JP2010146455A - Asset information management system and asset information management program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an asset information management technology for efficiently managing asset information of a terminal connected to a network. <P>SOLUTION: An asset information management system has an asset information storage part for storing asset information including terminal identification information of a managed terminal and an operation information storage part for storing operation information showing operation in the terminal. An unused terminal determination part acquires the terminal identification information from the asset information storage part to determine a terminal which is not used on the basis of operation information stored in the operation information storage part as an unused terminal. An asset information change determination part uses operation information about the unused terminal included in the asset information storage part to determine the necessity to change the asset information about transfer of the unused terminal and, in accordance with the determination result, a control unit performs prescribed control. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an asset information management technique for managing asset information of a computer terminal.

  Conventionally, various studies have been made on techniques for efficiently managing asset information of devices such as terminals connected to a network. For example, in the technique of Patent Document 1, an IP address or a MAC address is acquired as management information of a management target asset from the header portion of information distributed through the network, and the location of the asset is confirmed. At this time, if the management information of the managed asset is different from the acquired management information, the management information is updated, and the burden on the administrator is reduced. In addition, in order to use the information on software installed on each asset and the connected hardware as asset management information, software that automatically sends this information is installed on each asset, and the software Techniques for detecting new installations, version upgrades, and hardware additions are also disclosed.

  In the technology of Patent Document 2, the management apparatus centrally manages the usage period of each information processing apparatus. Is the manager program of the management apparatus within the usage period for the agent of each information processing apparatus? It conveys information on whether or not. When the agent of the information processing apparatus receives information indicating that the usage period has ended from the manager program, the agent restricts activation of the application and prevents the information processing apparatus whose usage period has expired from being illegally used.

  In the technique of Patent Literature 3, the asset device identification information and position information are acquired from the asset device, and the movement of the asset device is managed. At this time, if identification information and position information cannot be acquired from the asset device for a certain period of time, the user is inquired whether the asset device has been discarded or stolen, thereby reducing the burden on the administrator.

JP 2001-290937 A (paragraph numbers 0009-0014, FIGS. 6 and 8) Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2003-162623 (paragraph numbers 0004-0006, FIG. 2) Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-275616 (paragraph numbers 0008-0011)

  With the technology of Patent Document 1, as described above, it is possible to detect and manage software upgrades, hardware additions, and the like. However, it cannot be detected that the asset itself is no longer used or has been replaced. Therefore, when an asset is discarded or replaced, the administrator must check and update the changed asset information, and the management burden on the administrator cannot be reduced. On the other hand, in the technique of Patent Document 2, a use period must be set for each information processing apparatus in advance, and the burden on the administrator cannot be reduced. Moreover, although unauthorized use can be suppressed by locking the operation of the information processing apparatus, etc., asset information cannot be updated. Therefore, the administrator needs to update asset information. On the other hand, in the technique of Patent Document 3, if the information from the asset device cannot be acquired for a certain period of time, the user is inquired about disposal or theft of the asset device, but the asset device is not activated or connected to the network. Since the same thing can happen even when it is not, it is difficult to detect the disposal of the asset device with sufficient accuracy only from the above information. For this reason, management of asset devices must be made by an administrator, and the burden on the administrator cannot be reduced. Furthermore, when there is an asset that is not used, the administrator must update the asset information after confirming the reason why the asset is no longer used due to replacement or the like. The burden on the administrator cannot be reduced.

  In view of the above situation, an object of the present invention is to provide an asset information management technique for efficiently managing asset information of a terminal connected to a network.

In order to solve the above-described problem, an asset information management system according to the present invention stores an asset information storage unit that stores asset information including terminal identification information of a managed terminal, and operation information representing an operation on the terminal. Based on the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit and the operation information storage unit, among the terminals of the asset information storage unit, an unused terminal determination unit that determines an unused terminal as an unused terminal; An asset information change determination unit that determines the necessity of changing the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal by using the operation information of the unused terminal included in the asset information storage unit. .

  With the configuration of the present invention described above, in the managed terminal, the unused terminal is determined as an unused terminal, and the operation information of the unused terminal indicates whether the unused terminal has performed an operation for transition. Can be determined. As a result, it is possible to automatically determine whether it is necessary to change the asset information of a terminal that is not being used.

  “Migration” in the present invention means changing / changing the usage state of the terminal. For example, terminal use end, disposal, replacement, etc. correspond to this.

  In one preferred embodiment of the asset information management system of the present invention, the asset information storage unit stores terminal identification information of a terminal and user identification information of a user of the terminal in association with each other. The user identification information of the user of the user terminal is acquired from the asset information storage unit, and a new terminal used by the user is specified from the operation information of the operation information storage unit using the user identification information. The asset information change determination unit further includes a terminal identification unit, and the asset information change determination unit uses the operation information of the unused terminal and the operation information of the new terminal, and needs to change the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal Determine. Thereby, it is possible to automatically determine whether or not the asset information needs to be changed due to replacement of a new terminal that is newly used by the user and an unused terminal due to terminal migration.

In one preferred embodiment of the asset information management system of the present invention, the asset information change determination unit compares the operation information used for the determination with a predetermined transition condition, and indicates a transition sufficiency level indicating the degree of transition. To determine whether the asset information needs to be changed. The transition sufficiency is a degree representing how much the operation at the terminal matches a predetermined transition condition, and details will be described later. As a result, it is possible to determine whether or not the operation by the migration has been performed by comparing it with a predetermined migration condition that is a standard for the migration work, etc. in the unused terminal, and the asset information The need for change can be determined more accurately.

The technical features of the asset information management system according to the present invention described above can also be applied to similar asset information management programs. For example, an asset management program for an asset management system comprising an asset information storage unit that stores terminal identification information of a managed terminal, and an operation information storage unit that stores operation information representing operations at the terminal. An unused terminal determination function for determining an unused terminal among the terminals of the asset information storage unit based on the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit, and the asset information storage unit And a terminal migration determination function for determining the necessity of changing the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal using the operation information of the unused terminal included in the computer. Of course, such an asset information management program can also obtain the effects described in the above-described asset information management system, and can further incorporate the above-described additional technology.

  According to the present invention configured as described above, an unused terminal is determined based on operation information, and the necessity of changing asset information related to the terminal is determined using the operation information related to the unused terminal. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an effect that it is possible to automatically determine whether the asset information of unused terminals needs to be changed.

[First Embodiment]
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration diagram of an asset information management system of the present invention. In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a terminal C to be managed is connected to a server S via a communication network (hereinafter referred to as “network”) N. The network N is a CSMA / CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) system including a cable for physically transmitting information in a limited facility such as a company or a school, and a relay device such as a LAN switch or a hub. Ethernet (trademark) type LAN, but this network N is constructed by an intranet using the Internet technology in addition to the Ethernet type LAN, or WAN (Wide Area Network) ).

  FIG. 2 schematically shows an example of the hardware configuration of the server S. The server S includes an arithmetic device 1 such as a CPU that executes arithmetic processing of a program, a storage device 2 such as a RAM and a hard disk for storing information, processing results of the arithmetic device 1 and information stored in the storage device 2 on the Internet, And at least a communication device 5 that transmits and receives via a network such as a LAN. The server S may include a display device 3 such as a display (screen) and an input device 4 such as a keyboard, a mouse, and a numeric keypad as necessary. Each function (each means) realized on the server S is executed when a means (program, module, etc.) for executing the process is read into the arithmetic unit 1. When using the information stored in the storage device 2 in the processing, each function reads the corresponding information from the storage device 2 and uses the read information in the processing in the arithmetic device 1 as appropriate. Further, the functions of the server S may be distributed to a plurality of terminals or servers.

  The hardware configuration of the terminal C is almost the same as that of the server S. As shown in FIG. 2, the terminal C has a calculation device 1, a storage device 2, a display device 3, an input device 4, and a communication device 5. Yes.

  FIG. 3 shows a functional block diagram of the server S and terminal C constituting the asset information management system of the present invention. The terminal C includes an operation information transmission unit 11 that generates operation information representing various operations on the terminal C and transmits the operation information to the server S. In the present embodiment, the operation information includes terminal identification information that can uniquely identify the terminal C, user identification information that can uniquely identify a user who operates the terminal C, operation details, operation target, accompanying information, and operation. The date and time information etc. performed are included. Here, the terminal identification information can use the IP address of the terminal C, the MAC address, the terminal name, a unique number assigned to each terminal C, etc., and the user identification information is assigned to each user name and user. Unique numbers can be used. For the date / time information, information that can specify the date / time, such as a character string representing year / month / day / hour / minute / second, a numerical value indicating an elapsed time from a specific date / time (for example, midnight on January 1, 1970) can be used. . Note that the operation information, terminal identification information, and user identification information are not limited to those described above, and as long as the object of the present invention is achieved, only a part of them may be used as necessary. Information may be used.

  Here, the operation content is the content executed in the terminal C, and means control of applications, hardware, etc. processed in middleware or OS. Specifically, key input, pointing device operation (click, move, area selection, etc.), attachment / detachment of external storage media, connection and communication with external devices (printers, etc.), file operation (creation, deletion, browsing, updating) , Copy, move, rename file, etc.), folder operations (create, delete, copy, move, rename folder, etc.), application operations (start, exit, etc.), install, uninstall, add / delete / detect drive Change IP address, change computer name, print, copy to clipboard, login, logout, switch user, add user, delete user, add to domain, delete from domain, registry operation (registration, update, Delete), OS (Operating System) settings, and the like. These are examples and are not limited.

  The operation target is a target to be executed according to the operation content. Specifically, the file identification information (file name, folder name, etc. that can uniquely identify the file) of the operated file, the name of the operated application, the switched user identification information, the IP address, the drive name, etc. It is information to show. These are examples and are not limited.

  The accompanying information can include various information that can be acquired along with the operation content. Specifically, in the case of file copy, the copy destination / source folder name, in the case of moving a file, the destination / source folder name, and in the case of changing the file name or folder name, before / after change Subsequent file names and folder names, user identification information before and after switching in the case of user switching, and IP addresses before and after changing in the case of IP address change can be used as accompanying information. These are examples and are not limited.

  The server S includes an asset information storage unit 23 that stores asset information including terminal identification information of the managed terminal C, an operation information acquisition unit 21 that acquires operation information transmitted from the terminal C, and the acquired operation information. The operation information storage unit 22 to store, the unused terminal determination unit 24 to determine the unused terminal Cn based on the operation information of the terminal C stored in the asset information storage unit 23, the operation information of the unused terminal Cn An asset information change determination unit 25 that determines the necessity of changing the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal Cn, a control unit 26 that performs control according to the determination result of the asset information change determination unit 25, It has.

  Normally, each component in the terminal C and the server S is executed by reading the hardware (programs, modules, etc.) that execute the processing into the hardware. You may comprise by a combination and you may comprise only with the hardware which combined the logic etc.

When the user performs an operation on the terminal C, the operation information is generated by the operation information transmitting unit 11 and transmitted to the server S via the network N. The generated operation information may be transmitted at any time or at a predetermined timing. Here, the term “predetermined timing” means a timing at which a predetermined operation is performed and a certain interval, but is not limited thereto, and other timings may be used as long as the object of the present invention is achieved. Absent. The transmitted operation information is acquired by the operation information acquisition unit 21 of the server S and stored in the operation information storage unit 22.

  The asset information storage unit 23 stores asset information including terminal identification information of the terminal C being managed. Here, in addition to the terminal identification information, the asset information includes the terminal name of the terminal C, user identification information, domain, purpose of use, installation location, owned department, introduction date, scheduled switching date, and installed application. It may include information such as application information to be shown. The information included in the asset information is not limited to the above, and various information related to the terminal C may be included. Further, the various information described above is stored in the asset information storage unit 23 in association with the terminal identification information for each terminal.

  The unused terminal determination unit 24 sets one terminal among the terminals C stored in the asset information storage unit 23 as a determination target terminal C, and determines whether the determination target terminal C is currently used. When it is determined that the terminal C is not used, the terminal C is determined as an unused terminal Cn. The terminal C to be determined can be designated by the administrator or automatically selected in the present system, but is not limited to this.

In this embodiment, an unused terminal is determined by determining that it has not been used for a certain period of time based on the operation information. The unused terminal determination unit 24 acquires the terminal identification information of the terminal C to be determined from the asset information storage unit 23, and uses the acquired terminal identification information to obtain final operation information (hereinafter, “final operation” for the terminal C). Information ”) from the operation information storage unit 22. The final operation information may be the operation information of the last operation performed by the user at the terminal C, or may be the operation information recorded last regardless of the user's operation. The predetermined operation information recorded last may be used.

Then, date / time information is extracted from the acquired final operation information, and the date / time information is compared with the date / time of determination. That is, the difference between the date information and the current date (hereinafter referred to as “unused time”) is calculated. Then, by comparing this unused time with a predetermined time THn, it is determined whether the terminal C to be determined is unused. If the unused time exceeds the predetermined time THn as a result of the determination, the terminal C to be determined is determined as the unused terminal Cn, and the terminal identification information of the determined unused terminal Cn and the final operation information or The date and time of the final operation information is sent to the asset information change determination unit 25. Here, the predetermined time THn can be set to an arbitrary time such as one day, one week, or one month. Although the difference in date and time is used here, the present invention is not limited to this, and it may be determined whether it is before a predetermined past date and time.

  The asset information change determination unit 25 extracts the operation information of the unused terminal Cn from the operation information storage unit 22 using the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn received from the unused terminal determination unit 24. Then, by comparing the extracted operation information with a predetermined transfer condition, it is determined whether the asset information needs to be changed due to the transfer of the unused terminal Cn. Then, the determination result of the necessity for changing the asset information of the unused terminal Cn is sent to the control unit 26.

Here, the predetermined transition condition includes a condition that is a criterion for determining whether or not the terminal is performing the transition work. Various determination criteria can be set in this transition condition, and operations performed at the time of transition, combinations of operations, time / time, procedure (order), and the like can be included. Operations to be performed at the time of migration include moving data such as files, e-mails, address books, bookmarks, etc. to other terminals C and file servers, deleting each data, terminal C applications, users, registry, various registrations This is an operation for registering / updating / deleting information etc. Of course, other operations may be used.

  The control unit 26 performs control according to the determination result in the asset information change determination unit 25. As this control, asset information related to the unused terminal Cn is automatically changed (deletion / change of asset information, recording of transition to asset information, deletion of application information related to the unused terminal Cn, etc.), management Notification to the user, registration as a non-permitted terminal, display of a list of unused terminals that have been transferred, output of reports, change of the display form of unused terminals Cn that have been transferred in terminal list display (bold characters, characters Color change, icon display, etc.) and various controls can be performed. Naturally, it is also possible to change the control according to the content of the determination result of the asset information change determination unit 25.

  Next, the processing flow of the asset information management system of this embodiment will be described using the flowchart of FIG. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit 22 is FIG. 5 and a terminal transfer operation as shown in FIG. 6 is set as a predetermined transfer condition. Here, the terminal transfer operation includes an operation content performed by a user's transfer operation, an operation target (application name, file name, etc.) that is a target of the operation content, and accompanying information.

  The unused terminal determination unit 24 designates one terminal C among the managed terminals C as a determination target, acquires the final operation information of the determination target terminal C from the operation information storage unit 22, and acquires the terminal C Determines whether is an unused terminal. Then, the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn and the final operation information are sent to the asset information change determination unit 25 (# 01).

Specifically, if one terminal is the terminal “AB123456”, the date and time of the final operation information is 17:04 on Oct. 10, 2008 in FIG. If the execution date of this determination is November 10, 2008, it can be seen that the terminal “AB123456” has not been used for 31 days. Here, when the threshold value THn of the unused time is 30 days, the unused time of the terminal “AB123456” exceeds the threshold value THn, thereby determining the terminal “AB123456” as an unused terminal. On the other hand, if the terminal “AB123456” is not an unused terminal, the process ends.

The asset information change determination unit 25 uses the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn received from the unused terminal determination unit 24 to extract operation information for the unused terminal Cn for a predetermined period from the operation information storage unit 22. (# 02). Here, the predetermined period may be any period such as one day before, one week before, one month before the date and time of the final operation information. Then, the extracted operation information is compared with a predetermined transition condition, and a transition sufficiency level indicating the necessity of changing the asset information is calculated (# 03).

The transition sufficiency is calculated by comparing the extracted operation information of the unused terminal Cn with the terminal transition operation. As a calculation method, the ratio of the number of operations matching the terminal transfer operation to the number of terminal transfer operations in the operation information performed on the unused terminal Cn is calculated. That is, in calculating the transition sufficiency, the operation information of the unused terminal Cn is sequentially compared with the terminal transition operation that is a predetermined transition condition, and the operation information performed at the unused terminal Cn is used as the terminal transition operation. Identify the relevant operation information. According to this calculation method, in the operation information of FIG. 5, the date and time information is October 10, 2008, 13:10, October 10, 2008, 14:40, October 10, 2008, 16:16, 2008. It can be determined that the operation information at 17:04 on October 10 of the year is an operation corresponding to the terminal transfer operation. Since the number of operation information determined to correspond to the terminal transfer operation is 4 and the number of terminal transfer operations that are the predetermined transfer conditions is 10, the transition sufficiency is 4/10 = 40%. It is calculated that there is. Whether the asset information needs to be changed is determined based on whether the calculated degree of transition satisfaction exceeds a predetermined threshold value TH.

Further, it is determined whether the operation corresponding to the terminal transfer operation has been performed within a predetermined time from the start of the operation. If the operation has not been performed within the predetermined time, the transition sufficiency is reset to 0 and the operation is transferred. You may make it be the start time of calculation of a sufficiency degree. Accordingly, in the operation information, when an operation corresponding to the terminal transfer is accidentally performed, it is possible to prevent the operation from being erroneously determined as the terminal transfer operation.

In the above description, the number of terminal transition operations is used in calculating the transition sufficiency. However, each terminal transition operation may be calculated with a weight. When the calculation is performed with a weight added, the above-mentioned transition sufficiency is calculated as 14/28 = 50%.

Furthermore, not only the type of operation but also the operation order may be included as the terminal transfer operation. In this case, it is possible to exclude a terminal transition operation that does not follow the operation order or a terminal transition operation that has been performed a plurality of times from the calculation of the transition satisfaction degree, and the accuracy of the transition satisfaction degree can be increased.

The asset information change determination unit 25 determines that there is no need to change the asset information of the unused terminal Cn when the calculated transition satisfaction does not exceed the predetermined threshold value TH. If the predetermined threshold value TH is exceeded, it is determined that there is a need to change the asset information of the unused terminal Cn. Then, the determination result and the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn are sent to the control unit. (# 04)

  In the above description, the threshold TH of the transition sufficiency is described as using a constant value regardless of the length of the unused time of the unused terminal Cn. It is also possible to set a threshold TH of transition sufficiency according to the length of use time. That is, the longer the unused time is, the lower the transition sufficiency threshold value TH is set, so that the unused terminal Cn that is performing only part of the work accompanying the transition, for example, the end of use or the target of disposal. It is possible to reliably detect the transition of an unused terminal Cn that has been used only for limited operations such as deletion from a domain or deletion of an account. It is also possible to prevent leakage of changes.

  The control unit 26 performs predetermined control according to the determination result received from the asset information change determination unit 25 (# 05). If the determination result indicates that there is no need to change asset information, no control is performed. On the other hand, if the determination result indicates that the asset information needs to be changed, a pop-up notification that prompts the administrator terminal to change the asset information of the terminal “AB123456” is displayed on the administrator terminal. In addition, when the terminal list is displayed on the administrator terminal, the display form of the terminal “AB123456” (bold character, change of character color, icon display, etc.) can be changed. The predetermined control is not limited to the above, and the asset information in the asset information storage unit 23 related to the unused terminal Cn is automatically changed (deletion of asset information, recording of the transition to asset information, unused terminal Cn (Deleting application information, etc.), notifying the administrator (email notification, etc.), registering as an unauthorized terminal, displaying a list of unused terminals that have been migrated, and outputting reports Can do.

In the above description, whether or not the asset information needs to be changed is received as a determination result from the asset information change determination unit 25. However, the asset information change determination unit 25 does not perform determination based on the threshold value TH, and determines the transition sufficiency. You may make it receive as a result of determination of the necessity of a change of asset information. With this configuration, various controls can be performed for each transition sufficiency value, and appropriate control in accordance with the transition status of unused terminals Cn can be performed.

  The above processing (# 01 to # 05) is performed when the administrator designates the terminal C to be determined, or is managed at a predetermined timing (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc.). It can be used in various processing modes, such as sequentially executing the terminal C.

  As described above, in this embodiment, it is possible to determine the necessity of changing the asset information in the unused terminal Cn that is not used, and to reduce the management burden on the unused terminal Cn of the administrator. Become. Moreover, since the transition determination is performed after the unused terminal Cn is determined, the determination process in the present system can be reduced.

[Second Embodiment]
FIG. 7 shows functional blocks of the server S and terminal C that constitute the asset information management system of this embodiment. In addition to the configuration of the first embodiment, the asset information management system of the present embodiment further includes a new terminal specifying unit 27 that specifies a new terminal Cd that is newly used by the same user as the unused terminal Cn. It differs from the first embodiment in that the transition of the unused terminal Cn is determined based on the operation information of the identified unused terminal Cn and the identified new terminal Cd. The asset information storage unit 23 stores the terminal identification information of the terminal C being managed and the user identification information of the user in association with each other.

  Since the unused terminal determination method in the unused terminal determination unit 24 is the same as in the first embodiment, detailed description thereof is omitted here. The terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn determined by the unused terminal determination unit 24 and the final operation information or the date and time of the final operation information are sent to the new terminal identification unit 27 and the asset information change determination unit 25.

  The new terminal specifying unit 27 acquires the user identification information of the user of the unused terminal Cn from the asset information storage unit 23 using the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn received from the unused terminal determining unit 24. Then, the operation information of the terminal C other than the unused terminal Cn is extracted from the operation information storage unit 22 according to the acquired user identification information, and the terminal identification information included in the extracted operation information is specified as the new terminal Cd. Thereby, the new terminal Cd newly used by the user of the unused terminal Cn is specified. Then, the terminal identification information of the identified new terminal Cd is sent to the asset information change determination unit 25. In specifying the new terminal Cd, it is preferable to extract and specify only operation information used after the date and time when the unused terminal Cn is no longer used. That is, the new terminal Cd is specified by extracting from the operation information storage unit 22 the operation information including date and time information after the date and time of the final operation information and terminal identification information other than the unused terminal Cn. Thereby, it is possible to specify the new terminal Cd with higher accuracy. Note that the method of extracting the operation information for specifying the new terminal Cd is not limited to the above-described method, and the operation information within a predetermined period such as the past one day, the past one week, or the past one month is extracted. Alternatively, the operation information may be extracted by adding necessary conditions as long as the purpose is achieved.

  There is no new terminal Cd newly used by the user of the unused terminal Cn in the process of specifying the new terminal Cd described above, that is, other than the unused terminal Cn based on the user identification information of the user of the unused terminal Cn. May not be extracted from the operation information storage unit 22. In this case, the asset information change determination unit 25 is notified that there is no new terminal Cd newly used by the user of the unused terminal Cn. Then, since there is no new terminal Cd, the asset information change determination unit 25 may determine that the unused terminal Cn has not made a transition, and based on only the operation information of the unused terminal Cn, FIG. It may be determined whether the terminal transition operation shown is being performed.

  Further, in the above-described process for identifying the new terminal Cd, it may be detected that a plurality of terminals C are used as the new terminal Cd. In this case, a plurality of new terminals Cd may be specified results, or only one new terminal Cd may be narrowed down. As a method of narrowing down to one new terminal Cd, the operation information of a plurality of terminals C identified as the new terminal Cd is extracted from the operation information storage unit 22, and the operation frequency and operation time are determined based on the extracted operation information. Utilization indicating the degree of utilization of the terminal C is calculated for each terminal C from the length and the like. It is preferable to compare the usage of each terminal C using the calculated usage and identify the terminal C having the highest usage as the new terminal Cd. The method for narrowing down one new terminal Cd is not limited to the above, and the operation information of the unused terminal Cn is compared with the operation information of each terminal C, the similarity is calculated with respect to the operation tendency, etc. The highest terminal can be used as the new terminal Cd, and any method may be used as long as the purpose is achieved. In this way, even when a plurality of new terminals Cd are specified, it is possible to narrow down those that are likely to be used on a daily basis from the operation information as new terminals Cd.

  The asset information change determination unit 25 receives the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn from the unused terminal determination unit 24, and receives the terminal identification information of the new terminal Cd from the new terminal identification unit 27. Using the received terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd, the operation information of the unused terminal Cn and the operation information of the new terminal Cd are extracted from the operation information storage unit 22. Then, by comparing the extracted operation information with a predetermined transition condition, transition between the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd is determined, and the necessity of changing the asset information of the unused terminal Cn is determined. Then, the determination result of the necessity for changing the asset information of the unused terminal Cn is sent to the control unit 26.

When a plurality of new terminals are specified by the new terminal specifying unit 27 and the terminal identification information is received, the asset information change determination unit 25 performs a transition between the unused terminal Cn and the specified new terminal Cd. It is determined for each new terminal Cd, and the necessity of changing the asset information of the unused terminal Cn is determined by taking the statistics of the results. Specifically, the necessity of the asset information of the unused terminal Cn may be individually determined for each new terminal Cd and the unused terminal Cn. In this case, it is preferable that the transition sufficiency of the maximum value among the new terminals Cd exceeding the threshold value be the necessity for changing the asset information. Moreover, although the transition sufficiency level of the maximum value is the necessity of the asset information, it is not limited to this and may be an average value or a minimum value.

  Next, the flow of processing of the asset information management system of this embodiment will be described using the flowchart of FIG. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that one new terminal Cd is specified by the new terminal specifying unit 27.

  First, the unused terminal determination unit 24 sets one terminal C among the managed terminals C as a determination target, determines whether the determination target terminal C is currently used, and if not used The terminal C is determined as an unused terminal Cn (# 11), and the terminal identification information and final operation information of the unused terminal Cn are sent to the asset information change determination unit 25 and the new terminal identification unit 27. Since the method for determining the unused terminal Cn is the same as that in the first embodiment, the description is omitted.

  The new terminal identification unit 27 acquires the user identification information of the user of the unused terminal Cn from the asset information storage unit 23 using the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn received from the unused terminal determination unit 24. Then, after the date and time of the final operation information, and using the user identification information, the operation information of the terminal C used by the user other than the unused terminal Cn is extracted from the operation information storage unit 22. The terminal identification information included in the extracted operation information is identified as a new terminal Cd (# 12). In FIG. 5, the date and time of the final operation information of the terminal “AB123456” is 17:04 on October 10, 2008, and the user identification information of the user of the terminal “AB123456” is “USR-IP-1837”. Since the terminal C used by the user having the user identification information “USR-IP-1837” after the date and time of the final operation information is the terminal “CD78901”, the terminal “CD789902” is specified as the new terminal Cd. be able to. Then, the terminal identification information of the identified new terminal Cd is sent to the asset information change determination unit 25.

  The asset information change determination unit 25 uses the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn received from the unused terminal determination unit 24 to operate the operation information of the unused terminal Cn (hereinafter, “unused terminal operation”) from the operation information storage unit 22. Information ”). Further, using the terminal identification information of the new terminal Cd received from the new terminal specifying unit 27, the operation information of the new terminal Cd (hereinafter referred to as “new terminal operation information”) is extracted from the operation information storage unit 22. The degree of transition sufficiency is calculated by comparing the extracted unused terminal operation information and new terminal operation information with a predetermined transition condition (# 13).

  For example, the terminal transfer operation in FIG. 9 is set, and the ratio of the number of operations that match the terminal transfer operation to the number of terminal transfer operations in the operation information in the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd is set as the transition sufficiency. Is calculated from the operation information of the unused terminal Cn “AB123456”, the terminal transition operations of order 4 to 7 and order 12 to 13 are obtained, and the operation information of the new terminal Cd “CD78901” is obtained from the order 1-2. Assuming that terminal transition operations in order 10 to 11 are obtained, the transition sufficiency is calculated as 10 / 15≈67%. Moreover, it is also possible to calculate the transition sufficiency by adding a weight as in the first embodiment. Furthermore, the operation order can be taken into account in calculating the transition satisfaction degree. If the operation information cannot be acquired in the order shown in FIG. 9, the transition satisfaction degree can be reset.

  In this embodiment, as the terminal migration operation, data migration work and data deletion are used as in the first embodiment, but it is particularly preferable to perform data migration operation from the unused terminal Cn to the new terminal Cd. It is. The data transfer operation from the unused terminal Cn to the new terminal Cd includes not only the case where data is directly transferred from the unused terminal Cn to the new terminal Cd, but also the case where the data passes through another terminal C. Further, various setting operations, installation operations, user switching operations, and the like in the new terminal Cd are also used as the terminal transfer operations. By using such a terminal transfer operation, it is possible to accurately determine the terminal transfer work from the unused terminal Cn to the new terminal Cd.

  The asset information change determination unit 25 sends the transition sufficiency calculated in this way to the control unit together with the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn and the terminal identification information of the new terminal Cd.

  The control unit 26 performs predetermined control according to the degree of transition satisfaction received from the asset information change determination unit 25 (# 14). As the predetermined control, it is preferable to automatically change the asset information related to the terminal “AB123456” of the asset information storage unit 23. For example, when the transition sufficiency exceeds a predetermined threshold THc, the asset information storage unit deletes the asset information of the unused terminal Cn “AB123456” from the asset information storage unit 23 because the possibility of transition is sufficiently high 23, the application information indicating the application installed in the unused terminal Cn “AB123456” is deleted. Further, if the transition sufficiency does not exceed the predetermined threshold value THc, it is recorded in the asset information of the unused terminal Cn “AB123456” in the asset information storage unit 23 that there is a possibility that the new terminal Cd “CD789902” may have been transferred. You can also Further, not only the asset information related to the unused terminal Cn “AB123456” is automatically changed but also the asset information related to the new terminal Cd “CD789010” can be automatically changed. Specifically, the transfer source information included in the asset information of the terminal “CD789902” in the asset information storage unit 23 includes the terminal identification information of the unused terminal Cn “AB123456” that is the transfer source, the date and time when the transfer is determined, and the like. Record it. The above is merely an example, and as predetermined control, the unused terminal Cn is notified to the administrator that the unused terminal Cn has transitioned to the new terminal Cd, the unused terminal Cn is registered as a non-permitted terminal, and the unused terminal that has undergone transition List display, report output, change of the display form of the unused terminal Cn that has been shifted in the terminal list display (bold character, change of character color, icon display, etc.) and various controls can be performed.

  Furthermore, in the above description, the processing is changed according to the value of the transition sufficiency received from the asset information change determination unit 25. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the necessity of changing the asset information is not limited to this. You may receive the determination result of presence / absence, and may control according to the determination result.

  The above processing (# 11 to # 14) is performed when the administrator designates the terminal C to be determined, or is managed at a predetermined timing (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, etc.). It can be used in various processing forms, such as sequentially executing all terminals C.

  Thus, in this embodiment, the unused terminal Cn is determined, the new terminal Cd used by the user of the unused terminal Cn is specified, and the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd Since it is possible to accurately determine the necessity of changing the asset information associated with the transition from the unused terminal Cn to the new terminal Cd by determining whether the operation related to the transition is performed, the management of the administrator regarding the unused terminal It is possible to reduce the burden.

[Another embodiment]
(1) In the above-described embodiment, the terminal transition operation is defined as a predetermined transition condition that defines terminal transition. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the following may be included.
(A) Combination of operations (b) Authority of user who operated (c) Usage period of terminal (d) Time and amount of operation (e) Distance between terminals Below, each of the above will be described in detail.

(A) Combination of operations The predetermined transition condition may be a set including a combination of operations for determining a transition operation in the terminal C. For example, in the case of migration of mail data, it is conceivable to export mail data from a mail application, and then copy a file created by the export to another terminal C. In such a case, as a combination of operations, the first operation can be combined as “export of mail data” and the second operation can be combined as “copy of export file”, and can be set as a predetermined transfer condition. Thus, by determining whether the combination of operations included in the predetermined transition condition exists in the operation information in the order of the first operation and the second operation, the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd It is possible to accurately determine that the transition work is being performed in step (b). Here, the case of mail data migration is described, but not limited to this, a combination of operations that can be completed by performing operations in a certain order for migration, such as migration of bookmarks, address books, files, etc. May be included in the predetermined transition condition. The operations set as combinations are not limited to the above-described operations, and other operations such as data import, user switching, file compression, and file expansion may be used. In addition, here, a combination of two operations is set as a predetermined transition condition, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a condition combining two or more operations can be set.

(B) Authority of the user who operated The authority of the user who performed the operation may be included as a predetermined transition condition. When deleting an application, deleting an account, or the like, it is necessary to perform an operation with a user having management authority of the terminal (for example, a user having Administrator authority). Therefore, a user information storage unit is further provided, and the user authority is acquired from the user information storage unit based on the user identification information included in the operation information in the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd. It is possible to determine whether the management authority is included and to determine whether the operation is performed by a user having the management authority. Thereby, it is possible to increase the accuracy of the determination as to whether the transfer work is being performed.

(C) Terminal usage period It is also possible to include conditions relating to the terminal usage period in the predetermined transition condition. Even if operations such as application installation and data migration are completed, the user does not always move to the new terminal Cd and perform operations on the terminal. Therefore, it is preferable to include in the condition that the usage period of the new terminal Cd exceeds a predetermined time. This makes it possible to exclude temporarily used terminals.

(D) Operation time and operation amount It is also possible to include a condition relating to the operation time as the predetermined transition condition. Due to the terminal migration, the operation time at the unused terminal Cn decreases, and the operation time at the new terminal Cd increases. For this reason, it is preferable that the conditions regarding the operation time at the unused terminal Cn and the conditions regarding the operation time at the new terminal Cd are included in the predetermined conditions. That is, it is possible to include conditions such that the operation time per predetermined period at the unused terminal Cn is less than or equal to a predetermined value and the operation time at the new terminal Cd is greater than or equal to a predetermined time. Here, although the operation time in the terminal has been described, any condition may be included as long as the condition is related to the operation time, such as the operation time for each application and the operation time for each file.

Further, it is preferable that not only the operation time but also the condition related to the operation amount is included in the predetermined transition condition. Similarly to the above, the operation amount at the unused terminal Cn is decreased by the terminal shift, and the operation amount at the new terminal Cd is increased. Conditions such that the operation amount per predetermined period at the unused terminal Cn is not more than a predetermined value and the operation amount at the new terminal Cd is not less than a predetermined time can be included. Here, the operation amount at the terminal has been described, but any condition may be included as long as it is a condition related to the operation amount, such as an operation amount for each application and an operation amount for each file. As described above, by including information on the operation time and the operation amount in the predetermined transition condition, it is possible to improve the accuracy of determination of terminal transition and perform control at an appropriate time.

(E) Distance between terminals It is also possible to include a condition regarding the distance between terminals as a predetermined transition condition. When terminal migration is performed, it is usual to perform work by placing unused terminals Cn and new terminals Cd at a close distance. Therefore, the condition that the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd are on the same segment on the network can be included. Further, by separately using the terminal position information, it is possible to include a condition that the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd are physically close to each other. That is, as long as it is a condition regarding the distance between the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd, it is not limited to the above, and any condition may be used as long as the purpose is achieved. As a result, it is possible to improve the accuracy of determination of terminal transition.

(2) In the second embodiment, the operation information of the unused terminal Cn and the operation information of the new terminal Cd extracted by the asset information change determination unit 25 are compared with a predetermined transition condition, and the necessity of changing the asset information In the asset information change determination unit 25, the operation information of the unused terminal Cn is compared with the operation information of the new terminal Cd, the similarity of the operation information is calculated, and when a predetermined threshold is exceeded, It can also be determined that the migration is complete. Accordingly, it is possible to determine the necessity of changing the asset information without setting the procedure for the migration operation in advance. In addition, this embodiment can be combined with the second embodiment to increase the accuracy of determination. Furthermore, when the similarity between the operation information of the unused terminal Cn and the new terminal Cd exceeds a predetermined threshold, and the degree of transition sufficiency by comparison with a predetermined transition condition exceeds a predetermined threshold TH In addition, it may be determined that there is a need to change the asset information. By doing in this way, it becomes possible to consider the time when the operation of the new terminal Cd by the user is similar to the operation of the unused terminal Cn used before the transition, and the necessity of changing the asset information The accuracy of judgment is improved.

(3) In the asset information storage unit 23, it is also possible to store the transition detection result in the unused terminal Cn. As a result, in order to manage assets such as software, when counting the number of used software, the unused terminals Cn that have been migrated are excluded or the software of the unused terminals Cn that have been migrated are excluded. The detection result of the migration work related to the unused terminal Cn, such as separately counting the number of units used, can also be used for management of assets such as software. In the above, counting the number of units used was described in the management of assets such as software, but this is not a limitation, and as long as the purpose is achieved, processing necessary for managing assets may be performed. In such a process, it is naturally possible to use the determination result of the migration work in the unused terminal Cn.

(4) In the above-described embodiment, it is determined that the determination target terminal C has not been used for a certain period of time, and an unused terminal is specified. It is also possible to determine that the terminal is not being used along with the unused terminal. For example, when the purpose of use of the terminal C to be determined is software development, the operation contents (build, compilation, etc.) performed on the terminal C, the operation target (integrated development environment software, source file, definition file, etc.), etc. are used. By setting in advance in a target operation storage unit (not shown), it is determined by comparing with the operation information whether the operation at the terminal C to be determined matches the purpose of use. In other words, the last operation information of the operation target (hereinafter referred to as “target operation target”) that matches the purpose of use is acquired, and the usage method according to the purpose of use is determined from the date and time of the last operation information and the current date and time. By calculating the time when it is not, it can be determined that the terminal is unused when this time exceeds a predetermined threshold. Furthermore, it can also be determined that the terminal is an unused terminal when the operation frequency for the target operation target in a certain period is equal to or lower than a predetermined frequency. In the above, software development is given as an example of the purpose of use, but the present invention is not limited to this.

(5) In the above-described embodiment, the final operation information is determined from the operation information storage unit 22, but a terminal usage information storage unit (not shown) that stores the terminal identification information of the terminal C and the last use date in association with each other. 2) and a terminal Cn may be determined by acquiring the last use date and time of the terminal C from the terminal usage information storage unit. That is, every time operation information is received from the terminal C by the operation information acquisition unit 21, the use date and time of the terminal C is extracted from the operation information, and the use date and time and the terminal identification information are associated with each other and a terminal use information storage unit (not shown). Remember me. Then, using the terminal identification information of the terminal C that is the target for determining the necessity of changing the asset information, the last use date and time is acquired from the terminal use information storage unit, and the last use date and the date and time of determination (current date and time). Etc.) is calculated as unused time. The calculated unused time and the predetermined time THn are compared, and when the unused time exceeds the predetermined time THn, the terminal C to be determined is determined as the unused terminal Cn. Furthermore, the unused terminal Cn can be determined depending on whether the last use date and time acquired from the terminal use information storage unit is before a predetermined past date and time. The date and time stored in the terminal usage information storage unit may be the date and time of predetermined operation information. Thereby, the processing load at the time of determining the unused terminal Cn can be reduced.

(6) In the second embodiment, the new terminal Cd is specified using the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit 22, but may be specified using asset information. That is, in the new terminal specifying unit 27, using the user identification information of the user of the unused terminal Cn, the terminal identification of the terminal C other than the unused terminal Cn associated with the same user identification information from the asset information storage unit 23. Information is acquired and the acquired terminal identification information is specified as the new terminal Cd. Thereby, the processing load at the time of specifying the new terminal Cd can be reduced.

(7) Although the terminal C that is the target of the necessity of changing the asset information is the terminal managed by the asset information storage unit 23, the present invention is not limited to this, and the terminal C that acquired the operation information is the target. You can also. For example, it is possible to specify the unused terminal Cn by acquiring the last operation information of the terminal C that has acquired the operation information at a predetermined timing and determining the unused time in the terminal C.

(8) In the above-described embodiment, the target of asset change is a terminal. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and software, hardware, an external device such as a printer or a scanner, an external storage device such as a USB memory, etc. need to be managed. Any object can be used as long as it is.

(9) In the above-described embodiment, the asset information management system is composed of a plurality of terminals C and the server S. However, a management terminal having a part of the functional unit of the server S is installed to achieve load distribution. You can also. Further, the terminal C may include the operation information acquisition unit 21, the operation information storage unit 22, the unused terminal determination unit 24, and the asset information change determination unit 25 of the server S. Moreover, it can also be set as the structure provided with all the function parts of the server S in the terminal C. As described above, the functional units of the asset information management system can be appropriately distributed.

System configuration diagram of asset information management system according to the present invention Conceptual diagram showing an example of hardware configuration Functional block diagram in the first embodiment of the asset information management system according to the present invention The flowchart showing the flow of the process in 1st Embodiment of the asset information management system by this invention. Example of operation information in the first embodiment of the asset information management system according to the present invention Example of terminal migration operation in the first embodiment of the asset information management system according to the present invention Functional block diagram in the second embodiment of the asset information management system according to the present invention The flowchart showing the flow of the process in 2nd Embodiment of the asset information management system by this invention. Example of terminal migration operation in the second embodiment of the asset information management system according to the present invention

Explanation of symbols

S: Server C: Terminal Cn: Unused terminal Cd: New terminal 11: Operation information transmission unit 21: Operation information acquisition unit 22: Operation information storage unit 23: Asset information storage unit 24: Unused terminal determination unit 25: Asset information Change determination unit 26: control unit 27: new terminal specifying unit

Claims (4)

An asset information storage unit for storing asset information including terminal identification information of a managed terminal;
An operation information storage unit for storing operation information representing operations on the terminal;
Based on the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit, among the terminals of the asset information storage unit, an unused terminal determination unit that determines an unused terminal as an unused terminal;
Asset information management comprising: an asset information change determination unit that determines the necessity of changing the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal using the operation information of the unused terminal included in the asset information storage unit system. The asset information storage unit stores terminal identification information of a terminal and user identification information of a user of the terminal in association with each other,
The user identification information of the user of the unused terminal is acquired from the asset information storage unit, and the new terminal used by the user is identified from the operation information of the operation information storage unit using the user identification information A new terminal identification unit that
The asset information change determination unit
2. The asset information according to claim 1, wherein the necessity of changing the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal is determined using the operation information of the unused terminal and the operation information of the new terminal. Management system. The asset information change determination unit
The operation information used for the determination is compared with a predetermined transition condition, and the necessity for changing the asset information is determined by calculating a transition sufficiency level indicating the degree of transition. The asset information management system according to claim 2. An asset information storage unit for storing terminal identification information of a managed terminal;
An asset management program for an asset management system comprising an operation information storage unit for storing operation information representing an operation on a terminal,
Based on the operation information stored in the operation information storage unit, among the terminals of the asset information storage unit, an unused terminal determination function for determining an unused terminal as an unused terminal;
Asset information that causes a computer to realize a terminal migration determination function that uses the operation information of the unused terminal included in the asset information storage unit to determine the necessity of changing the asset information related to the migration of the unused terminal Management program.

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