JPH0887252A - Controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily grasp individual conditions and group conditions of control objects on a display screen related to a group display method of a controller gathering and displaying the conditions of the control objects in particular. CONSTITUTION: This controller is provided with a condition detection means 13 of plural devices A-n being the control objects, a display means 11, a symbol display means 16 of symbols B-n corresponding to plural control objects and a group frame display means 17 grouping the control objects according to the conditions and framing the symbols of the control objects belonging to the same group on the display means. The group frame display means 17 compares the group to which oneself belongs with the group to which other control objects of which symbols are displayed adjacent belong related to all control objects, and when the fact that they belong to the groups different from each other is decided, a frame line is displayed between the symbol displays of both control objects, and when the fact that no symbols of other adjacent control objects exist is decided, the frame line is displayed on the outer edge of the display area of the display device.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of displaying a management device for a medium or a device, and more particularly to a group display method of a management device for collecting and displaying the status of managed objects.

In recent years, a large number of media and elements are often grouped and used as in the case where a plurality of magnetic disks are collectively used in a RAID system. In such a case, the management of the media and elements is appropriately performed. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for managing the management target objects by grouping them with arbitrary keys. Therefore, it is necessary to display it so that the group to which it belongs can be easily identified.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional management device for media / devices, management objects such as media / devices are managed individually, and information on a group to which the management object belongs (for example, the name of the group, the group (Specification of managed objects that belong to) was written individually in characters, or the display of managed objects was color-coded for each group. FIG. 12 shows a group name as characters in a conventional example. In the figure, 10 is a management device, which is a group of devices An (n is the number of devices. ) Manage and display 1
1 shows a group of characters that are symbols to be managed, B-n is a character display that shows the position on the display of a group of devices An that are management objects, and C-nx is a device that is A-n. Indicates that the device is in the state x, and C-ny indicates that the device A-n is in the state y.

However, in the conventional display method, it is not possible to easily discriminate the constitutional state of the group in the character display, and it is more difficult to discriminate the state of the group, and the color-coded display is used. Naturally, it is an essential condition that the management device can display in color.

[0005]

Therefore, it is not possible to easily grasp the individual state of the management target object such as the medium or device, the state of the group, etc., and there is a problem in the fineness and speed of the response. .

It is an object of the present invention to easily grasp the individual state and group state of managed objects on a display screen.

[0007]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the principle of the present invention. In the figure, 10 is a management device that manages a management target (here, a plurality of devices A-n that form the collective device 20), 11 is a display that manages the display of the management target, and 13 is a management target Object state detection means for detecting the state of the managed object, 16 for displaying the managed object on the display by the symbol display means, 17 for displaying the managed object group on the display by the group frame display means , A-n are devices to be managed (here, n is 1 to 15,
same as below. ) And B-n indicate the display on the display of A-n, and C-n indicates the display on the display of the group of A-n.

[0008]

In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the management device 10 detects the status of the plurality of devices A-1 to A-15 which are the management objects by the status detection means 13 which is one component of the management device. , Is stored in an array element on the memory, which is a component of the management device. When the position of each device is displayed on the display by the symbol display means 16 and there is no other device adjacent to each device (for example, for A-1, there is no other device on the left and above. There is no array element on the memory) and another device adjacent to it exists, but it is found that the stored content of the array element of the other device and the stored content of its own array element are compared and they belong to different groups. In this case (for example, for A-1, A-6 belongs to another group), a frame line is displayed on the display by the group frame display means 17 (for example, a device corresponding to the device A-1). Insert broken lines to the left, top and bottom of status display B-1.) When another device adjacent to each device exists and it is found that the stored contents of the array element of the other device are compared with the stored contents of its own array element to belong to the same group (for example, A-1 As for, A-2 belongs to the same group.)
Does not display a border on the display (for example, display B-1 corresponding to device A-1 and display corresponding to device A-2).
Do not put a frame line such as a broken line between B-2. ). Similarly, all devices to be managed can be divided into groups (here, five groups C-1 to C-5), and according to the state information included in the group or the array elements configuring the group, I am trying to change the type of frame line (here, the two groups C-1 and C-3 are surrounded by broken lines, and the three groups C-2, C-4, and C-5 are surrounded by solid lines. .). In the above example, the solid line and the broken line are used to change the type of the frame line, but it is naturally possible to change the display color of the frame line.

By thus displaying the devices of the same group surrounded by the same frame line, the same group can be easily identified. Also, by looking at the type of the surrounding frame line, the state of the group can be easily determined even if the display is monochrome.

[0010]

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention in which the invention of claim 1 is applied to an array disk management apparatus. In the figure, 10 is an array disk management device, and a display 11
A display control drive means 12 for controlling and driving the display, a state detection means 13 for detecting the state of the object to be managed and collecting the information, a memory 14 for storing the state of the object to be managed, and information Memory drive means 15 for reading data from the memory and for reading information from the memory, symbol display means 16 for controlling the display on the physical disk device display, and group frame display for controlling the display of the group frame of the physical disk device on the display. Including means 17,
Managing the status of the physical disk devices 2-1 to 2-15 built in the array disk device 20 as a whole and the status of the logical disk configured by the physical disk devices 2-1 to 2-15 Is. For details, state detection means
13 detects and collects the information of the physical disk device 2-n, and the memory drive means 15 stores the information of the physical disk device 2-n in the memory.
The array control elements on 14 are written, and the display control drive means 12 displays the necessary information of the information of the physical disk device 2-n on the display. As a specific example, the display 11 of the array disk management device 10 displays the physical disk device status 4-n as information of the physical disk device 2-n.
Is displayed, and the logical disk status 3-n is displayed as the information of the logical disk that is configured.

3 to 5 show a process of displaying a frame line of an arbitrary logical disk state 3-n in the above embodiment.
The invention is applied. In FIG. 3, when displayed on the display 11, for any physical disk device status 4-n, it is necessary to determine whether or not to display it around the physical disk device status 4-n of the frame lines 1 to 8. The positional relationship is shown. FIG. 4 shows a physical disk status management table 5-n corresponding to an arbitrary physical disk apparatus 2-n, which belongs to the physical disk status 5-n-1 which stores the status of the physical disk apparatus 2-n. It consists of belonging logical disk 5-n-2 which stores the logical disk name. FIG. 5 shows frame lines 1 to 8
7 is a flowchart of a process of determining whether to display. Hereinafter, description will be given according to the flowchart.

For any physical disk device of interest, the physical disk management table corresponding to the physical disk device, and the physical disk group table from the physical disk management table corresponding to the physical disk devices around the physical disk device of interest. (Affiliation Logical Disk 5-
Take in n-2) and proceed from (a) to (h). (A) If the disk device of interest does not belong to the same group as the physical disk whose screen position is on the top, a frame line 4 is displayed and comparison is made with the physical disk whose screen position is on the right (d) If it belongs to the same group as the physical disk whose screen position is on the top, the process proceeds to comparison (b) with the physical disks whose screen position is on the left and upper left. (B) If the physical disk device of interest and the physical disks whose positions on the screen are the left and upper left belong to different groups, the frame line 1 is displayed. In other cases, the positions on the screen are immediately changed. Proceed to the comparison (C) with the physical disks on the right and upper right. (C) If the physical disk device of interest and the physical disks whose positions on the screen are right and upper right belong to different groups, the frame line 2 is displayed, and in other cases, the positions on the screen are immediately changed. Proceed to the comparison with the physical disk on the right (d). (D) If the physical disk device of interest and the physical disk whose position on the screen are on the right belong to different groups, the frame line 6 is displayed. In other cases, the position on the screen is immediately moved downward. Go to comparison (e) with a physical disk. (E) If the physical disk device of interest and the physical disk whose position on the screen is lower belong to different groups, the frame line 8 is displayed. In other cases, the position on the screen is immediately changed to the left. Go to comparison (f) with a physical disk. (F) If the disk device of interest does not belong to the same group as the physical disk whose position on the screen is on the left, the frame line 5 is displayed and the display is terminated. In other cases, the position on the screen is changed. Proceed to the comparison (G) with the physical disks at the bottom and bottom left. (G) If the physical disk device of interest and the physical disks whose positions on the screen are lower and lower left belong to different groups, the frame line 3 is displayed. In other cases, the positions on the screen are immediately changed. Proceed to the comparison (h) with the physical disks at the top and top left. (H) If the physical disk device of interest and the physical disks whose positions on the screen are upper and upper left belong to different groups, the frame line 7 is displayed, and in other cases, the display is immediately terminated.

If there is no physical disk to be compared (for example, in the case of the lower right side of the physical disk device 2-15 in FIG. 2), it is treated as belonging to a different group. In this way, grouping can be performed for all physical disk devices.

FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 are explanatory views when the above-mentioned physical disk to be compared does not exist. FIG. 6 shows the configuration state of the logical disk, and FIG. 7 shows the display result in which a frame line is displayed by this processing. Are shown respectively.

FIG. 8 shows a physical disk state management table 5-n of FIG. 4 with a frame line display flag 5-n-3 added, which relates to the application of the invention of claim 3. The frame line display flag 5-n-3 records whether or not to display each of the frame lines 1 to 8. FIG. 9 is a flowchart for redisplaying when the frame line display flag 5-n-3 is added. When determining the display of the frame lines 1 to 8 according to the flowchart of FIG. 5, the actual display is not performed, but the corresponding information in the frame display flag is set. If the frame display flag 5-n-3 can be set for all physical disks, the frame is displayed according to the flowchart of FIG. When there is no change in the configuration of the logical disk, the determination process can be omitted even if it is displayed again.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a redisplay process for displaying a frame line only on an arbitrary logical disk.
It relates to application of the invention of claim 4. All the physical disks that make up the same logical disk need to be adjacent to each other, but if they appear as an enclave when they are displayed on the display 11, by not redisplaying the frame lines other than the specified logical disk, It is easy to identify what is displayed. FIG. 11 shows a logical disk status management table 6, which relates to application of the invention of claim 5. It consists of logical disk status 6-n which records the status of the logical disk. The logical disk status 6-n is updated when the status information of the array disk device 20 is collected. When displaying an arbitrary logical disk status 3-n on the display 11, by referring to the corresponding logical disk status management table 6-n and setting and displaying the type of frame line to be displayed, the logical disk status You can easily know the status.

The case where the present invention is applied to the array disk management device has been described above, but the present invention can also be applied to the library management device. In this case, the medium may be managed instead of the physical disk device, and the owner, the frequency of use, and the like may be managed instead of the logical disk.

[0018]

As described above, if the present invention is applied to a management device, the state of a managed medium or device can be easily discriminated, and further, when grouping is performed with an arbitrary key, the group The state of can be easily determined.
Further, not only a color display but also a monochrome display can be applied to the display unit of the management device, which increases the flexibility of the system configuration.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of display of a frame line.

FIG. 4 is a physical disk status management table.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a frame line display determination process.

FIG. 6 is an example of a logical disk configuration state.

7 is a display result of applying the present invention to FIG.

FIG. 8 is a physical disk status management table.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of redisplay processing.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of redisplay processing when a logical disk is designated.

FIG. 11 is a logical disk management status table.

FIG. 12 is a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 management device, array disk management device 11 display, display means 12 display control drive means 13 state detection means 14 memory 15 memory drive means 16 symbol display means 17 group frame display means 20 aggregate device, array disk device 2-n physical disk device 3-n Logical disk status 4-n Physical disk device status 5-n Physical disk status management table 5-n-1 Physical disk status 5-n-2 Assigned logical disk 5-n-3 Frame display flag 6 Logical disk status Management table 6-n Logical disk status A-n Device B-n Device status display C-n Group status display

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A means for detecting a state of a plurality of managed objects, a display means, a symbol display means for displaying symbols corresponding to the plurality of managed objects on the display means, and the managed object. A management apparatus, characterized in that the display means is provided with group frame display means for displaying a frame line so as to surround symbols of management objects belonging to the same group with a single frame in the display means. 2. The group frame display means according to claim 1, to which all managed objects belong to another managed object whose symbol is displayed adjacent to the group to which it belongs. If it is determined by comparing with the group that it belongs to different groups, it is determined between the symbol display of both managed objects, and if it is determined that there is no symbol of another adjacent managed object. Is a management device characterized by displaying a frame line on the outer edge of the display area of the display device. 3. The result of the group difference determination according to claim 2 is stored in a table corresponding to each managed object, and when the frame line is displayed again, it is displayed according to the contents of the table. Characteristic management device. 4. A management device using the table according to claim 3, wherein only symbols of an arbitrary group are surrounded by a frame and displayed. 5. The management device according to claim 1, wherein the color or type or the color and type of the frame is changed according to the state of the management target objects forming the group.