first information about the created or updated network slice instance, and the first network slice instance information includes an identifier of the network slice instance; and storing or configuring, by the second device, the first network slice instance information. In the solutions, after creating or updating the network slice instance, the first device may send the information about the created or updated network slice instance to the second device, and the second device may store or configure the information, so as to avoid allocating an improper network slice instance to a terminal.

Abstract: A network slice management method, a management unit, and a system, where the method includes receiving, by a first management unit, a first management request, where the first management request carries requirement information of a network slice or indication information, and the indication information is used to obtain the requirement information of the network slice. The method further includes determining, by the first management unit, requirement information of a subnet that forms the network slice. According to the method, the first management unit can determine the corresponding requirement information of the subnet based on the requirement information of the network slice. This way, the network slice can be automatically deployed based on the requirement information of the network slice, thereby improving network slice deployment efficiency.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a self-optimization switch. By using technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, enabling and disabling of self-optimization can be controlled, and a state of the self-optimization switch can be obtained. A technical solution provided in embodiments of the present disclosure is as follows: a method for controlling a self-optimization switch includes: obtaining a target state of a self-optimization switch; and sending a setting command that includes the target state to a managed unit, where the setting command instructs the managed unit to change the state of the self-optimization switch to the target state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for handling a cell outage. The method for handling a cell outage includes: receiving, by a first base station, an energy saving activation message sent by a second base station when a cell outage happens to a second cell, where the energy saving activation message is used to disable the energy saving function; transferring, by the first base station, the first cell from the energy saving state to the normal state according to the energy saving activation message, or keeping a third cell in the normal state until learning that the cell outage of the second cell is solved. This method prevents a coverage blind area in the network when a cell outage happens to a second cell that covers the area of a first cell which is in the energy saving state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus, and a system for controlling a self-optimization switch. By using technical solutions provided in embodiments of the present invention, enabling and disabling of self-optimization can be controlled, and a state of the self-optimization switch can be obtained. A technical solution provided in embodiments of the present invention is as follows: A method for controlling a self-optimization switch includes: obtaining a target state of a self-optimization switch; and sending a setting command that includes the target state to a managed unit, where the setting command instructs the managed unit to change the state of the self-optimization switch to the target state.

Abstract: A resource configuration method and an apparatus are disclosed, to resolve prior-art problems of a relatively undiversified and inflexible resource allocation mode, and being incapable of elastically responding to a sudden requirement for an additional resource. In the method, a resource configuration device may obtain a resource increment specific to a resource group, and reserve a resource of the resource increment for the resource group or allocate a resource of the resource increment to the resource group, so that the resource configuration device can flexibly allocate a resource to the resource group. When the resource group needs to be scaled out, but a target resource application volume for the scale-out exceeds a resource limit of the resource group that is maintained by the resource configuration device, the resource configuration device can allocate sufficient resources to the resource group.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving, by an NFVO device, a first loading request message from an NM unit, where the first loading request message includes image files of some virtualized network function modules in a VNF unit, and the first loading request message is used for requesting the NFVO device to load the image files; and loading, by the NFVO device, the image files.