JP2003296142A - Monitoring system and monitoring information display method used therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a monitoring system capable of simultaneously monitoring a number of projects to be monitored. <P>SOLUTION: An entire project alarm importance level screen 1 and project- specific monitoring screens 2a, 2b and 2c are displayed on the WEB browser of a display mechanism 6. The entire project alarm importance level screen 1 comprises a project name display area 11 for displaying projects to be monitored by an observer, a maximum alarm importance level display area 12 for showing the value of the maximum alarm importance level of an alarm generated in each project, and a screen change button area 13 consisting of buttons 13a-13c for changing the screen to individual monitoring screen of each project. The project-specific monitoring screens 2a, 2b and 2c are screens for executing the monitoring specific to each project. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a monitoring system and a monitoring information display method used for the same, and more particularly to a monitoring method for collectively monitoring a plurality of projects in a large-scale system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a device or network monitoring system, when a plurality of projects (systems) are centrally monitored at the same location, a closed monitoring process is performed for each project.

However, in recent years, a monitoring service provider (Mana) who undertakes only monitoring work from a system operator.
As a result of the rise of the "Genuine Service Provider", the number of monitoring methods for consolidating and monitoring a plurality of projects at the same location is increasing.

[0004]

However, in the above-described conventional monitoring method, when the monitoring of a plurality of projects is centralized and carried out at the same location, the monitoring processing is closed for each project. A device for the monitoring screen of each project has to be installed, which causes a problem that the device cost and the installation place increase.

Further, in the conventional monitoring method, when the monitoring of a plurality of projects is centralized and carried out at the same location, the closed monitoring processing is performed for each project.
Since it is necessary to concentrate a large number of screens in one place and monitor the large number of screens, there is a problem that an alarm is overlooked.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and provide a monitoring system capable of simultaneously monitoring a large number of monitoring target projects and a monitoring information display method used therefor.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring system capable of reducing the procedure for calculating the maximum alarm importance and a monitoring information display method used therefor.

[0008]

A monitoring system according to the present invention is a monitoring system for monitoring alarm information issued from a monitoring target of each of a plurality of projects at a centralized monitoring center. The centralized monitoring center is provided with means for calculating the highest warning importance level of the generated warnings and means for displaying a list of the calculated maximum warning importance levels for each project on the screen.

Another monitoring system according to the present invention is a fault information storage means for storing all the alerts generated in each project, and a maximum alert alert for each project, which is provided independently of the fault information storage means. The centralized monitoring center is provided with a maximum alarm importance degree storing means for storing only the degree.

The monitoring information display method according to the present invention is a monitoring information display method of a monitoring system for monitoring alarm information issued from monitoring targets of each of a plurality of projects at a centralized monitoring center. The centralized monitoring center is provided with a step of calculating the highest warning importance level of the currently issued warnings and a step of displaying a list of the calculated maximum warning importance levels of each project on the screen.

Another monitoring information display method according to the present invention is a failure information storage means for storing all the warnings generated in each project and a maximum warning importance degree storage for storing only the maximum warning importance degree of each project. And means are provided independently of each other.

That is, the monitoring system of the present invention relates to integrated display of alarm information issued from monitoring targets of a plurality of projects and creation of data for realizing the integrated display.

In the monitoring system of the present invention, the highest alert importance level of the alerts currently occurring in the project is calculated for each project, and a screen for displaying the maximum alert importance level of each project is displayed. A means for moving to the monitoring screen specific to each project is added to the screen.

More specifically, in the monitoring information display method in the monitoring system of the present invention, the all-project warning importance screen is normally displayed on the display mechanism which is a screen on which the supervisor performs the monitoring work. The all project alert importance screen is composed of the project name area, maximum alert importance area, and screen transition button elements.

The project name display area is an area for displaying a project name, which is a set of station buildings to be monitored by the monitoring system. The maximum warning importance area is an area showing the highest importance among the warnings generated in each project. The screen transition button area is an area for arranging buttons having a function of transitioning to a screen specialized for monitoring the corresponding project.

The project-specific monitoring screen is a screen specialized for monitoring individual projects. The operator executes monitoring operations such as confirmation of alarm status of devices belonging to the project and confirmation of performance monitor information on the project-specific monitoring screen.

When the operator presses a button in the screen transition button area of the all project alert importance screen, the display screen transitions to the project-specific monitoring screen. Normally, for monitoring a plurality of projects, displays for the number of projects are prepared, and a monitor screen specific to the project is prepared. With this method, it is necessary to expand the installation location as the number of displays increases as the number of projects to be monitored increases. In addition, since it becomes difficult for the operator to gaze at a large number of screens at the same time, the possibility of alarm detection omission increases.

In the monitoring system of the present invention, by displaying the maximum alarm importance level of each project on one screen, the risk of a supervisor overlooking the alarm is reduced, and a serious alarm is output from a project. Since it becomes easier for the observer to make an action plan such as taking measures, it becomes possible to simultaneously monitor a large number of projects to be monitored.

Further, in the monitoring system of the present invention, the storage unit for holding the information of all the alarms being generated and the storage unit for holding the maximum alarm importance of the current project are separately installed. The maximum alert importance level can be calculated by searching only the storage section of the maximum alert importance level that has a small number of items when a failure occurs, so the procedure for calculating the maximum alert importance level can be reduced. .

[0020]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a display screen according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, on the WEB browser of the display mechanism 5, the all-project alert importance screen 1 and the project-specific monitoring screens 2a, 2b,
2c is displayed.

The all-project alert importance screen 1 is a project name display area 11 for displaying the target projects that the supervisor is monitoring, and the maximum alert importance (alert severity The maximum alert importance level display area 12 showing the value of (the scale shown) and the button 13 for transitioning to the individual monitoring screen of each project
and a screen transition button area 13 including a to 13c. Project-specific monitoring screens 2a, 2b,
Reference numeral 2c is a screen for carrying out monitoring unique to each project.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of the monitoring system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG.
The monitoring system according to the first embodiment of the present invention comprises a centralized monitoring center 4, a display mechanism 5, projects 6 and 7, and a data communication path 100.

The centralized monitoring center 4 has a receiving server 41, a maximum alert importance degree calculating section 42, a file creating section 43, a display file 44, a display server 45, a failure information storage section 46, and a maximum alert importance degree storage. And part 47.

The reception server 41 receives an alarm from the monitored station building. The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 is the receiving server 41.
Alert notification event is notified from and the maximum alert importance for each project is calculated. The file creation unit 43 creates a monitoring information screen including the maximum alert importance level for each of the current projects 6 and 7.

The display file 44 is a file created by the file creating section 43. The display server 45 communicates with the external display mechanism 5 and sends the display file 44. The fault information storage unit 46 stores information on all alarms of the projects 6 and 7 currently occurring. The maximum alarm importance degree storage unit 47 stores the maximum alarm importance degree of the alarms currently generated in all the devices of the projects 6 and 7.

The display mechanism 5 is provided with a polling mechanism 51 for periodically receiving the display server 45 of the centralized monitoring center 4 to acquire the display file 44 and displaying it on a screen (not shown).

Each of the projects 6 and 7 is a management unit of monitoring work, and includes a plurality of stations 61-1 to 61-i, 71-1.
71-j. Stations 61-1 to 61-i, 7
1-171-j is a device management system 62-1 to 62-
i, 72-1 to 72-j and a plurality of monitored devices 63-
1-63-i, 73-1 to 73-j.

Device management systems 62-1 to 62-i, 7
2-1 to 72-j are a plurality of monitored devices 63-1 to 63
-I, 73-1 to 73-j are monitored, and the monitoring target device 63
The alarms issued from -1 to 63-i and 73-1 to 73-j are received and transferred to the receiving server 41. The data communication path 100 includes the receiving server 41 and each device management system 62.
It provides communication with -1-62-i, 72-1 to 72-j.

Specifically, the display mechanism 5 is a WEB browser,
The display server 45 uses technology such as a WEB server, and the display file 44 uses HTML (Hyper-Tex).
t Markup Language) file format is used, but is not limited thereto.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the procedure for creating a screen showing the maximum alarm importance level of each project 6, 7 in the centralized monitoring center 4 of FIG. With reference to these FIGS. 1 to 3, each project 6 in the central monitoring center 4
A procedure of creating a screen indicating the maximum alarm importance degree of 7 will be described.

The receiving server 41 is a device management system 62-
1-62-i, 72-1 to 72-j, when receiving the warnings issued (step S1 in FIG. 3), the receiving server 41 updates the failure information storage unit 46 based on the information transferred by the received warnings. Is performed (step S2 in FIG. 3).

Subsequently, the receiving server 41 notifies the maximum alarm importance degree calculating section 42 of the project name of the source of the received alarm and the alarm importance degree of the alarm (step S in FIG. 3).
3). The maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 refers to the information in the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 47 to calculate the maximum warning importance degree of the project (step S4 in FIG. 3).

When the alarm importance is updated to a new value in step S4 (step S5 in FIG. 3), the file creating unit 43 receives the instruction from the maximum alarm demand calculating unit 42 and creates the display file 44. Perform (Step S in FIG. 3)
6).

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of the failure information storage unit 46 of FIG. In FIG. 4, the failure information storage unit 46 is divided into a storage area 46a for project A and a storage area 46b for project B on a project-by-project basis.

In these storage areas 46a and 46b, for one alarm, the station name 461 at which the alarm is issued
("Aa station", "bb station"
n ”,“ xx station ”,“ yy stati ”
on ”) and the time 462 (“ 2002 /
02/03, 13:01:00 "," 2002/02 /
03, 15:01:00 "," 2002/02/02,
15:01:00 "," 2002/02/03, 15:
01:00 ”) and the device name 463 (“ e
equipment 1 "," equipment 1 "
2 ”,“ equipment 3 ”) and an alarm name 464 (“ loss of frame ”), which is the type of alarm.
e ”,“ opt in down ”,“ loss of
signal ”) and the alarm importance degree 465 are stored.

The alarm importance level 465 is a value relatively indicating the severity of the alarm (Normal, Warning, Mino).
r, Majar, Critical, etc.) and a value indicating that a previously generated alarm has been recovered.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the operation of step S2 of FIG. 3 with reference to FIGS.
The operation of step S2, that is, the procedure for updating the failure information storage unit 46 by the receiving server 41 will be described.

The receiving server 41 is a project 6, 7
Device management systems 62-1 to 62-i, 72-1 to 7-7
2-j receives a warning, the storage areas 46a, 4a of the project stored in the failure information storage section 46 are stored.
6b is accessed (step S11 in FIG. 5). The alarm importance level 465 indicates the importance level of the generated alarm and also has a value indicating that the previously transmitted alarm is released.

The receiving server 41 judges whether or not the alarm importance of the alarm received this time is "recovery" indicating the cancellation of the alarm (step S12 in FIG. 5). If the alarm importance is not "recovery", reception is performed. The storage areas 46a, 46 of the project in the failure information storage section 46 according to the alarm information
A new entry is added to b (step S1 in FIG. 5).
3).

If the alert importance level is "recovery", the receiving server 41 indicates the "device name" indicated in the message of the received alert.
Also, the device name 463 and the alarm name 464 of the failure information storage unit 46 are searched based on the "alarm name" and the corresponding entry is deleted (step S14 in FIG. 5).

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 47 of FIG. In FIG. 6, the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 47 stores a project name 471 and a current maximum warning importance degree 472 in the project in association with each other.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an operation procedure of the maximum warning importance degree calculating section 42 of FIG. The operation procedure of the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7.

When a warning is issued, the receiving server 41 notifies the maximum warning importance calculating section 42 of the project name in which the warning is issued and the warning importance of the warning (step S in FIG. 7).
21). The maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 acquires the current maximum warning importance degree 472 of the project from the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 47 (step S22 in FIG. 7).

The maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 determines whether or not the notified alarm importance degree is "recovery" (step S2 in FIG. 7).
3) If the warning importance is not "recovery", it is determined whether the notified warning importance is more serious than the current maximum warning importance of the project (step S24 in FIG. 7).

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 is notified of the maximum alert importance degree 472 of the project in the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 when the notified alert importance degree is the more serious alert importance degree. Update to the alarm importance level (step S25 in FIG. 7), and display the file 44 in the file creation unit 43.
And issues an instruction to create and ends its own processing. Further, the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 ends its own processing if the notified warning importance degree is not the more serious warning importance degree.

Further, if the notified alarm importance level is "recovery", the maximum alarm importance level calculation section 42 will display the failure information storage section 4
Warning severity 465 of all entries of the project of 6
Is searched for the maximum alarm importance degree in the entry (step S27 in FIG. 7).

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 determines the maximum alert importance degree stored in the project storage areas 46a and 46b of the fault information storage unit 46 and the maximum alert importance degree of the project in the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47. The importance is compared (step S28 in FIG. 7).

If the maximum alarm importance level of the alarm stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is smaller, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 has lowered the level of the maximum alarm importance level by the "recovery" notification. Therefore, the maximum alert importance of the project in the maximum alert importance storage 47 is updated to the alert importance of the received notification (step S29 in FIG. 7).
The file creation unit 43 is instructed to create the display file 44 (step S30 in FIG. 7).

Further, if the maximum alarm importance level stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is not lighter, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 sends an alarm having the same alarm importance level to the project. Since it means that it exists, the maximum alarm importance degree storage unit 47 is not updated, and the processing of the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 itself is ended.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the operation procedure of the polling mechanism 51 of the display mechanism 5 of FIG. The operation procedure of the polling mechanism 51 will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 8.

When the polling mechanism 51 is activated, it waits for a certain period of time (step S31 in FIG. 8), sends an acquisition request for the display file 44 to the display server 45 of the centralized monitoring center 4, and the display server 45 loads the display file. It is received (step S32 in FIG. 8).

The display mechanism 5 displays the all project alert importance screen 1 on the screen based on the display file received by the polling mechanism 51 (step S33 in FIG. 8). After this, the polling mechanism 51 again waits for a fixed time (step S31 in FIG. 8).

As described above, in the present embodiment, by displaying the maximum alarm importance levels of the projects 6 and 7 on the same screen, the risk of the supervisor overlooking the alarm is reduced, and a serious alarm is issued. Since it becomes easy for the observer to make an action plan such as taking action from the projects 6 and 7, it is possible to simultaneously monitor a large number of monitored projects.

Further, in the present embodiment, the failure information storage unit 46 which holds information on all the alarms that are occurring and the maximum alarm importance degree storage unit 47 which holds the maximum alarm importance degree of the current project are separated. Since the maximum alarm importance level can be calculated by searching only the maximum alarm importance level storage unit 47 having a small number of items when a failure occurs, the maximum alarm importance level calculation procedure can be reduced. be able to.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the structure of a fault information storage section according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 9, the second embodiment of the present invention has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 except that the configuration of the failure information storage unit 46 is different. Will not be described.

The fault information storage unit 46 according to the second embodiment of the present invention has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 4, except that a notification ID 466 is added as a new item. The same components are designated by the same reference numerals.

That is, the failure information storage section 46 is divided into a project A storage area 46c and a project B storage area 46d for each project. In these storage areas 46c and 46d, for one alarm, the station name 461 (“aa stati
on ”,“ bb station ”,“ xx stat ”
ion ”,“ yy station ”) and the time 462 (“ 2002/02/03, 13: 0 ”) when the alarm was issued.
"1:00", "2002/02/03, 15: 01: 0"
0 "," 2002/02/02, 15:01:00 ",
"2002/02/03, 15:01:00") and the device name 463 ("equipment") at which the alarm is issued.
1 "," equipment 2 "," equipme "
nt 3 ”) and the alarm name 464, which is the type of the alarm.
("Loss of frame", "opt in
"down", "loss of signal"),
Warning importance 465 and notification ID 466 (“1001”,
"1004", "1001", "1002") are stored respectively.

The alarm importance level 465 is a value relatively indicating the severity of the alarm (Normal, Warning, Mino).
r, Majar, Critical, etc.) and a value indicating that a previously generated alarm has been recovered.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the operation when the receiving server 41 according to the second embodiment of the present invention receives an alarm from the device management system. With reference to these FIG. 2, FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, device management systems 62-1 to 62- having the receiving server 41 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
The operation when an alarm is received from i, 72-1 to 72-j will be described.

When an alarm is received from the device management systems 62-1 to 62-i and 72-1 to 72-j of a certain project 6 or 7, the receiving server 41 stores the project in the fault information storage unit 46. Storage areas 46c, 4
6d is accessed (step S41 in FIG. 10). The alarm importance level 465 indicates the importance level of the generated alarm and also has a value indicating that the previously transmitted alarm is released.

The receiving server 41 searches whether or not the warning importance of the warning received this time is "recovery" (step S in FIG. 10).
42) If the alarm importance is not "recovery", a new entry is added to the storage areas 46c and 46d of the project in the failure information storage unit 46 according to the received alarm information (step S43 in FIG. 10). .

If the alarm importance level is "recovery" indicating that the alarm is released, the receiving server 41 notifies the failure information storage unit 46 based on the notification ID of the alarm to be recovered which is indicated in the message of the received alarm. The ID 466 is searched and the corresponding entry is deleted (step S44 in FIG. 10).

As described above, in this embodiment, in addition to the effect of the first embodiment of the present invention described above, the search key in the numerical value is used to improve the search efficiency in the failure information storage section 46. be able to.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the structure of a monitoring system according to the third embodiment of the present invention. 11, the monitoring system according to the third embodiment of the present invention includes an event notification unit 48 in the centralized monitoring center 4 instead of the file creation unit 43, and a notification reception unit in the display mechanism 5 instead of the polling mechanism 51. The configuration is the same as that of the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 except that 52 is provided, and the same components are designated by the same reference numerals.

The notification receiving unit 52 is assumed to be a Java (R) applet downloaded from a WEB server, and the event notifying unit 48 is a TCP / IP (Transmission) created by the Java (R) applet.
Control Protocol / Internet
A module that sends data to the (Protocol) socket by the TCP / IP protocol is assumed.

FIG. 12 shows the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 4 of FIG.
It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of 2. The operation of the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 will be described with reference to FIGS. 11 and 12.

In the present embodiment, the maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 gives an instruction to the event notification unit 48 instead of the file creation unit 43 when the maximum alert importance degree is updated.
That is, when an alarm occurs, the receiving server 41 notifies the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 of the project name in which the alarm occurred and the alarm importance degree of the alarm (step S in FIG. 12).
51). The maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 acquires the current maximum warning importance degree of the project from the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 47 (step S52 in FIG. 12).

The maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 determines whether or not the notified alarm importance degree is "recovery" (step S in FIG. 12).
53) If the warning importance is not "recovery", it is determined whether the notified warning importance is more serious than the current maximum warning importance of the project (FIG. 12, step S5).
4).

If the notified warning importance is more serious than the notified warning importance, the maximum warning importance calculation unit 42 notifies the maximum warning importance of the project in the maximum warning importance storage 47. Update to importance (step S in FIG. 12)
55), the display mechanism 5 currently connected to the display server 45 via the display server 45 to the event notification unit 48.
To notify the maximum alert importance of the changed project (step S5 in FIG. 12).
6) and terminates its own processing. Further, the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 ends its own processing if the notified warning importance degree is not the more serious warning importance degree.

On the other hand, if the alarm importance level is "recovery", the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 searches the values of the alarm importance levels 465 of all the entries of the project in the failure information storage unit 46, The maximum alarm importance degree in step S57 is searched (step S57 in FIG. 12).

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 calculates the maximum alert importance degree stored in the storage area of the project of the fault information storage unit 46 and the maximum alert importance degree of the project of the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47. The comparison is made (step S58 in FIG. 12). If the maximum alarm importance level of the alarm stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is smaller, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 means that the level of the maximum alarm importance level has been lowered by the "recovery" notification. Therefore, the warning importance of the project in the maximum warning importance storage 47 is updated to the warning importance of the received notification (step S5 in FIG. 12).
9).

After that, the maximum alert importance degree calculating unit 42 has changed the notification receiving unit 52 of the display mechanism 5 currently connected to the display server 45 to the event notifying unit 48 via the display server 45. It gives an instruction to notify the maximum warning importance of the project (step S60 in FIG. 12), and finishes its own processing.

If the maximum alarm importance level of the alarms stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is not lighter, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 determines that the alarms having the same level of alarm importance level are relevant to the project. Therefore, the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 is not updated and the process of itself is terminated.

As described above, in this embodiment, in addition to the effects of the first and second embodiments of the present invention described above, when the maximum alarm importance level is updated to the display mechanism 5, it is asynchronous. By making the notification, it is possible to promptly notify the monitor of the event change. Further, in this embodiment, the display mechanism 5 and the centralized monitoring center 4 do not perform polling by the display mechanism 5.
It is possible to reduce network traffic between and.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing the structure of a monitoring system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. 13, the monitoring system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 except that a confirmation input section 53 is added to the display mechanism 5. The same components are designated by the same reference numerals.

FIG. 14 is a view showing the concept of displaying the maximum alarm importance degree realized in the fourth embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 14, the maximum warning importance level G1 is the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 4
The maximum alarm importance level stored in No. 7 increases at time G3 and G4 when the maximum alarm importance becomes more serious, and decreases at time G5 when the maximum alarm importance becomes smaller.

On the other hand, the maximum alarm importance level G2 is the maximum alarm importance level displayed on the display mechanism 5, and the time G
3 and G4, but when the maximum alarm severity becomes smaller, the previous state is retained as the display state at time G5, and the user of the display mechanism 5 presses the confirmation input (time G6).
Then, it is reflected in the value stored in the maximum warning importance storage 47. In FIG. 14, the information reflection delay due to the polling interval is ignored.

FIG. 15 shows the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 4 of FIG.
It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of 2. These FIG. 13-
The operation of the maximum warning importance degree calculating section 42 in the fourth exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

In the present embodiment, the maximum alarm importance degree calculating section 42 instructs the file creating section 43 to create the display file 44 only when the maximum alarm importance degree becomes more serious when an alarm is received from the device. To do.

That is, when an alarm is issued, the receiving server 41 notifies the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 of the project name in which the alarm is issued and the alarm importance degree of the alarm (FIG. 1).
5 steps S61). The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 acquires the current maximum alert importance degree of the project from the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 (step S62 in FIG. 15).

The maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 determines whether or not the notified alarm importance degree is "recovery" (step S in FIG. 15).
63) If the warning importance is not "recovery", it is determined whether the notified warning importance is more serious than the current maximum warning importance of the project (FIG. 15, step S6).
4).

If the notified warning importance is more serious than the notified warning importance, the maximum warning importance calculator 42 notifies the maximum warning importance of the project in the maximum warning importance storage 47. Update to importance (step S in FIG. 15)
65), and gives an instruction to create the display file 44 to the file creating section 43 (step S66 in FIG. 15), and finishes its own processing. Further, the maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 ends its own processing if the notified alert importance degree is not more serious.

If the notified alarm importance level is “recovery”, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 searches the values of the alarm importance levels 465 of all entries of the project in the failure information storage unit 46, and retrieves the value of that entry. The highest alarm importance level is searched (step S67 in FIG. 15).

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 determines the maximum alert importance degree stored in the storage area of the project of the failure information storage unit 46 and the maximum alert importance degree of the project of the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47. In comparison (step S68 in FIG. 15), if the maximum alarm importance of the alarm stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is smaller, it means that the level of the maximum alarm importance has been lowered by the "recovery" notification. Therefore, the warning importance of the project in the maximum warning importance storage 47 is updated to the warning importance of the received notification (step S69 in FIG. 15). In this case, the maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 does not give an instruction to the file creation unit 43 and ends its own processing.

Further, if the maximum alarm importance degree of the alarms stored in the failure information storage unit 36 is not lighter, the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 determines that an alarm having the same alarm importance degree is the project concerned. Therefore, the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 is not updated and the process of itself is terminated.

FIG. 16 is a flow chart showing the operation for acquiring the current maximum alert importance level of the project when the confirmation input of the project is input from the display mechanism 5 of FIG. With reference to these FIGS. 13 and 16, the operation of acquiring the current maximum alert importance degree of the project when the confirmation input of the project is input from the display mechanism 5 will be described.

When the confirmation input of the project is pressed on the display mechanism 5 (step S71 in FIG. 16), a notification indicating the pressing is sent from the WEB browser of the display mechanism 5 to the display server 45 of the centralized monitoring center 4. Then, the display server 45 notifies the maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 that the confirmation input of the project has been received.

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 retrieves the maximum alert importance degree of the project from the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 (step S72 in FIG. 16), and issues a display file creation instruction to the file creation unit 43 (Fig. 16 steps S
73). The display mechanism 5 receives this display file 44 by the periodic reception of the display file 44 by the polling mechanism 51, and updates the display of the WEB browser (step S74 in FIG. 16).

As described above, in this embodiment, in addition to the effects of the above-described first and second embodiments of the present invention, the maximum alarm that has been generated until the monitor presses the confirmation response. By holding the importance level, it is possible to obtain an effect that the alarm importance level is increased when the monitor is not gazing at the screen, and the event that has become minor due to the restoration of the failure is not overlooked.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing the structure of a monitoring system according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention. 17, the monitoring system according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention has the same configuration as that of the third embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 11, except that a confirmation input section 53 is added to the display mechanism 5. The same components are designated by the same reference numerals.

FIG. 18 shows the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 4 of FIG.
It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of 2. The operation of the maximum warning importance degree calculating unit 42 according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 17 and 18.

The maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 gives an instruction to the event notification unit 48 only when the maximum alarm importance degree becomes a more serious alarm importance degree when an alarm is received from the device.
That is, when an alarm occurs, the receiving server 41 notifies the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 of the project name in which the alarm occurred and the alarm importance degree of the alarm (step S in FIG. 18).
81).

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 acquires the current maximum alert importance degree of the project from the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 (step S82 in FIG. 18). The maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 determines whether or not the notified alarm importance degree is “recovery” (step S83 in FIG. 18). If the alarm importance degree is not “recovery”, the notified alarm importance degree is currently It is determined whether or not it is more serious than the maximum alert importance level of the project (step S84 in FIG. 18).

If the notified warning importance is more serious than the notified warning importance, the maximum warning importance calculation unit 42 notifies the maximum warning importance of the project in the maximum warning importance storage 47. Update to importance (step S in FIG. 18)
85), and gives a notification instruction of the new maximum alert importance level of the project to the event notification unit 48 (step S in FIG. 18).
86) and terminates its own processing. Further, the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 ends its own processing if the notified warning importance degree is not the more serious warning importance degree.

If the notified alarm importance level is “recovery”, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 searches the values of the alarm importance levels 465 of all the entries of the project in the failure information storage unit 46, and retrieves the value of the entry. The highest alarm importance level is searched (step S87 in FIG. 18).

The maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 determines the maximum alert importance degree stored in the storage area of the project of the fault information storage unit 46 and the maximum alert importance degree of the project of the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47. The comparison is made (step S88 in FIG. 18).

If the maximum alarm importance degree of the alarm stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is smaller, the maximum alarm importance degree calculation unit 42 has lowered the level of the maximum alarm importance degree by the "recovery" notification. Therefore, the warning importance of the project in the maximum warning importance storage 47 is updated to the warning importance of the received notification (step S89 in FIG. 18).
In this case, the maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 does not give a notification instruction to the event notification unit 48 and ends its own processing.

Further, if the maximum alarm importance level of the alarms stored in the failure information storage unit 46 is not lighter, the maximum alarm importance level calculation unit 42 determines that an alarm having the same alarm importance level is the project concerned. Therefore, the maximum alert importance degree storage unit 47 is not updated and the process of itself is terminated.

FIG. 19 is a flow chart showing the operation of acquiring the current maximum warning importance level of the project when the confirmation input of the project is input from the display mechanism 5 of FIG. With reference to these FIGS. 17 and 19, the operation of acquiring the current maximum alert importance level of the project when the confirmation input of the project is input from the display mechanism 5 will be described.

When the confirmation input of the project is pressed on the display mechanism 5 (step S91 in FIG. 19), a notification indicating the pressing is sent from the WEB browser of the display mechanism 5 to the display server 45 of the centralized monitoring center 4. Then, the display server 45 notifies the maximum alert importance degree calculation unit 42 that the confirmation input of the project has been received.

The maximum warning importance degree calculation unit 42 retrieves the maximum warning importance degree of the project from the maximum warning importance degree storage unit 47 (step S92 in FIG. 19) and notifies the event notification unit 48 of the notification of the maximum warning importance degree. A transmission instruction is issued (step S93 in FIG. 19). Upon receiving the notification, the display mechanism 5 updates the display of the WEB browser.

As described above, in this embodiment, the third embodiment of the present invention is used.
This embodiment has both the effect of reducing the reflection time and the traffic volume by the asynchronous notification in the embodiment described above, and the effect of preventing the monitoring person from missing the alarm in the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

[0103]

As described above, the monitoring system of the present invention is a monitoring system for monitoring alarm information issued from monitoring targets of a plurality of projects at a centralized monitoring center. By calculating the highest warning importance level of the existing warnings and displaying the calculated maximum warning importance level for each project on the screen, it is possible to monitor a large number of monitored projects at the same time. can get.

Another monitoring system of the present invention is a failure information storage means for storing all the warnings generated in each project, and a maximum warning importance degree storage for storing only the maximum warning importance degree of each project. By independently providing the means, it is possible to reduce the procedure for calculating the maximum warning importance.

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FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a display screen according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a monitoring system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for creating a screen showing the maximum alert importance level of each project in the centralized monitoring center of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of a failure information storage unit in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of step S2 of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of a maximum alarm importance degree storage unit of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of a maximum warning importance degree calculation unit in FIG.

8 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of a polling mechanism of the display mechanism of FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a configuration of a fault information storage section according to the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing an operation when a receiving server according to a second embodiment of the present invention receives an alarm from a device management system.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a monitoring system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing an operation of the maximum warning importance degree calculation section 42 in FIG.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a monitoring system according to a fourth example of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a display concept of maximum alert importance realized in a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing the operation of the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit in FIG.

16 is a flowchart showing an operation of acquiring the current maximum alert importance level of a project when a confirmation input of the project is input from the display mechanism of FIG.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a monitoring system according to a fifth example of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing the operation of the maximum warning importance degree calculation unit of FIG.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart showing the operation of acquiring the current maximum alert importance level of a project when a project confirmation input is input from the display mechanism of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 All project alert importance screen 2a, 2b, 2c Project-specific monitoring screen 4 Central monitoring center 5 Display mechanism 6,7 project 11 Project name display area 12 Maximum alarm importance level display area 13 Screen transition button area 13a-13c buttons 41 Receiving server 42 Maximum alert importance calculation section 43 File Creation Department 44 display files 45 display server 46 Fault information storage 46a Storage area for project A 46b Storage area for project B 47 Maximum alarm importance storage 48 Event notification section 51 Polling mechanism 52 Notification receiver 53 Confirmation input section 61-1 to 61-i, 71-1 to 71-j station building 62-1 to 62-i, 72-1 to 72-j Device management system 63-1 to 63-i, 73-1 to 73-j Monitored device 100 data channels 461 Office name 462 time 463 Name of the device that generated the alarm 464 Alarm name 465 Warning importance 466 Notification ID 471 Project name 472 Maximum alarm importance

Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A monitoring system for monitoring, by a centralized monitoring center, alarm information issued from monitoring targets of each of a plurality of projects, and having the highest alert importance level of the alerts currently occurring in the project for each project. The monitoring system characterized in that the centralized monitoring center has means for calculating the above, and means for displaying a list of the calculated maximum alarm importance levels for each project on the screen. 2. The monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein when the button provided on the screen is pressed, the centralized monitoring center includes means for transitioning to a monitoring screen specific to each project corresponding to the button. 3. A fault information storage means for storing all the alerts generated in each project, and a maximum alarm provided independently of the fault information storage means and storing only the maximum alert importance of each project. The monitoring system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the centralized monitoring center includes an importance storage means. 4. When an alarm is issued from the monitoring target, a display file constituting a maximum alert importance screen of each project is updated in the centralized monitoring center, and the screen is displayed by polling from a display mechanism including the screen. The monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring system is updated. 5. When an alarm is issued from the monitoring target, an event of a change in the maximum alert importance of the project in which the alert is issued is asynchronously notified from the centralized monitoring center to a display mechanism having the screen, and the maximum alert importance is issued. The monitoring system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the screen of the degree is updated. 6. When the maximum alarm importance of the project becomes more serious, the state is reflected in the maximum alarm importance display on the screen, and when the maximum alarm importance becomes smaller, the screen is displayed. 6. The state reflection of the maximum alarm importance level is reflected in response to an external confirmation notification of the alarm without reflecting the state of the maximum alarm importance level above. The described surveillance system. 7. A method for displaying monitoring information of a monitoring system, wherein a centralized monitoring center monitors alarm information issued from monitoring targets of each of a plurality of projects. Calculating the highest alert importance,
And a step of displaying the calculated maximum alert importance for each project on a screen as a list in the centralized monitoring center. 8. The monitoring information display method according to claim 7, wherein when a button provided on the screen is pressed, a transition is made to a monitoring screen specific to each project corresponding to the button. 9. A fault information storage means for storing all the warnings generated in each project and a maximum warning importance degree storage means for storing only the maximum warning importance degree of each project are independently provided. 9. The monitoring information display method according to claim 7, which is characterized in that. 10. When an alarm is generated from the monitoring target, a display file forming a maximum alert importance screen of each project is updated in the centralized monitoring center, and the screen is displayed by polling from a display mechanism including the screen. 10. The monitoring information display method according to claim 7, wherein the monitoring information is updated. 11. When a warning is issued from the monitoring target, an event of a change in the maximum warning importance of the project in which the warning is issued is asynchronously notified from the centralized monitoring center to a display mechanism having the screen, and the maximum warning is important. 11. The monitoring information display method according to claim 7, further comprising updating the degree screen. 12. When the maximum alarm importance level of the project becomes more serious, the status is reflected in the maximum alarm importance level display on the screen, and when the maximum alarm importance level becomes smaller, the screen is displayed. 12. The state of the maximum alarm importance level is reflected in response to an external confirmation notification of the alarm without reflecting the state of the maximum alarm importance level. How to display the described monitoring information.