A system and method of correlating alarms from a plurality of network elements (NEs) in a large communications network. A plurality of uncorrelated alarms are collected by an alarm collector from alarm reporters. An alarm correlator then partitions the alarms into correlated alarm clusters such that...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6253339?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6253339 - Alarm correlation in a large communications network
