JPH10171844A - Device for collecting operational log - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operational log collecting device in which analysis at the time of the generation of a trouble can be easily attained by collecting not only key input and pointing device input data but also a display output signal. SOLUTION: A video signal converted so that key input information from a keyboard or the like and cursor information from a pointing device or the like can be visualized respectively by a key code displaying means 15 and a cursor information displaying means 14 is multiplexed on a video signal outputted from an information processor 1 by a multiplexing device 17, and recorded in an image recording device 16 such as a video recorder so that an operational log can be collected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operation log collecting apparatus which enables an information processing apparatus to reproduce and analyze an input history.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an input history recording / reproducing method capable of reproducing an input history related to information processing, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 4-123237 discloses a method provided from an input device to an information processing device main body. The input data is recorded on a recording medium in a time series, and the input data recorded on the recording medium is reproduced in the recording order by designating an arbitrary period of the period in which the input data is inputted in a time series. An input history recording / reproducing method has been proposed. In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-84830, a test command input from the outside at the time of testing a load module is recorded in a sequential execution command recording file.
There has been proposed a software test execution support system that reads a previous test command from the file in the recording order and tests the load module.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, in an information processing apparatus, indefinite information input / output from the outside such as the Internet, and, for example, OLE (object linking and
embedding), it is very difficult to follow the input to the information processing device by communication between tools that do not pass through the conventional input port such as a keyboard, and exchange with a constantly updated database. These problems cannot be dealt with in a method of storing a command input history from an input device such as a keyboard as in a conventional method.

That is, input data from the outside constantly fluctuates, and there is no guarantee that the phenomenon will always be constantly reproduced during reproduction even if the same operation as before reproduction is performed.

[0005] Further, the amount of information to be stored has become considerably enormous due to the development of network technology and the like.
M (random access memory), HDD (hard disk device), and the like also have a problem that all input / output data cannot be completely stored.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to collect troubles not only by key input and pointing device input data but also by display output signals. An object of the present invention is to provide an operation log collection device that facilitates analysis at times and improves operability and maintainability.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, an operation log collecting apparatus according to the present invention uses key code display means, key code information from input means and cursor information from position indicating means, respectively. The video signal is converted into a video signal so that it can be visually recognized by the cursor information display means, multiplexed with the video signal to the display means, and recorded in the image storage means.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, key input information input from an input unit such as a keyboard supplied to an information processing apparatus (1 in FIG. 1) is branched by a branching unit (11 in FIG. 1). The key input information is distributed to means (15 in FIG. 1) for converting the key input information into a visual signal so that the video signal output from the information processing device (1 in FIG. 1) to the display device (4 in FIG. 1) can be obtained. The image data obtained by branching and multiplexing the key input information converted into the video signal by the multiplexing unit (17 in FIG. 1) is recorded in the storage unit (16 in FIG. 1).

In the embodiment of the present invention, cursor information from a position indicating means (pointing device) such as a mouse is supplied to the information processing apparatus, and the cursor information is supplied to the information processing apparatus by the branching means (12 in FIG. 1). Is also branched into a means (14 in FIG. 1) for converting a video signal into a video signal so that the user can visually recognize it.
An image signal obtained by splitting the video signal output to the multiplexing unit with the cursor information converted into the video signal and / or the key input information converted into the video signal by the multiplexing unit (17 in FIG. 1). Is stored in the storage means (16 in FIG. 1).

In the embodiment of the present invention, a video recorder is preferably used as a memory for recording the multiplexed signal.

As described above, in the embodiment of the present invention, not only key input and pointing device input data but also display output signals are collected.

The operation log collecting apparatus of the present invention collects not only key input data and pointing device input data but also display output signals, thereby facilitating analysis when a trouble occurs.

[0013]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, this embodiment includes an information processing apparatus main body 1, a keyboard 2, a pointing device 3 such as a mouse, a display device 4, a key input signal branching unit 1.
1, a pointing device signal branching unit 12, a video signal branching unit 13, a cursor information display unit 14, a key code display unit 15, an image multiplexing unit 17, and a video recorder 16.

The operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

Key information input by the user from the keyboard 2 is input by the key input signal splitting means 11, and cursor information operated by the pointing device 3 is input by the pointing device signal splitting means 12.
Branched in the direction. That is, one of the key information is passed to the information processing apparatus 1 by the key input signal branching unit 11, and the other is input to the key code display unit 14, converted into an image signal, and passed to the image multiplexing unit 17. Similarly, one of the cursor information is passed to the information processing apparatus 1 by the pointing device signal branching unit 12 and the other is input to the cursor information display unit 15 and converted into an image signal. Passed.

The information processing apparatus 1 operates according to key information and cursor information designated by the user, but changes every moment due to a LAN (local area network) or a communication device (not shown) connected to the information processing apparatus 1. Therefore, it is difficult to reproduce the operation of the information processing apparatus 1 only by key operation and cursor information.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, the processing result of the information processing device 1 is passed by the video signal branching means 13 to the display 4 device and the image multiplexing means 17.

The image multiplexing unit 17 integrates the images obtained from the cursor information display unit 14, the key information display unit 15, and the image branching unit 13 into one image signal, and transmits the image data to the image input terminal of the video recorder 16. Supply.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an embodiment of the present invention, and shows an example in which data recorded on the video recorder 16 of FIG. 1 is reproduced by a reproducing device mounted on the video recorder 16. FIG. Referring to FIG. 2, a video signal output from information processing apparatus 1, a keyboard input (nihon in the figure) multiplexed and inserted by image multiplexing means 17, and pointing device information (mouse press button information, movement information, etc.). Is played.

As shown in FIG. 2, according to this embodiment, it is possible to easily reproduce what kind of operation the user has performed in what kind of scene. In general, video recorders have a slow playback device and rewind function,
It is possible to carefully analyze the operation for a specific scene. As a result, operation tracing in an information processing apparatus that handles external signals such as a network can be easily performed.

Further, since the video recorder is a commercially available product, the log collecting apparatus of the present embodiment has a simple configuration, is inexpensive, and is easy to operate.

In this embodiment, although it is not possible to directly analyze an abnormality in the information processing apparatus such as a memory, an abnormal state in the display device of the information processing apparatus is indicated by a form such as a dump report. In many cases, such abnormal information is recorded as a video signal.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention,
With the configuration in which the output information from the information processing device is stored as image information together with the input information, it is possible to easily reproduce what kind of operation the user has performed in what kind of scene.

Further, according to the present invention, since the operation history is preferably reproduced by the video recorder, there is an effect that the operation trace can be easily performed in the information processing apparatus which handles an external signal such as a network.

Further, according to the present invention, there is an effect that the cost of the log collection device is reduced.

According to the present invention, there is an advantage that the history of an abnormal state or the like on the display of the information processing apparatus is recorded as a video signal.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a log reproduction result.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information processing apparatus 2 Keyboard 3 Pointing device 4 Display 11 Key input signal branching unit 12 Pointing device signal branching unit 13 Image branching unit 14 Cursor information display unit 15 Key code display unit 16 Video recorder 17 Image multiplexing unit

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. Key input information from an input means and cursor information from a position indicating means are converted into video signals so that they can be visually recognized by a key code display means and a cursor information display means, respectively. An operation log collection device, wherein the operation log collection device multiplexes the image signal to a display device and records the multiplexed image signal in an image storage unit. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the key input information input from input means such as a keyboard is supplied to the information processing apparatus, and the key input information is also distributed to a means for converting the key input information into a video signal so as to be visually recognized. An operation log, wherein a signal obtained by multiplexing a video signal output from the device to a display device and multiplexing the branched video signal with the key input information converted into the video signal is recorded in a storage unit. Collection device. 3. The information processing apparatus supplies cursor information from a position indicating means such as a mouse to the information processing apparatus, and also distributes the cursor information to a video signal converting means so that the cursor information can be visually recognized. 3. A video signal output to a display device, and a signal obtained by multiplexing the split video signal with cursor information converted into the video signal is recorded in a storage unit. Operation log collection device as described.