JP2988389B2 - Monitoring screen restriction method for network monitoring systems - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a client for collectively managing the status of nodes connected on a network.
The present invention relates to a server system, and particularly to a display / control method of a monitoring screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional monitoring screen display method of displaying status information of all computer systems (nodes) connected to a network in a client / server system on a display screen of a monitoring terminal, a monitoring terminal operator is required. Will be displayed also for the nodes of the part that is not monitored.

For this reason, when there are many faults, when the operator looks at the monitoring screen, a large number of faulty marks are displayed, which makes it difficult to analyze the faults in a targeted manner. there were. As a centralized network monitoring method that enables the monitoring device to efficiently collect the states of all monitored devices, reference is made to, for example, the description of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-91565.

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional monitoring screen display method, when the monitoring terminal operator is monitoring, when there are many failures, and when the monitoring screen is viewed, There is a problem in that many faulty marks are displayed, and it becomes difficult to perform a fault analysis by focusing on a target to be monitored by the monitoring terminal operator.

[0005] The reason is that, when the status of a large number of nodes is displayed on the monitoring screen and a large number of marks indicating that there is a failure on the screen are displayed on the screen, the operator of the monitoring terminal displays This is because it is not possible to immediately determine and specify which range is a monitoring target range on a screen that is easy to monitor.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for easily narrowing down a target even when a large number of faults exist on a monitor screen of a client server system. Enables analysis,
An object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring screen display method which enables overall monitoring within a monitoring target and improves operability.

[0007]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a monitoring screen control system for a monitoring system for centrally and collectively managing the states of nodes connected to a network on a monitoring terminal screen. And / or means for setting and storing information as to whether or not to mask the display of fault information on a node-by-node basis. Is masked, and the status of the fault is displayed for the nodes in the monitoring target range.

The present invention preferably provides a client-server system for centrally and collectively managing the status of all systems and displaying the status of all systems on a server-side monitoring screen. An operation monitoring means for receiving node status / failure information from each node and transmitting the information to a monitoring terminal for monitoring by the manager; a node status / failure information; a node registered in advance or arbitrarily designated; State / fault information display means for receiving the status / fault information and displaying a screen representing the node status; status / fault information change screen display means for sequentially changing the status / fault information on the screen; From the definition file in which the status / failure information of the converted nodes is registered in advance for each node, and the status / failure information of each node and the definition file A management file in which information and information received from the status / failure information change screen display means are stored; and input / output of the management file and the definition file are controlled. State / fault information control means for inputting information from the fault information receiving means and sending information to the status / fault information display means; and receiving status / fault information of each node from the operation monitoring means, State / fault information receiving means for sending node information to the fault information control means, and definition file creating means for registering a definition for fixing status / fault information on a node-by-node basis. And

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below. According to the embodiment of the present invention, the monitoring screen display method of the network monitoring system,
Nodes outside the monitoring range can be registered in a normal state on the monitoring screen even if the status of the node changes.

More specifically, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in a preferred embodiment, a definition file (8 in FIG. 1) for storing node status / failure status on a screen and information of the definition file are created in advance. A definition file creating means (6 in FIG. 1) for storing the information, and a status / failure information control means (6) for reading the definition file and transmitting the status / fault information to the status / fault information display means (2 in FIG. 1). 1 in Fig. 1)
And state / fault information display means (2 in FIG. 1)
The status / fault information of each node of all systems and the information input from the definition file (8 in FIG. 1) are received, and the status / fault information is displayed on the monitoring screen. Then, in order to easily monitor the status of the nodes on the screen, the management file (7 in FIG. 1) storing the status / failure information on the screen and the current status / failure information of each node of all the systems is stored. Have.

According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, when a hierarchical display of all system nodes is designated on the monitoring screen, the status / fault information control means (4 in FIG. 1) controls the management file (FIG. 1). 7) of the information is received,
Because the status is displayed on the screen, even if the node status is displayed hierarchically, the status / failure information defined on the screen is inherited as it is.

In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the status of a node on the monitoring screen can be changed by an instruction from the monitoring screen to facilitate monitoring. Specifically, a status / failure information change screen display means (3 in FIG. 1) for displaying an instruction screen for instructing a change of a node state on the screen is provided.

As described above, according to the monitoring screen display method according to the embodiment of the present invention, the definition file creating means (FIG. 1)
According to 6), the definition for fixing the state / failure information on a terminal basis can be registered in the definition file (6 in FIG. 1).

According to the monitoring screen display method according to the embodiment of the present invention, the monitoring terminal operator displays a status / failure information change screen display means (see FIG. 1) for a failed node outside the monitoring range from the screen. According to 3), the state of the node can be fixed (constant state) on the screen. For this reason, when the status of a node outside the monitoring range is changed, the status information of the node is not changed on the screen, so that the node to be monitored can be targeted and monitored. It works.

Further, according to the monitoring screen display method according to the embodiment of the present invention, the real-time status / fault information of each node and the definition file (FIG. 1) 8) Information and status /
The status of the node can be displayed on the screen based on the information from the fault information change screen display means (3 in FIG. 1). Therefore, the monitoring terminal operator can perform efficient monitoring.

In the embodiment of the present invention,
The real-time status / fault information of each node by the status / fault information control means (2 in FIG. 1), status / fault information on a predefined screen, and status / fault information change screen display means (FIG. 1) The status / fault information on the screen designated by 1) is saved in the management file (7 in FIG. 1).
Therefore, even if a hierarchical screen display of the node status is designated, the status / failure information is stored.

[0017]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In order to describe the above-described embodiment of the present invention in further detail, the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, in this embodiment, the monitoring manager includes an operation monitoring unit 1, and the monitoring terminal includes a status / failure information display unit 2, a status / failure information change screen display unit 3, a status / failure. Information control means 4, state / fault information receiving means 5, definition file creating means 6
, A management file 7 and a definition file 8.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show examples of the contents of the management file 7 and the definition file 8, respectively. Referring to FIG. 2, the management file 7 includes information fields of status information, fault information, a status flag, and a fault flag for each node number. Referring to FIG. 3, a status flag and a failure flag are provided for each node number in the definition file 8.

The operator of the monitoring terminal has a status flag for fixing the status information of the screen even if the status of the node has changed, as shown in the definition file 3 shown in FIG. The definition file creation means 6 is used to define a failure flag and the like for fixing the failure information on the screen even if is changed. The definition file creating means 6 stores the information of the status flag and the failure flag in the definition file 8 of FIG.
To be stored.

In one embodiment of the present invention, during operation, the monitoring terminal operator cancels information of a status flag or a failure flag defined in advance by an instruction from a screen,
It is possible to add fixed information of the status flag and the failure flag, and add / delete temporary status information of the status flag and the failure flag.

This is performed using the status / fault information change screen display means 3, and the status / fault information change screen display means 3 is used.
Transmits the information of the status flag and the failure flag of the node for which the change instruction has been issued to the status / fault information control means 4.

The operation monitoring means 1 receives the status / fault change information from each node and transmits the status / fault change information to the status / fault information receiving means 5 of each monitoring terminal.

The status / fault information receiving means 5 receives the status / fault change information from the operation monitoring means 1 and passes the information to the status / fault information control means 4.

The status / fault information control finger 4 updates (rewrites) the status flag and fault flag of the management file 7 based on the status flag and fault flag information stored in the definition file 8 and displays the status / fault information. The information is transmitted to the means 2.

The status / fault information control means 4 receives the status flag and the fault flag from the status / fault information change screen display means 3, rewrites the status flag and the fault flag in the management file 7, and The information is transmitted to the display means 2.

When the status / fault information control means 4 receives the status / fault change information from the status / fault information receiving means 5, it rewrites the status information and fault information in the management file 7 and refers to the management file 7. And status flags,
When the fixed information is set as the failure flag, the state information and the failure information are not transmitted to the state / fault information display unit 2.

On the other hand, when the status / fault information control means 4 refers to the management file 7, when the status flag and the fault flag designate temporary screen status information, and when the status / failure flag indicates nothing, If not specified,
The status / fault change information is transmitted to the status / fault information display means 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, the management file 7 includes:
It is configured to include status information, fault information, a status flag, a fault flag, and the like. Among them, the status information includes the power ON and
The state of the node such as power-off / operating is shown, and the failure information indicates the state of failure of the node indicating normal / abnormal. The status flag indicates fixed status information that the screen status information is fixed even when the node status is changed, and the fault flag indicates that the screen fault information is fixed even when the node status is changed. Indicates fixed fault information.

The status flag and the failure flag in the management file 3 include "fixed screen status information" which does not change the display even when the status / failure change notification is received, and the status / failure change notification after the definition. There is "temporary screen state information" that changes the display when it comes.

The status / fault information display means 2 performs a process of displaying a screen showing status / fault information on a monitoring screen based on the information received from the status / fault information control means 4.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the processing flow of the embodiment of the present invention. The operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS.

The monitoring terminal operator uses the definition file creating means 6 of FIG. 1 to change the status flag and the failure flag as shown in the definition file of FIG.
Sets a fixed state information definition such as "fix state flag to power-off state."

Referring to FIG. 4, in the screen node state information pre-registration reading processing of step 11, state / fault information control means 4 sets “power OFF fixed” of node number 1 stored in definition file 8. The status flag information is read, and as shown in FIG. 2, the status flag of the node number 1 in the management file 7 is updated to “fixed power OFF”.
Further, the information of the status flag is transmitted to the status / failure information display means 2.

The status / fault information display means 2 having received the information of the status flag displays "power OF
A process for displaying a screen indicating the "F" state is performed.

In the node status change notification accepting process of step 12, the operation monitoring means 1 receives the status change notification of "power ON" for the node number 1, and sends the status change notification of the node to the status / fault information. Transmit to receiving means 5.

The status / fault information receiving means 5 which has received this information transmits the information to the status / fault information control means 4.

Referring to FIG. 4, the node determination processing in step 13 is performed in state / fault information control means 4 as follows. The status / failure information control means 4 determines that the status change information received from the status / fault information receiving means 5 is the “power-on” status information of the node number 1 and refers to the management file 7 shown in FIG. Since the status flag for “1” is “fixed power OFF”, this information is not transmitted to the status / fault information display unit 2.

When the status change notification information of "operating" is received for the node number 2, referring to the management file 7 shown in FIG. 2, the status flag is not specified for the node number 2, This information is transmitted to the status / fault information display means 2. The status / fault information display means 2
The screen is changed based on the received information (step 1 in FIG. 4).
4).

Next, in the monitoring judgment process in step 15 of FIG. 4, the monitoring terminal operator compares the case where it is difficult to monitor because of a large number of faulty nodes and the case where monitoring is continued without any change. If it is determined that monitoring is difficult because there are a large number of failed nodes, the screen node failure state of the screen is changed to “normal state fixed” for the node outside the monitoring target range, for example, node number 3, in the screen node state change processing of step 16. Is changed. At this time, the status / failure information change screen display means 3 is used.

The status / fault information change screen display means 3 transmits the information of “fixed normal status” of the specified fault flag to the status / fault information control means 4.

The state / fault information control means 4 having received the fault flag information performs a process of updating the fault flag for the node number 3 of the management file 7 to "normal state fixed" as shown in FIG. The status is transmitted to the fault information display means 2, and the status is changed to a normal status on the screen.

Thereafter, the state / fault information control means 4
Even if the failure information change information is received from the status / fault information receiving means 5 for the node number 3, the status / fault information display means 2 displays this fault information change information as long as the fault flag is designated. Is not transmitted, the failure state is not changed on the screen.

Further, in the monitoring judgment processing of step 15 in FIG.
When the instruction of the “temporary normal” state is given using the state / fault information change screen display means 3, the state / fault information control receiving the fault flag information from the state / fault information change screen display means 3 The means 4 transmits the information of the failure flag to the state / fault information display means 2 and is changed to a normal state on the screen.

Thereafter, when failure change information is received from the status / fault information receiving means 5 for the node number 2, the status / fault information control means 4 sets the fault flag to "temporarily normal".
Therefore, the information of the failure flag is deleted from the management file 7, the received failure information change information is transmitted to the status / fault information display means 2, and the fault change information is displayed on the screen. Will be.

[0046]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When a failure occurs in many nodes, the non-monitoring node or the node whose failure reason is known can be recovered on the screen, and only the failed node that you want to monitor can be displayed on the monitoring screen in a failure state. it can. For this reason, the present invention has an effect that the monitoring terminal operator can efficiently perform the failure analysis.

The reason is that, in the present invention, a node status change instruction is issued on the monitoring screen of the client / server system for collectively managing the status of all systems so that the monitoring terminal operator can easily monitor the status. By changing the state / failure state, failure analysis is facilitated and operability is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a management file according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a definition file according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 operation monitoring means 2 status / fault information display means 3 status / fault information change screen display means 4 status / fault information control means 5 status / fault information receiving means 6 definition file creation means 7 management file 8 definition file

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] In a monitoring screen control method of a monitoring system for centrally and collectively managing the status of nodes connected to a network on a monitoring terminal screen, information on whether to mask the display of node status and / or fault information is provided. Means to set the status of each node outside the monitoring target range on the monitoring screen.
By masking the display of the failure information, even when the status of the non-monitored node changes, the display of the status of the node is restricted, and the failure status is displayed only for the nodes within the monitoring range. A monitoring screen control method characterized by the following. 2. The monitoring screen control system according to claim 1, further comprising means for fixing the status of the node and the information of the failure displayed on the screen in a fixed or temporary manner. 3. In a client-server system for centrally managing the status of all systems and displaying the status of all systems on a monitoring screen on the server side, the status of all systems is monitored by a monitoring manager on the server side. Operation monitoring means for receiving node status / failure information from each node and transmitting the information to the monitoring terminal; node status / failure information; node status / failure information registered or arbitrarily specified in advance State / fault information display means for receiving a screen representing the node state, status / fault information change screen display means for sequentially changing the state / fault information on the screen, A definition file in which status / fault information is registered for each node in advance, status / fault information of each node, information input from the definition file, and the status / A management file information received from the failure information change screen display unit is stored, and controls the input and output of the management file and the definition file, the said state / failure information change screen display unit status /
State / fault information control means for inputting information from the fault information receiving means and sending information to the status / fault information display means; receiving status / fault information of each node from the operation monitoring means; State / fault information receiving means for sending node information to the fault information control means, and definition file creating means for registering a definition for fixing state / fault information on a node-by-node basis. The monitoring screen control method of the network monitoring system.