JPH02282859A - Remote state display processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the load of the service offering side in a horizontal cooperation system where a certain computer offers the service to another one by making use of the resources of the computer requesting the service to perform the state display. CONSTITUTION:A state display request accepting part 14 collects the state information via a state sense processing part 15 when the state display is requested for its own device and produces a screen layout via a state display processing part 18 to output it to a display device 19. If the state display is requested to the service offered by a 2nd computer 12, a state sense request transmission part 16 sends a state sense request to the computer 12. The computer 12 has a mechanism to send the state information or the like on the offered service back to a 1st computer 11 without processing these information or the like. Thus the computer 12 can produce the information to be displayed at the service requesting side. As a result, the load of the computer at the service offering side is reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Summary] The present invention relates to a remote status display processing method for displaying the status of a remote computer in a horizontal cooperation system in which a plurality of computers are connected.

Accepts requests to display the status of remote computers for the purpose of providing a means to reduce the load on the computer on the service providing side when the status of the computer on the service providing side is displayed on the computer requesting the service. Status display requests are accepted by the department and remote computers.
a status sense request transmitter that sends a status sense request; a status sense information return unit that returns status sense fi1 information from a remote computer in response to a status sense request without processing it to match the screen display format; The computer includes a status display processing unit that edits one-screen display information based on the received status sense information and displays status sentiment, and displays the status of the computer providing the service and requests the service. Configure it to display using side resources.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a remote status display processing method for displaying the status of a remote computer in a horizontal cooperation system in which a plurality of computers are connected.

In horizontal cooperation between computers, there are often no differences in the resources or performance of each system, so in order to display the status of a specific computer providing a service, it is possible to display the status of a specific computer providing a service using the resources of the computer providing the service. The load will be on the computer that is providing the service. It is necessary to distribute the load on this particular computer as much as possible.

[Conventional technology] FIG. 5 shows an example of the prior art.

For example, in the case where computer A is the computer requesting the service and computer B is the computer providing 4 Novices, conventionally, the computer A requesting the service performs processing like a terminal device. Computer B, which provides the service, is the boss I.
It was normal to perform processing similar to that of a computer.

Therefore, in the conventional remote j/status display, from computer 8 to computer B on the service provider side,
When a request is made to display the status, the :I Novita B side edits the screen display information about the status and displays the status sense information.
After processing ll, the processed results were output to the request source.

That is, as shown in Fig. 5, in response to a remote status display request, a status display command is activated on the service provider side, and as part of that process, the status of the service content, etc. is sensed, and one display is displayed. Create a screen layout to be used and transfer the screen layout to the request source.

The requesting computer A displays the received screen layout as it is on a display or the like.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in the conventional remote status display, the resources of the computer B on the service providing side are used to display the status once.

In response to status display requests from multiple requesters at the same time.

Resources for the number of requests will be used at the same time.

Problems have arisen in that the processing load on the service provider side increases, resulting in poor service processing performance and response.

In addition, when computer A locally displays the status within its own device, it is necessary to create a screen layout, but this screen layout should be the same as the screen layout that computer B uses (il+! Unless it is in this format, it will not be possible to unify it, so there is a problem that computer A cannot freely select hg collection form 2.

The present invention aims to solve the above problems, and aims to provide a means for reducing the load on the computer on the service provider side when the status of the computer on the service provider side is displayed on the computer requesting the service. The purpose is Furthermore, the purpose is to enable the service requesting side to create its own screen layerer 1 if necessary.

(Means for solving problems) FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle configuration of the present invention.

In the figure, 11 is a first computer requesting a service;
12 is a second computer that provides a service; 13 is an input device such as a keyboard; 14 is a status display processing unit that accepts local and remote status display requests; attachment unit 115 is a status sense processing unit that reads requested status; , 16 is a status sense request transmitter that sends a status sense request in response to a status display request to the remote, and 17 is a status sense information tg return unit that sends back collected status sense (ff information).

I8 represents a status display processing unit that edits screen display information and displays status information, one represents a display device such as a CRT display, and 20 represents a printing device.

The status display request light receiving unit 14 receives requests for displaying various statuses through a menu or the like. When the display of the status of the own device is requested, the status information is collected by the status sense processing unit 15.

The status display processing unit 18 creates a one-screen layout and outputs it to the fifth display device I9.

If a status display for a service provided by the second computer 12 is requested, the status sense request transmitter I6 sends a status sense request to the second computer 12.

When the second computer I2 receives the state sense request, it collects the state sense information in its own device and returns the state sense information as it is to the request source without processing it to match the one-screen display format.

The status display processing unit 18 uses the returned status sense information as
It is edited and processed in the same way as the status display of 0-Cal and displayed on the 1 display device 19.

Although two Conbuque cooperation systems 14, the first computer 11 and the second computer 12, are illustrated here, the same applies to systems in which more computers are connected. Also.

In a system in which the service requester and the service provider are not fixed in a fixed manner, it is also possible to display the status remotely to each other.

C action] To the second computer 12 on the service provider side/7.
-') - The first computer 1 on the hiss request side sends a status sense request, and the second computer 2 sends it to the first computer 11 without processing the status information etc. for the service it is providing. Since a send-back mechanism is provided, the information to be displayed can be created on the service requesting side.

Editing of status display information can be shared between local and remote cases.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 shows a processing flow of an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 4 shows an example of status display according to an embodiment of the invention.

An example of application of the present invention to remote printing status display in a horizontal coordination system will be described below.

In FIG. 2, 30 is an input/output device such as a display/keyboard, 31 is an application processing section, 32 is a print status display command processing section, 33 is a printer client, 34 is a printer control section, 35 is a print server, and 36 is an application processing section. 37 is a printer control unit, and 38A and 38B are printers.

In the print status display command processing unit 32 shown in FIG. 2, the status display request lighting unit 14, status sense processing unit 15, and status display processing unit 18 shown in FIG. 1 are implemented. A part of the printer client 33 corresponds to the status sense request transmitter 16 shown in FIG. A part of the server 35 corresponds to the status sense information return section 17 shown in FIG.

Printer control units 34 and 37 respond to print requests from application processing units 31 and 36, respectively.
This controls the output to 8B.

Further, the printer control unit 34. ．． 37 notifies information in response to a print status sense request.

The printer client 33 includes a printer control unit 34.3.
7, and the interface to the request source is the same as the interface to the local printer control unit 34. Upon receiving the request 5, the request is sent over the line to the print server 35 in the second computer 12.

The print server 35 transmits the request from the service requester to the printer control unit 37 and returns the result to the printer client 33.

When there is a print status display request from the input/output device 30, the print status display command processing unit 32 requests the printer control unit 34 to sense the status of the blink 38A, and requests the printer control unit 34 to sense the status of the printer 38B. , by requesting the printer client 33 to sense the status, similar status display is performed for local/remote.

Application processing section 31 and print status display command processing section 32
Print requests and status sense requests from 1, for example, are realized by 2-order calls.

(i) For a print request r d -open (printer name, mode, parameters)
−= 1vrite(rd, data, byte R
) close(rd) (ii) For status sense request f d = open (printer name 2 mode, parameter)... 1octl (rd, request, buffer un=-close(f d) Here, function 1octl( ) is a function that controls the input/output relationship.The target device is specified by fd, the sense request is specified as a request, and the sense information storage buffer address is specified as a buffer.Function open(n, function c
In lose(), processing similar to normal file open processing and file close processing is performed.

The process flow of printing status display according to an embodiment of the present invention is as follows:
The processes shown in FIG. 13 are as follows.

(2) When printing status display is selected manually from the menu input/output device 30 shown in FIG. 2, the printing status display command processing unit 32 is activated.

■ Determine whether the printer whose status is to be displayed is a local printer owned by the device itself or a remote printer owned by the fib device.

■ In the case of local, the printer control unit 3 in the own device
4, the printing status of the printer is read.

■ Create a two-screen layout based on the sensed gI information and display it on the input/output device 30. After that, if there is an instruction to change the 5 printers, control is returned to process (2), the process is repeated in the same way for the instructed printers, and the process is ended with an end instruction.

■ If the printer whose status is to be displayed is a remote one, the second computer 1 that has the printer
2, request state sense.

(2) The second computer 12 reads the printing status of the printer.

■ Return the state sense information to the requester without processing it. The request source uses process ■ to create a screen layout similar to the local one.

indicate.

FIG. 4 is an example of a print status display based on the created screen layout.

As shown in FIG. 4, the printing status of the printer is edited and displayed in the window. This format is the same for local and remote printers.

The example of printing status display has been described above.

Remote status display can be performed similarly for various statuses of other peripheral devices, applications, CPU loads, etc.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the third aspect of the present invention, the load on the service provider can be reduced by displaying the status using the resources of the computer on the service requesting side. In addition, since information is processed on the requesting side, not only information from the service provider side but also all information from other computers, including local computers, is integrated.
It is also possible to handle them at the same time.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows the basic configuration of the present invention. FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a processing flow according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 shows an example of status display according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 shows an example of the prior art. In the figure, 11 is a first computer, 12 is a second computer, 13 is an input device, 14 is a status display request lighting unit, 15 is a status sense processing unit, l6 is a status sense request transmission unit, and 17 is a status 18 is a state display processing section, 19 is a display device, and 20 is a printing device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a horizontal cooperation system in which a plurality of computers are connected and one computer provides a service to another computer, the first computer (11) requesting the service provides the service. a status display request receiving unit (14) that receives a status display request from the second computer (12); and a status sense request transmitting unit (16) that transmits a status sense request from the first computer to the second computer. )
and a state sense information return unit (17) that returns the state sense information from the second computer without processing it in accordance with the screen display format in response to the state sense request; , a status display processing unit (18) that edits screen display information and displays status information based on the received status sense information, and displays the status of the computer providing the service to the side requesting the service. A remote status display processing method characterized by using resources for display.