JP2007264907A - Fault notification system, fault notification method, and fault notification program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fault notification system, a fault notification method, and a fault notification program, for efficiently making a notification of a fault in a device to be monitored so as to reduce complexity. <P>SOLUTION: A management computer 21 of a monitoring system 20, when detecting a fault in the device 10 to be monitored, identifies a notification group from a fault event data storage section 22 for the fault. The management computer 21 records the fault when the identified notification group is during the notification management processing or already confirmed. The management computer 21, records new notification data and performs notification management processing when it is not being processed nor confirmed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a failure notification system, a failure notification method, and a failure notification program for notifying a person in charge when a failure occurs in a host computer or a server.

  Today, there are many cases in which a plurality of systems are used in a company, and the systems are constantly monitored in order to ensure the reliable operation of these systems. Thereby, when the occurrence of a failure is detected, a quick recovery operation can be performed. However, when a failure occurs in the system, there is a case where there is no person in charge for performing the recovery work.

Therefore, a technique is disclosed in which when a failure occurs, notifications are sequentially made to a plurality of managers (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In the invention described in Patent Document 1, the alert notification order is determined based on the management authority of each administrator. When the alert notification system detects that an event to notify the application of an alert has occurred, the alert notification system notifies the administrator having a predetermined management authority among the administrators of the application. When the administrator who has received the alert cannot take action, the next administrator is notified of the alert in the determined notification order. As a result, unnecessary alerts that are not directly related to individual managers need not be notified, and the response can be performed smoothly.
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-250760 (FIGS. 7 to 18)

  However, with the technique described in Patent Document 1, the administrator is notified every time a failure occurs. Therefore, for example, when a plurality of failures occur in one system or the like, a notification is made each time. In this case, even if the failure can be solved by a series of recovery operations, it becomes complicated if the notification is made many times. In particular, as in the technique described in Patent Document 1, when a notification is made each time a failure occurs while changing a notification target person, the number of notifications increases in a superimposed manner. Therefore, there has been a problem that it is impossible to report efficiently.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a failure notification system, a failure notification method, and a failure notification program that can perform notification efficiently and reduce complexity.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 provides a report group data storage unit that records a report group according to a failure event of a monitored device, and assigns a priority to each report group. Connected to the contact terminal, contact data storage means for recording data on the report destination, fault data storage means for recording data on the content of the fault that occurred, fault occurrence time and status status for each report group A notification group using the notification group data storage means based on the failure event of the failure when the management computer detects a failure in the monitored device. Using the group specifying means for specifying the status and the status status recorded in the failure data storage means. Status specifying means for specifying the report management status for the report group, and if the report management process is being performed for the report group, the process is continued; if the report management process is not being performed, the contact data Executes a process for recording information related to the fault for each report group in the fault data storage means while performing a report management process for reporting to the contact terminal of the person in charge of the report destination having a high priority using the storage means And a means.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the failure notification system according to the first aspect, when the management computer receives a notification confirmation from a contact terminal of a person who made the notification, the management computer stores the notification in the failure data storage means. Confirmation means for recording the confirmation information is further executed, and the notification management process measures an elapsed time from the notification, and when the confirmation information is recorded in the failure data storage means before a predetermined time elapses. If the confirmation information is not recorded in the failure data storage means even after the predetermined time has elapsed, the report destination of the next priority is specified from the contact data storage means, and this next priority The gist is to report to the contact terminal of the person in charge including the report destination of the ranking.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the fault notification system according to the first or second aspect, when the management computer is performing a notification management process for the notification group, the notification group data storage means stores the notification. The gist is that, when a failure relating to a failure event associated with a group occurs, the content of the failure and the failure occurrence time are recorded in the failure data storage means in association with the group.

  The invention according to claim 4 is a report group data storage means for recording a report group corresponding to a failure event of a monitored device, and a report in which data relating to a report destination is recorded with a priority assigned to each report group. Report using the destination data storage means, fault data storage means for recording data on the content of the fault that has occurred, fault occurrence time and status status for each of the report groups, and a management computer connected to the contact terminal. A group specifying step of specifying a report group using the report group data storage unit based on a fault event of the fault when the management computer detects a fault in the monitoring target device; and Using the status status recorded in the failure data storage means, a notification management status is sent to the specified notification group. If the status management stage for specifying the status and the notification management processing for the notification group are being performed, the processing is continued. If the notification management processing is not being performed, the contact data storage means is used to determine the priority order. And a process execution step of recording data relating to the fault for each report group in the fault data storage means while performing a report management process for reporting to the contact terminal of the person in charge of the high report destination And

  The invention according to claim 5 is a report group data storage means for recording a report group corresponding to a failure event of a monitored device, and a report in which data relating to a report destination is recorded by giving a priority to each report group. Report using the destination data storage means, fault data storage means for recording data on the content of the fault that has occurred, fault occurrence time and status status for each of the report groups, and a management computer connected to the contact terminal. A group identification unit for identifying a reporting group using the reporting group data storage unit based on a failure event of the failure when the management computer detects a failure in the monitoring target device; Using the status status recorded in the data storage means, the notification group is notified to the specified notification group. If the status identification means for identifying the status and the notification management processing for the notification group are performed, the processing is continued, and if the notification management processing is not performed, the contact data storage means is used to give priority. Summary of the invention is to perform notification management processing for reporting to the contact terminal of the person in charge of the higher-ranked reporting destination, and to function as processing execution means for recording data relating to the fault for each reporting group in the fault data storage means And

(Function)
According to the first, fourth, or fifth aspect of the present invention, when the management computer detects a failure in the monitored device, the management computer specifies the notification group using the notification group data storage unit based on the failure event of the failure. To do. The management computer specifies the report management state for the specified report group using the status status recorded in the failure data storage means. The management computer continues this notification management processing when it is performing notification management processing for the notification group. In addition, the management computer, when not performing the report management process, performs a report management process for reporting to the contact terminal of the person in charge of the report destination with a high priority using the contact data storage means, Data relating to the detected failure is recorded in the failure data storage means. That is, even if a new failure occurs, the management computer does not make a new notification when the notification group that deals with the failure that has occurred is the same. Therefore, for the management computer, it is possible to reduce the system load and suppress the notification efficiently by suppressing unnecessary notifications. On the other hand, since the person in charge does not receive notification individually even when a large number of failures occur continuously, the complexity can be reduced.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the management computer receives a notification confirmation from the contact terminal of the person who made the notification, the management computer records the confirmation information in the failure data storage means. In the notification management process, the elapsed time from the notification is measured, and when the confirmation information is recorded in the failure data storage means before the predetermined time has elapsed, the notification management process is terminated. For this reason, since it is possible to grasp that the person in charge of the reporting group has been contacted by the confirmation information, other persons in the same reporting group are not notified of the same failure event. Can be reduced. In addition, if the confirmation information is not recorded in the failure data storage unit even after the predetermined time has elapsed, the management computer specifies the report destination of the next priority from the contact data storage unit, Report to the contact terminal of the person in charge, including the priority report destination. For this reason, when the person in charge with high priority cannot be contacted, the number of report destinations can be cumulatively increased to the person in charge with low priority. Therefore, it is possible to deal with a failure that has occurred more quickly even when a report destination with a higher priority as much as possible is reported and when the report destination cannot be contacted.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, when the management computer performs the notification management process for the notification group, when a failure relating to the failure event associated with the notification group occurs in the notification group data storage means, The contents of the failure and the failure occurrence time are recorded in the failure data storage means in association with this group. For this reason, when a new failure occurs during the notification by the notification management process, the person in charge can confirm the failure that has occurred based on the content of the failure and the failure occurrence time recorded in the failure data storage means. Therefore, it is possible to confirm all the troubles that have occurred without receiving notification of each trouble that has occurred.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it can report efficiently with respect to the failure of a monitoring object apparatus, and can reduce complexity.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a failure notification system embodying the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
In order to monitor the monitoring target device 10, as shown in FIG. 1, a monitoring system 20 as a failure notification system of this embodiment is used. In the present embodiment, for example, a host computer or a server is used as the monitoring target device 10 to monitor the operating status and the presence / absence of a failure. The monitoring target device 10 is connected to the monitoring system 20 via the network N1. When a failure occurs, each monitoring target device 10 transmits a failure message related to the content of the failure that occurred (for example, a failure code for identifying the failure) to the monitoring system 20. Further, these monitoring target devices 10 periodically perform an operation check process, and when the operation check is completed, transmit this completion message data to the monitoring system 20. In this embodiment, the failure message and the end message include device specifying data for specifying the transmitted monitoring target device 10.

  The monitoring system 20 that monitors these monitoring target devices 10 includes a management computer 21 and performs processing (processing including a group specifying stage, a state specifying stage, a process executing stage, and the like) to be described later. By executing the failure notification program for this purpose, the monitoring system 20 functions as a group specifying unit, a state specifying unit, a process executing unit, and the like.

In addition, the management computer 21 is provided with time measuring means for measuring time. In the present embodiment, the system time is used to record time or measure time.
Furthermore, the management computer 21 includes a person-in-charge specifying data storage unit. The person-in-charge specifying data storage unit stores person-in-charge specifying data. This person-in-charge specifying data is data in which person-in-charge identifier data for specifying a person in charge is associated with contact information of the person in charge. The person-in-charge identifier data is used for authentication when accessing the monitoring system 20. Furthermore, the person-in-charge identification data is also used to specify the contact person's contact information based on the person-in-charge identifier.

  Further, the management computer 21 is connected to a failure event data storage unit 22 as a report group data storage unit, a contact data storage unit 23 as a contact data storage unit, and a report data storage unit 24 as a failure data storage unit. Yes.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the failure event data storage unit 22 records failure event data 220 for identifying a group that handles a failure that has occurred in the monitored device 10 for each failure event. In this embodiment, the failure event data 220 is recorded when the administrator of each monitored device 10 determines and registers a person in charge for handling each failure. The failure event data 220 includes data related to a notification event and a notification group identifier.

  In the notification event data area, data relating to an event that has occurred in the monitored device 10 and needs maintenance is recorded. In the present embodiment, device specifying data and a failure code are used to specify a notification event in each monitored device 10.

In the report group identifier data area, data relating to an identifier for specifying a group to which a report is made for this failure is recorded.
As shown in FIG. 3, the contact data storage unit 23 stores contact data 230 relating to a report destination for reporting to a person in charge of the group dealing with each failure event. The contact data 230 is registered when a group that handles maintenance of the monitoring target device 10 is determined. The contact data 230 includes data related to a report group identifier, a first priority report destination, a second priority report destination, and a third priority report destination. The contact data 230 always includes data relating to the first priority report destination. If there is no second priority report destination and third priority report destination, these data may not be recorded. However, if the second priority report destination is not registered, the third priority report destination cannot be registered.

  In the report group identifier data area, data relating to an identifier for specifying a group that performs a report is recorded. The failure event data 220 and the contact data 230 are associated with each other through this report group identifier.

In the first priority report destination data area, data relating to the first priority report destination to be reported first in this group is recorded. It is also possible to record a plurality of report destination data in the first priority report destination data area. As this report destination data, person-in-charge information (in this case, person-in-charge identifier data) for specifying a person in charge of maintenance is used. By using the person-in-charge identifier, the person-in-charge contact information (such as a mobile phone mail address or telephone number) can be acquired from the person-in-charge identification data storage unit.

  In the second priority report destination data area, data relating to the second priority report destination that is reported second in this group is recorded. A plurality of report destination data may be recorded in this second priority report destination data area.

  In the third priority report destination data area, data relating to the third priority report destination that is reported third in this group is recorded. A plurality of report destination data may be recorded in this third priority report destination data area.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the report data storage unit 24 stores report data 240 when a report is made. This notification data 240 is registered when it is necessary to make a new notification, and is updated in response to the subsequent occurrence of a failure. The report data 240 includes data related to a report number, a report group identifier, a report status, a failure occurrence time, a failure content, and the like.

In the report number data area, data relating to a report number as an identifier for specifying each report is recorded.
In the notification group identifier data area, data relating to an identifier for specifying a group performing a notification is recorded. The report data 240 and the contact data 230 are associated with each other through the report group identifier, and the report destination to be notified can be specified.

  In the report status data area, data related to the status in this report is recorded. As the report status data, data indicating any of the states of “reporting”, “confirmed” or “recovered” is used. Here, the “notifying” data indicates a state in which a notification is made to the report destination. The data indicating “notifying” includes data relating to a report destination (in this case, a person-in-charge identifier) that has made a report and a report time. The data indicating “confirmed” indicates a state in which the person in charge of the report has confirmed the report. When confirmation data is received, the notification status is updated from “Notifying” to “Confirmed”. Data indicating “recovered” indicates a state in which the monitoring target device 10 in which the failure has occurred is recovered by the person in charge dealing with the failure. When data indicating “recovered” is received from the person-in-charge terminal 30 of the person in charge who has confirmed the recovery of the monitoring target device 10, the report status is updated from “confirmed” to “recovered”.

  In the failure occurrence time data area, data relating to the time of occurrence of each failure (failure occurrence time) is recorded. Further, in the failure content data area, data relating to the content of the failure that has occurred (failure content) is recorded corresponding to the failure occurrence time. For newly generated failures, when the notification data 240 for the notification group that handles the failure event is registered in the notification data storage unit 24 and the notification status is “notifying” or “confirmed”, Data relating to the failure occurrence time and the failure content is recorded in addition to the notification data 240.

Moreover, as shown in FIG. 1, the monitoring system 20 is connected to a plurality of person-in-charge terminals 30 via a communication network N2. The person-in-charge terminal 30 is a terminal used by a person in charge who deals with a failure. As the person-in-charge terminal 30, specifically, a mobile phone terminal that is a report destination for receiving a report from the monitoring system 20, a computer terminal for the person in charge who has received the report to access the monitoring system 20, or the like is used. . Further, by using the person-in-charge terminal 30, the person in charge can acquire and display the failure occurrence time and the failure content data of the report data 240 from the monitoring system 20. As a result, the person in charge can access the monitoring system 20 and browse the information related to the occurrence of the failure separately from the notification by the notification processing described later. In this case, only the notification data 240 specified using the person-in-charge identifier of the person in charge authenticated at the time of access may be extracted and displayed on the person-in-charge terminal 30.

  Furthermore, the monitoring system 20 is also connected to a system operator terminal (not shown). The system operator terminal can display the failure contents and the failure occurrence time for all the failures that have occurred. Further, the system operator terminal can change the report status data of the report data 240 to data indicating any of “notifying”, “confirmed”, or “recovered”. Further, the system operator terminal stores emergency contact data and telephone contact data of the manager in charge, and can contact the emergency contact or manager.

Next, the processing procedure of the monitoring system 20 when a failure occurs in the system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS.
(Report processing)
When a failure occurs, the monitoring target device 10 notifies the monitoring system 20 via the network N1. Specifically, the monitoring target device 10 transmits to the monitoring system 20 a failure message including the content of the failure that has occurred, the time at which this failure occurred, and information (device identification information) that can identify the device of the monitoring target device 10. To do.

  In addition, the monitoring target device 10 periodically performs an operation check, and transmits an operation check end message to the monitoring system 20. This end message includes device specifying information. In this case, if the monitoring system 20 does not regularly receive the end message from the monitoring target device 10, it detects that a failure has occurred at the time when the end message was scheduled to be received. Specifically, the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 stores the device identification information included in the end message in association with the end reception time when the end message is received. If a new end message is not received even after a predetermined time has elapsed from this end reception time, it is detected that a failure has occurred.

  Thus, the monitoring system 20 detects the occurrence of a failure when a failure message is received from the monitored device 10 or when a periodic end message is not received (step S1-1). In this case, the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 specifies the device identification information, the content of the failure (failure content), and the time when the failure occurred (failure occurrence time).

  Next, the monitoring system 20 specifies a report group (step S1-2). Specifically, the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 searches the failure event data storage unit 22 for failure event data 220 for the detected failure (device identification information, failure content). When the failure event data 220 for this failure can be extracted from the failure event data storage unit 22, a report group identifier included in the failure event data 220 is specified. Note that if the failure event data 220 cannot be extracted, the monitoring system 20 does not report.

Next, the management computer 21 specifies the notification data 240 including the specified notification group identifier in the notification data storage unit 24 (step S1-3).
Then, the management computer 21 determines whether the notification has been confirmed (step S1-4). Specifically, it is determined whether or not data indicating “confirmed” is recorded in the notification status data area of the notification data 240 identified in step S1-3. Here, when data indicating “confirmed” is recorded (in the case of “YES” in step S1-4), the management computer 21 performs a failure additional recording process described later (step S1-6). ).

On the other hand, when data indicating “confirmed” is not recorded in the notification status data area (“NO” in step S1-4), the management computer 21 records data indicating “notifying”. It is determined whether or not (step S1-5).

  If data indicating “confirmed” or “notifying” is recorded in the notification status data area (in the case of “YES” in step S1-4 or S1-5), additional recording of the detected failure is performed. Processing is performed (step S1-6). Specifically, data relating to the failure content and failure occurrence time identified in step S1-1 is recorded in the failure occurrence time data region and failure content data region of the notification data 240 identified in step S1-3.

  On the other hand, if data indicating “notifying” is not recorded in the notification status data area (in the case of “NO” in step S1-5), the management computer 21 records new notification data 240 ( Step S1-7). In this case, when not reporting to the reporting group, that is, when data indicating “recovered” is recorded in the reporting status data area of the reporting data 240 specified in step S1-3, This includes the case where the notification data 240 including the notification group identifier specified in S1-2 cannot be specified. Specifically, the management computer 21 assigns a unique failure number to this failure. Then, new report data 240 including data regarding the assigned failure number and the report group identifier specified in step S <b> 1-2 is generated and recorded in the report data storage unit 24. Then, data indicating “notifying” is recorded in the notification status data area of the notification data 240. Further, the failure data related to the current failure and the data related to the failure occurrence time are recorded in the notification data 240.

Then, the management computer 21 performs a notification management process (step S1-8). This report management process will be described with reference to FIG.
(Report management processing)
In this notification management process, the management computer 21 first reports to the person in charge of the first priority (step S2-1). Specifically, the management computer 21 extracts contact data 230 including the report group identifier of the newly recorded report data 240. Then, the person in charge recorded in the first priority report destination data area of the contact data 230 is notified that a failure has occurred. Specifically, using the person-in-charge identifier recorded in the first priority report destination data area, for example, an e-mail address is acquired as a contact from the person-in-charge identification data storage unit, and a failure occurs in this mail address. Send an email to the effect. If the contact address is the mobile phone number of the person-in-charge terminal 30, a voice message indicating that a failure has occurred in this phone number is transmitted. In the present embodiment, when a plurality of person-in-charge information is recorded in the first priority report destination data area, the management computer 21 determines the person-in-charge identification data storage unit based on the plurality of person-in-charge information. Notifications are made sequentially to the contacts stored in. When making a report, the management computer 21 records the information on the person in charge of the report and the data related to the report time in the report status data of the report data 240 in which the report group identifier is recorded.

  Here, the person in charge who has received the report at the person-in-charge terminal 30 performs notification confirmation processing using the person-in-charge terminal 30 when confirming the content of the failure. Specifically, the person in charge uses the person-in-charge terminal 30 to access the monitoring system 20 via the communication network N2. In this case, the monitoring system 20 performs an authentication process at the time of access, and permits access only from the person in charge terminal 30 who has been authenticated. Specifically, the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 acquires the person-in-charge identifier data from the person-in-charge terminal 30 and extracts the person-in-charge identification data included in the person-in-charge identifier from the person-in-charge identification data storage unit. Identify and authenticate

Furthermore, the management computer 21 extracts the report data 240 including the specified person identifier. In this case, the report data 240 of the situation where the failure has not been recovered is extracted. Specifically, the management computer 21 reports from the notification data storage unit 24 all the notification data 240 including the notification status 240 indicating that the notification status indicates “reporting in progress” or “confirmed”. Data 240 is extracted. Then, the failure information included in the extracted report data 240 is transmitted to the person-in-charge terminal 30. This failure information includes at least a report number and information regarding the failure content. The person-in-charge terminal 30 displays the failure content based on the received data. It is also possible to search the report data 240 in which data indicating “recovered” has already been recorded using the person-in-charge terminal 30 and display the recovered failure contents.

  Here, the person in charge selects the failure to be “confirmed” from the displayed failure contents. Then, the confirmation data is transmitted to the monitoring system 20 using the person-in-charge terminal 30. The confirmation data includes information for identifying the person in charge (for example, person identifier data) and information for identifying the failure selected in the person-in-charge terminal 30 (in this case, a report number).

  The management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 that has received the confirmation data identifies the report data 240 using the received report number, and data indicating “confirmed” and person-in-charge identifier data in the report status data area of the report data 240 Record.

  The management computer 21 that has made a report in step S2-1 acquires the system time, and when a predetermined time has elapsed since the last reported time, the management computer 21 displays “ It is confirmed whether or not data indicating “confirmed” is recorded.

  Then, when the notification confirmation is performed, that is, when data indicating “confirmed” is recorded in the notification status data area within a predetermined time (for example, within 10 minutes) (“YES” in step S2-2). ), The management computer 21 ends the notification management process.

  On the other hand, if the notification is not confirmed within the predetermined time (in the case of “NO” in step S2-2), “notifying” is displayed in the data area of the notification data 240 even after the predetermined time has elapsed. The data shown is still recorded. In this case, the management computer 21 determines whether or not the person in charge is registered in the second priority of the notification data 240 (step S2-3). Specifically, it is confirmed whether or not the person-in-charge identifier is recorded in the second priority report destination data area of the contact data 230 including the identified report group identifier.

  If there is no record of second priority report destination data in the corresponding contact data 230 (“NO” in step S2-3), the management computer 21 determines whether or not three reports have been repeated. (Step S2-4). Specifically, the management computer 21 compares the person-in-charge identifier recorded in the report status data of the report data 240 with the person-in-charge identifier recorded in the contact data 230. Then, the number of times of reporting is calculated by counting the number of times of recording of the lowest-ranking person-in-charge identifier recorded in the reporting status data. And this report frequency is compared with 3 times.

  If the number of reports has not reached three (in the case of “NO” in step S2-4), the management computer 21 executes the process of step S2-1 again. Specifically, the management computer 21 notifies the person in charge of the first priority again. In this case, the management computer 21 records the identifier of the person in charge who made the report and the data related to the report time. Then, it is determined whether or not notification has been confirmed within a predetermined time (step S2-2), and the process is repeated until three notifications are made.

On the other hand, when there is a record of the second priority report destination data (in step S2-3, “YE
In the case of “S”), the management computer 21 notifies the person in charge of the first priority and the second priority (step S2-5). Specifically, the management computer 21 issues a report to all report destinations stored in the first priority report destination data area and the second priority report destination data area of the contact data 230. Also in this case, the person-in-charge identification data storage unit is used to identify and notify the contact address corresponding to the person-in-charge identifier. Then, the identifier of the person in charge who made the report and the data related to the report time are recorded. Here, the management computer 21 sets the number of times of notification by the processing of step S2-5 as the number of notifications.

  Then, the management computer 21 monitors reception of confirmation data for a predetermined time (for example, 10 minutes) using the system time. When the notification is confirmed within a predetermined time and the confirmation data is received (in the case of “YES” in step S2-6), the notification management process is terminated.

  On the other hand, when the notification confirmation data is not received within the predetermined time (in the case of “NO” in step S2-6), the management computer 21 determines whether or not the person in charge is registered in the third priority order. Judgment is made (step S2-7). Specifically, it is confirmed whether or not the person-in-charge identifier data is recorded in the third priority report destination data area of the contact data 230.

  If the third priority report destination data is not recorded in the corresponding contact data 230 (“NO” in step S2-7), the management computer 21 determines whether or not three reports have been repeated. (Step S2-8). Specifically, the management computer 21 calculates the number of notifications by counting the number of recordings of the lowest-order notification destination recorded in the notification status data. And this report frequency is compared with 3 times.

  When the number of reports has not reached three (in the case of “NO” in step S2-8), the management computer 21 executes the process of step S2-5 again. Specifically, the management computer 21 notifies the person in charge of the first priority and the second priority again. Then, it is determined whether or not notification has been confirmed within a predetermined time (step S2-6), and the process is repeated until three notifications are made.

  On the other hand, when there is a record of the third priority report destination data (in the case of “YES” in step S2-7), the management computer 21 is in charge of the first priority, the second priority, and the third priority. The person is notified (step S2-9). Specifically, the management computer 21 sets all the report destinations stored in the first priority report destination data area, the second priority report destination data area, and the third priority report destination data area of the contact data 230. Report to. Also in this case, the person-in-charge identification data storage unit is used to identify and notify the contact address corresponding to the person-in-charge identifier. Then, after the report, the management computer 21 records the report destination and the data regarding the report time. Here, the management computer 21 sets the number of times of notification by the process of step S2-9 as the number of notifications.

  Then, the management computer 21 monitors reception of confirmation data for a predetermined time (for example, 10 minutes) using the system time. When the notification is confirmed within a predetermined time and the confirmation data is received (in the case of “YES” in step S2-10), the notification management process is terminated. On the other hand, if the confirmation data has not been received within the predetermined time (in the case of “NO” in step S2-10), the processes in steps S2-9 and S2-10 are repeated until three notifications are made. .

If the confirmation is not received within a predetermined time even if the notification is repeated three times and the confirmation data is not received (in the case of “YES” in steps S2-4, S2-8, S2-11), , Stop reporting to the person in charge and report to the system operator (step S1)
-12). Specifically, the monitoring system 20 outputs a failure occurrence message to the system operator terminal.

  When a failure occurrence message is output to the system operator terminal, the system operator makes an emergency contact to the emergency contact address of the person in charge. When the person in charge can be contacted using the emergency contact information, the system operator sets the notification status data in the notification data 240 to “confirmed”. On the other hand, even if the emergency contact is used, if the person in charge cannot be contacted and a long time (for example, 2 hours) has passed since the failure occurred, a telephone contact is made with the manager.

  On the other hand, the person in charge who confirmed the report takes measures to restore the monitored device 10 in which the failure has occurred. The person in charge confirming the recovery accesses the monitoring system 20 through the communication network N2 using the person-in-charge terminal 30. Also in this case, the monitoring system 20 performs an authentication process at the time of access, and permits access only from the person-in-charge terminal 30 of the person in charge who has been authenticated. Specifically, the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 acquires the person-in-charge identifier data from the person-in-charge terminal 30 and extracts the person-in-charge identification data included in the person-in-charge identifier from the person-in-charge identification data storage unit. Identify and authenticate

  Furthermore, the management computer 21 extracts the report data 240 including the specified person identifier. In this case, the report data 240 of the situation where the failure has not been recovered is extracted. Specifically, the management computer 21 reports from the notification data storage unit 24 all the notification data 240 including the notification status 240 indicating that the notification status indicates “reporting in progress” or “confirmed”. Data 240 is extracted. Then, the failure information included in the extracted report data 240 is transmitted to the person-in-charge terminal 30. This failure information includes at least a report number and information regarding the failure content. The person-in-charge terminal 30 displays the failure content based on the received data.

  Here, the person in charge selects the fault of the recovered monitoring target device 10 from the displayed fault contents. Then, using the person-in-charge terminal 30, data indicating “recovered” is transmitted to the monitoring system 20. This data includes information for identifying the person in charge (for example, person-in-charge identifier data) and information for identifying the failure selected in the person-in-charge terminal 30 (here, the report number).

  The management computer 21 that has received this data identifies the report data 240 using the received report number, and records data indicating “recovered” in the report status data area of the report data 240.

According to the failure notification system of the present embodiment, the following effects can be obtained.
In the present embodiment, when the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 detects a failure in the monitoring target device 10, the management computer 21 identifies a notification group from the failure event data storage unit 22 of this failure. The management computer 21 specifies the report data 240 of the specified report group (step S1-3), and if it has been confirmed or is being reported (in the case of “YES” in step S1-4 or 1-5), An additional recording process of the detected failure is performed (step S1-6). On the other hand, when not reporting (in the case of “NO” in step S1-5), the management computer 21 records new report data 240 (step S1-7) and reports management processing (step S1-8). To do. In other words, even if a new failure occurs, the management computer 21 does not make a new notification if a notification management process is being performed for a notification group that deals with this failure. Therefore, the management computer 21 can reduce the system load by suppressing unnecessary notifications, and can perform notifications efficiently. On the other hand, since the person in charge does not receive notification individually even when a large number of failures occur continuously, the complexity can be reduced.

  In the present embodiment, when the identified report group has been confirmed or is being reported (in the case of “YES” in step S1-4 or S1-5), a failure additional recording process is performed (step S1). -6). In this additional recording process, data relating to the failure content and failure occurrence time identified in step S1-1 is recorded in the failure occurrence time data region and failure content data region of the notification data 240 identified in step S1-3. For this reason, by acquiring the report data 240 recorded in the report data storage unit 24, it is possible to confirm a failure that occurred during the report. Therefore, all faults can be confirmed without receiving a notification every time a fault occurs.

  In this embodiment, when the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 receives the confirmation data, the management computer 21 records data indicating “confirmed” in the notification status data area of the notification data 240. The management computer 21 receives the confirmation data within a predetermined time in the notification management process (step S1-8) (in the case of “YES” in steps S2-2, S2-6, and S2-10). The report management process is terminated. As a result, it is possible to grasp that the person in charge of the report group has been contacted, so other persons in the same report group with lower priority will not receive a report for the same failure event, reducing complexity. Can be made.

  In the present embodiment, the management computer 21 of the monitoring system 20 receives the first priority and the second priority when the confirmation data is not received within a predetermined time (in the case of “NO” in step S2-2). A report is made to the person in charge of the ranking (step S2-5). Even in this case, when the confirmation data is not received within the predetermined time (in the case of “NO” in step S2-6), the management computer 21 determines the first priority, the second priority, and the third priority. The person in charge of the order is notified (step S2-9). In other words, when the notification is not confirmed even if the notification is made, a notification including a notification destination with a low priority is made, and the number of notification destinations is increased cumulatively. For this reason, it is possible to deal with a failure that has occurred more quickly even when a report destination with a higher priority as much as possible is reported and when the report destination cannot be contacted.

  In the present embodiment, after the data for identifying the failure that has occurred and the data indicating that the failure has been recovered are input via the person-in-charge terminal 30, the management computer 21 displays “recovered” in the notification status data area of the notification data 240. Is recorded. Therefore, based on the report status data of the report data 240, after the report management process is completed, the person in charge is in the process of dealing with this report, or the countermeasure target has been finished and the monitored device 10 has recovered. You can see if there is.

  In the present embodiment, each monitoring target device 10 periodically performs an operation check and transmits a message of this operation check to the monitoring system 20. For this reason, even if the monitoring target device 10 goes down and a failure message cannot be transmitted, the monitoring system 20 can detect the failure.

Moreover, you may change the said embodiment as follows.
In the above embodiment, the contact data storage unit 23 stores the third priority report destination. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and more priorities may be assigned and data relating to the report destinations corresponding to the priorities may be stored.

In the notification management process of the above embodiment, if the person in charge of the first priority is notified and the notification is not confirmed within a predetermined time, the person in charge of the first and second priorities is notified. If the person in charge of the first or second priority is notified and there is no confirmation within a predetermined time, the first,
Notify the person in charge of second and third priority. Not limited to this, if the person in charge of the first priority is notified and there is no confirmation of notification within a predetermined time, the person in charge of the second priority may be notified. Further, if the person in charge of the second priority is notified and the confirmation data is not received within a predetermined time, the person in charge of the third priority may be notified. In other words, when confirmation data is not received from a report destination within a predetermined time, a report destination including at least a report destination of the next priority may be contacted.

  In the above embodiment, the monitoring target device 10 has been described using a computer such as a host computer or a server. The monitoring target device 10 is not limited to these, and may be any control means that can monitor a failure occurrence via a network, that is, a network device.

  In the above embodiment, the report group identifier is recorded in the failure event data storage unit 22 in association with the failure event. The failure event is not limited to the event depending on the type of failure, but may be an event for grouping failures. For example, a group corresponding to the company of the monitored device 10 in which a failure has occurred or a location corresponding to the location of the monitored device 10 may be set as a failure event, and the report group may be determined according to these. In the former case, a plurality of monitoring target devices 10 managed by different companies can be managed by one monitoring system 20. In the latter case, a quicker recovery work can be expected by determining the person in charge for each region.

The schematic block diagram of the monitoring system of this invention. Explanatory drawing of the data recorded on the failure event data storage part. Explanatory drawing of the data recorded on the contact data storage part. Explanatory drawing of the data recorded on the report data storage part. Explanatory drawing for demonstrating the process sequence of a report process. Explanatory drawing for demonstrating the process sequence of a report management process.

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  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Monitoring object apparatus, 20 ... Monitoring system as failure report system, 21 ... Management computer, 22 ... Failure event data storage part as report group data storage means, 23 ... Contact data storage part as contact data storage means 24. Notification data storage unit as failure data storage means.

Claims (5)

Report group data storage means for recording a report group corresponding to a failure event of the monitored device;
For each of the reporting groups, a contact data storage means that gives priority and records data related to the reporting destination;
Fault data storage means for recording data relating to the content of the fault that has occurred, the fault occurrence time, and the status status for each reporting group;
A system for reporting using a management computer connected to a contact terminal,
The management computer is
When a failure in the monitored device is detected, based on the failure event of this failure, a group identification unit that identifies a reporting group using the reporting group data storage unit;
Using the status status recorded in the failure data storage means, status specifying means for specifying a report management status for the specified report group;
If the notification management processing for the notification group is being performed, the processing is continued. If the notification management processing is not being performed, the contact data storage means is used to determine the person in charge of the notification destination with a high priority. A failure notification system comprising a processing execution unit for performing notification management processing for reporting to a contact terminal and recording data regarding the failure for each notification group in the failure data storage unit. In the failure notification system according to claim 1,
When the management computer receives a notification confirmation from the contact terminal of the person who made the notification, the management computer further executes a confirmation means for recording the confirmation information in the failure data storage means,
The notification management process measures the elapsed time from the notification,
If confirmation information is recorded in the failure data storage means before a predetermined time has elapsed, the process ends.
If confirmation information is not recorded in the failure data storage means even after the predetermined time has elapsed, the report destination of the next priority is specified from the contact data storage means, and the report destination of this next priority is specified. A failure notification system characterized by reporting to the contact terminal of the person in charge including the above. In the failure notification system according to claim 1 or 2,
When the management computer is performing a notification management process for the notification group, and a failure relating to a failure event associated with the notification group occurs in the notification group data storage means, the content of the failure that has occurred And a failure notification system, wherein the failure occurrence time is recorded in the failure data storage means in association with the group. Report group data storage means for recording a report group corresponding to a failure event of the monitored device;
For each of the reporting groups, a contact data storage means that gives priority and records data related to the reporting destination;
Fault data storage means for recording data relating to the content of the fault that has occurred, the fault occurrence time, and the status status for each reporting group;
A method of reporting using a management computer connected to a contact terminal,
The management computer is
When a failure in the monitored device is detected, based on the failure event of this failure, a group identification stage for identifying a reporting group using the reporting group data storage means;
Using the status status recorded in the failure data storage means, a status specifying stage for specifying a report management status for the specified report group;
If the notification management processing for the notification group is being performed, the processing is continued. If the notification management processing is not being performed, the contact data storage means is used to determine the person in charge of the notification destination with a high priority. A failure notification method comprising: performing a notification management process for reporting to a contact terminal, and performing a process execution step of recording data on the failure for each notification group in the failure data storage means. Report group data storage means for recording a report group corresponding to a failure event of the monitored device;
For each of the reporting groups, a contact data storage means that gives priority and records data related to the reporting destination;
Fault data storage means for recording data relating to the content of the fault that has occurred, the fault occurrence time, and the status status for each reporting group;
A program for reporting using a management computer connected to a contact terminal,
The management computer,
When a failure is detected in the monitoring target device, based on the failure event of this failure, a group identification unit that identifies a notification group using the notification group data storage unit,
Using the status status recorded in the failure data storage means, the status specifying means for specifying the report management status for the specified report group, and the process when the report management processing for the report group is performed If the report management process is not continued, the contact data storage means is used to perform a report management process for reporting to the contact terminal of the person in charge of the report destination having a high priority, A failure notification program that causes failure data storage means to function as processing execution means for recording data relating to the failure for each notification group.

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