JP2010218072A - Upper processor, data processing system, lower processor, computer program and data processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an upper processor preventing that failure improvement information is not distributed though failure decided that it is important occurs in a lot of lower processors. <P>SOLUTION: This upper processor 100 obtains a failure cause notification ECD notifying a data processing resource DOR decided as at least cause from the lower processor 200 wherein the failure has occurred, and obtains a peculiar failure high degree numerical value EIN at least in each lower processor 200. The upper processor 100 accumulates the failure high degree numerical value EIN in each failure cause notification ECD. An improvement acquisition part 150 obtains the peculiar failure improvement information EBD in each failure cause notification ECD. When the accumulated failure high degree numerical value EIN exceeds a prescribed improvement distribution threshold value BDS, the upper processor 100 distributes the corresponding failure improvement information EBD to at least a part of the plurality of lower processors 200. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a host processor that maintains a host processor, a data processing system having the host processor, a host processor of the data processor, a computer program of the host processor, and a data processing method.

  Currently, so-called computer devices are in widespread use and are used for various purposes in various places. However, the software of the computer device is not complete, and maintenance by so-called correction patches is essential.

  Therefore, there is a proposal of a system that reduces the load on the customer by providing only appropriate information in the preventive maintenance service for the software of the customer system. In the preventive maintenance system, from the patch information database and customer information database, the customer system information and patch details information are used to determine whether the patch can be applied to the customer system and the recommended patch, and the patch applicable to the customer system. Check for patches.

  Furthermore, the correction patch extraction process function extracts correction patches according to the customer's request for the correction patches confirmed there, so that the support side organizes the correction patch information by the customer and reduces the load on the customer. (See, for example, Patent Document 1).

  There is also a proposal for accurately applying correction information to software in a system that dynamically allocates a plurality of software to a plurality of servers for customer service. The system uses the information provided when the correction information is issued to calculate an index that integrates the newness and security level of the software used by the customer, and the resulting index is a constraint condition specified by the customer. If the above condition is not satisfied, the software is updated by applying the correction information to the software (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

  In addition, there is a proposal for a client monitoring system that can monitor the operation of the client and update the software according to the cause of the failure. In this case, the monitoring server requests and acquires failure information from the client, inquires maintenance information corresponding to the failure information from the failure database, acquires the result, maintenance information and each client. Means for selecting a correction patch based on predetermined correction patch selection information, means for requesting and acquiring a correction patch from the correction patch database, and means for transmitting and applying the correction patch to the client With.

  Then, the correction patch is identified and automatically applied to the client based on the maintenance information stored in the failure database for each known problem relating to the software, thereby reducing the labor required for the maintenance due to the failure caused by the software ( For example, see Patent Document 3).

Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-099967 Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2005-092803 JP 2003-233512 A

  In the technique of Patent Literature 1, whether or not to apply to a client is determined based on the importance set in a correction patch and whether or not it is a security-related correction patch. That is, the applicability is determined based on the request from the correction patch side.

  In the technique of Patent Document 2, when a new patch is generated, a specific point is recalculated for each client, and when the threshold is not reached, the patch is applied. For this reason, a threshold is individually set for each client from the viewpoint of security and the like.

  According to the technique of Patent Document 3, an application rule for a correction patch is set in advance according to the business contents of the client, and the necessity of transmission of the correction patch is determined according to the application rule every time a correction patch is generated. The

  That is, in any case, the host processor that distributes the correction patch independently determines whether the correction patch needs to be distributed. For this reason, even if a failure that is determined to be important in many clients occurs, there is a possibility that a situation in which the correction patch is not applied may occur.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and is a high-level process capable of preventing failure improvement information from being distributed even if a failure that is determined to be important by a number of lower-level processing devices has occurred. The present invention provides an apparatus, a data processing system having the host processing apparatus, a lower processing apparatus of the data processing system, a computer program of the host processing apparatus, and a data processing method.

  The host processing device of the present invention includes at least data communication means for intercommunication with a plurality of lower processing devices that respectively execute various data processing operations by using various data processing resources installed, and at least from a lower processing device in which a failure has occurred. Notification acquisition means for acquiring a failure cause notification for notifying the data processing resource determined to be the cause by mutual communication, severity acquisition means for acquiring a failure severity numerical value specific to at least each lower processing device together with the failure cause notification, and Severity accumulation means for accumulating failure severity values for each failure cause notification, improvement acquisition means for acquiring failure improvement information specific to each failure cause notification, and failure severity values accumulated for each failure cause notification are improved as prescribed. Improvement distribution means for distributing failure improvement information corresponding to exceeding a distribution threshold to at least some of a plurality of lower-level processing devices by mutual communication Having.

  The data processing system of the present invention is a data processing system in which at least one upper processing device and a plurality of lower processing devices communicate with each other, and is determined to be at least a cause when a failure occurs with the upper processing device of the present invention. A lower-level processing device that transmits a failure cause notification for notifying data processing resources to the higher-level processing device together with a failure severity value specific to each individual.

  The lower processing apparatus of the present invention is a lower processing apparatus of the data processing system of the present invention, and when a failure occurs, a failure cause notification for notifying at least a data processing resource determined to be a cause is provided at least for each individual failure severity Along with the numerical value, it is transmitted to the host processor.

  The computer program of the present invention is a computer program of the host processing device of the present invention, and is a data communication that mutually communicates with a plurality of lower processing devices that respectively execute various data processing operations by using various mounted data processing resources Processing, notification acquisition processing for acquiring a failure cause notification that notifies at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause from the lower processing device in which the failure has occurred, and failure specific to each lower processing device together with the failure cause notification Severity acquisition processing for acquiring severity values, severity accumulation processing for accumulating failure severity values for each acquired failure cause notification, improvement acquisition processing for acquiring unique failure improvement information for each failure cause notification, and failure cause notification If the failure severity value accumulated every time exceeds the predetermined improvement delivery threshold, the corresponding failure improvement information And improved distribution process for distributing by mutual communication at least part of the processing apparatus, the to be executed by the host processing apparatus.

  The data processing method of the present invention is a data processing method of the host processing device of the present invention, and communicates with a plurality of lower processing devices that respectively execute various data processing operations by various mounted data processing resources. Specific to at least each lower-level processing device along with the data communication operation, notification acquisition operation for acquiring at least the cause of the data processing resource that has been determined to be the cause from the failed lower-level processing device via mutual communication, and the cause of failure notification Severity acquisition operation to acquire the failure severity value, severity accumulation operation to accumulate failure severity values for each acquired failure cause notification, improvement acquisition operation to acquire specific failure improvement information for each failure cause notification, and failure When the failure severity value accumulated for each cause notification exceeds a predetermined improvement delivery threshold, the corresponding failure improvement information is stored in a plurality of lower processing devices. And also it has a improved distribution operation to deliver by mutual communication part.

  The various components of the present invention only need to be formed so as to realize the function. For example, dedicated hardware that exhibits a predetermined function, upper processing in which the predetermined function is given by a computer program It can be realized as an apparatus, a predetermined function realized in a host processor by a computer program, an arbitrary combination thereof, or the like.

  The various components of the present invention do not necessarily have to be independent of each other. A plurality of components are formed as a single member, and a single component is formed of a plurality of members. It may be that a certain component is a part of another component, a part of a certain component overlaps with a part of another component, or the like.

  Moreover, although the computer program and the data processing method of this invention have described several process and operation | movement in order, the order of description does not limit the order which performs several process and several operation | movement.

  For this reason, when implementing the computer program and data processing method of the present invention, the order of the plurality of processes and the plurality of operations can be changed within a range that does not hinder the contents.

  Furthermore, the computer program and the data processing method of the present invention are not limited to being executed at a timing when a plurality of processes and a plurality of operations are individually different. For this reason, other processes and operations occur during execution of certain processes and operations, and the execution timing of certain processes and operations overlaps with the execution timing of other processes and operations. Etc.

  Furthermore, “store data” in the present invention means that the apparatus of the present invention has at least a function of storing data. For this reason, in addition to storing data newly registered by the consumer, the device of the present invention also stores data registered at the time of manufacture by the supplier, and allows new data not to be registered by the consumer after shipment. .

  Further, the host processor according to the present invention reads a computer program and executes a corresponding processing operation, so that a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), an I / F It can be implemented as hardware constructed by general-purpose devices such as (Interface) units, dedicated logic circuits constructed to execute predetermined processing operations, combinations thereof, and the like.

  In the present invention, causing the host processor to execute various operations corresponding to the computer program also means causing the host processor to control operations of the various devices. For example, storing various data in the host processing device means that the CPU stores various data in an information storage medium such as an HDD (Hard Disc Drive) fixed to the host processing device, and is exchangeable with the host processing device. The CPU allows various data to be stored by the CD drive in an information storage medium such as a CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) loaded.

  In addition, the data processing resource referred to in the present invention is more specifically a generic name of various hardware that physically configures the host processing apparatus and various software that logically configures. Meaning and corresponds to a so-called resource.

  Further, the failure improvement information referred to in the present invention means software such as a data file that is used to improve a failure that has occurred in the lower-level processing device, and corresponds to a so-called correction patch.

  In the host processing device of the present invention, data communication means communicates with a plurality of lower processing devices that respectively execute various data processing operations by using various mounted data processing resources. Therefore, the notification acquisition unit acquires the failure cause notification for notifying at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause from the lower-level processing device in which the failure has occurred through mutual communication. The severity acquisition means acquires a failure severity value specific to at least each lower processing device together with the failure cause notification. For each failure cause notification acquired in this way, the failure accumulation means accumulates failure severity values. The improvement acquisition unit acquires specific failure improvement information for each failure cause notification. When the failure severity value accumulated for each failure cause notification exceeds a predetermined improvement delivery threshold, the improvement delivery means delivers the corresponding failure improvement information to at least some of the plurality of lower-level processing devices by mutual communication. For this reason, failure improvement information is distributed if the cumulative result for each failure cause notification with a specific failure severity value exceeds the improvement distribution threshold in a plurality of lower processing devices. By setting a severe numerical value or the like, it is possible to satisfactorily prevent failure improvement information from being distributed even though a failure that is determined to be important has occurred in many lower-level processing devices. Nevertheless, failure improvement information is not distributed unless the cumulative result for each failure cause notification with a specific failure severity value exceeds the improvement distribution threshold in a plurality of lower processing devices. However, it is possible to satisfactorily prevent the failure improvement information from being distributed indefinitely even though it has only occurred.

It is a typical block diagram which shows the logical structure of the data processing system of embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the physical structure of a data processing system. It is a flowchart which shows the data processing method by a low-order processing apparatus. It is a flowchart which shows the data processing method by a high-order processing apparatus.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the data processing system 1000 of this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, at least one upper processing device 100 and a plurality of lower processing devices 200 communicate with each other.

  As will be described in detail later, the lower-level processing device 200 executes various data processing operations DOM by using various mounted data processing resources DOR. Then, when a failure occurs, a failure cause notification ECD that notifies at least the data processing resource DOR determined to be the cause is transmitted to the host processing device 100 together with a failure severity value EIN specific to each individual.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the upper processing apparatus 100 includes data that communicates with a plurality of lower processing apparatuses 200 that execute various data processing operations DOM using the various data processing resources DOR implemented as described above. The communication unit 110, the notification acquisition unit 120 that acquires the failure cause notification ECD that notifies at least the data processing resource DOR determined to be the cause from the failed lower level processing device 200 by mutual communication, and at least the lower level together with the failure cause notification ECD A severity acquisition unit 130 that acquires a failure severity value EIN unique to each processing device 200, a severity accumulation unit 140 that accumulates a failure severity value EIN for each failure cause notification ECD that is acquired, and a failure cause notification ECD that is unique to each failure cause notification ECD The improvement acquisition unit 150 that acquires the failure improvement information EBD and the failure accumulated for each failure cause notification ECD Severe numeric EIN has an improved distribution unit 160 that distributes by mutual communication at least a portion of the disorder improving information EBD a plurality of lower processing apparatus 200 corresponding to exceed a predetermined improve distribution threshold BDS.

  Furthermore, the upper level processing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment also includes a configuration storage unit 170 that stores at least the data processing resource DOR mounted for each lower level processing apparatus 200. Therefore, the improvement distribution unit 160 refers to the configuration storage unit 170 and distributes the failure improvement information EBD to the lower level processing device 200 in which the data processing resource DOR corresponding to the failure cause notification ECD is mounted.

  The host processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment also includes an improvement storage unit 180 that stores the failure cause notification ECD and the failure improvement information EBD in association with each other at each of the plurality of stages of information distribution timing DDT.

  Therefore, the improvement acquisition unit 150 acquires the failure improvement information EBD to which the unique information distribution timing DDT is individually assigned, and the improvement distribution unit 160 determines that the accumulated failure severity value EIN exceeds the improvement distribution threshold BDS. Corresponding failure improvement information EBD is distributed at information distribution timing DDT unique to each.

  More specifically, the lower-level processing device 200 includes a computer device, and includes, for example, a database server used for in-house work by various manufacturers. The host processing device 100 is composed of, for example, a computer device of a service company that has a business alliance with the various manufacturers described above for maintenance of each of the lower processing devices 200.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the upper processing apparatus 100 and the plurality of lower processing apparatuses 200 are connected by a communication network CIN such as the Internet, NGN (Next Generation Network), WAN (Wide Area Network), for example. ing.

  The upper processing apparatus 100 and the lower processing apparatus 200 have hardware such as a CPU and HDD and software such as an OS (Operating System) and application software as data processing resources DOR (not shown).

  The above-described units 110 to 110 are logically realized in the host processing device 100 by the CPU integrally controlling various hardware corresponding to the computer program composed of such software.

  For example, the data communication unit 110 corresponds to a function for controlling the data communication operation of the data communication device corresponding to a computer program in which a CPU is mounted. The notification acquisition unit 120 and the severe acquisition unit 130 correspond to a function of recognizing received data of a data communication device corresponding to a computer program in which a CPU is installed.

  The severe accumulation unit 140, the configuration storage unit 170, and the improvement storage unit 180 correspond to a function of storing various data in a memory device corresponding to a computer program in which a CPU is mounted.

  The improvement acquisition unit 150 corresponds to a function for searching the storage data of the memory device as described above corresponding to the computer program in which the CPU is mounted. The improvement distribution unit 160 corresponds to a function of causing the data communication device to execute data transmission corresponding to a computer program in which the CPU is mounted.

  The computer program of the host processing device 100 as described above includes, for example, data communication processing for intercommunication with a plurality of lower processing devices 200 each executing various data processing operations DOM by using various mounted data processing resources DOR. A notification acquisition process for acquiring a failure cause notification ECD for notifying at least the data processing resource DOR determined to be the cause from the failed lower processing device 200 by mutual communication, and at least for each lower processing device 200 together with the failure cause notification ECD. Severity acquisition processing for acquiring a unique failure severity value EIN, severity accumulation processing for accumulating failure severity values EIN for each acquired failure cause notification ECD, and failure improvement information EBD specific to each failure cause notification ECD Failure severity value accumulated for each improvement acquisition process and failure cause notification ECD When the IN exceeds a predetermined improved distribution threshold BDS, an improved distribution process for distributing the corresponding failure improvement information EBD to at least a part of the plurality of lower-level processing devices 200 by mutual communication, and at least each lower-level processing device 200 is implemented. The higher order processing apparatus 100 executes a configuration storage process for storing the data processing resource DOR and an improvement storage process for storing the failure cause notification ECD and the failure improvement information EBD in association with each other at multiple stages of information distribution timing DDT. It is described as follows.

  In the configuration as described above, in the data processing system 1000 of the present embodiment, various manufacturers use the lower-level processing device 200 for various purposes. However, various manufacturers have a business alliance with a service company for the maintenance of the lower processing apparatus 200 by the upper processing apparatus 100.

  Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, various manufacturers set the failure severity numerical value EIN in the lower-level processing device 200 in accordance with, for example, its use (steps S1-Y and S2). For example, when the lower-level processing device 200 is used for controlling equipment related to life support in a large-scale hospital, the failure severity value EIN is set to a sufficient value.

  In such a state, various manufacturers execute various data processing operations DOM with various data processing resources DOR in which the lower level processing device 200 is mounted (step S3). However, a failure may occur when the data processing operation DOM is executed in this way.

  Then, the lower-level processing device 200 that has detected the occurrence of the failure (step S4-Y) specifies at least the data processing resource DOR in which the failure has occurred (step S5). Then, for example, the failure cause notification ECD in which the identification data of the own device, the data processing resource DOR in which the failure has occurred, the data processing operation DOM in which the failure has occurred, and the like are set is transmitted to the host processing device 100 together with the failure severity value EIN. (Step S6).

  As shown in FIG. 4, in the upper processing apparatus 100, when the failure cause notification ECD is received from the lower processing apparatus 200 together with the failure severity value EIN as described above (step T1-Y), the failure severity value EIN is received as the cause of the failure. It accumulates for each notification ECD (step T2).

  When the failure severity value EIN collected and accumulated from the plurality of lower-level processing devices 200 exceeds the predetermined improvement delivery threshold BDS (step T3-Y), failure improvement information EBD corresponding to the failure cause notification ECD is obtained. Acquired together with the information distribution timing DDT (step T4). .

  This information distribution timing DDT is set in a plurality of stages in advance, for example, immediately, once a day, once a week, once a month, etc., corresponding to the importance of the failure improved by the failure improvement information EBD. Is done.

  Therefore, when the failure severity value EIN accumulated as described above becomes the information delivery timing DDT of the failure improvement information EBD exceeding the improved delivery threshold BDS (step T5-Y), the failure improvement information EBD is a specific lower-level processing device. 200 (steps T6 and T7).

  More specifically, in the upper processing apparatus 100, the configuration of the data processing resource DOR implemented for each lower processing apparatus 200 with which it has partnered as described above is registered. Therefore, when the failure improvement information EBD is distributed as described above, the lower level processing device 200 in which the corresponding data processing resource DOR is mounted is identified (step T6), and the failure improvement is performed only on the identified lower level processing device 200. Information EBD is distributed (step T7).

  The host processing device 100 of the data processing system 1000 according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of lower processing devices 200 each executing various data processing operations DOM using various data processing resources DOR implemented as described above, and data The communication unit 110 performs mutual communication.

  Therefore, the notification acquisition unit 120 acquires a failure cause notification ECD that notifies at least the data processing resource DOR determined to be the cause from the lower-level processing device 200 in which the failure has occurred through mutual communication.

  The severity acquisition unit 130 acquires a failure severity value EIN unique to at least each lower processing device 200 together with the failure cause notification ECD. The severity accumulation unit 140 accumulates the failure severity value EIN for each failure cause notification ECD acquired in this way.

  The improvement acquisition unit 150 acquires failure improvement information EBD unique to each failure cause notification ECD. Then, when the failure severity numerical value EIN accumulated for each failure cause notification ECD exceeds a predetermined improvement delivery threshold BDS, the corresponding failure improvement information EBD is transmitted to at least a part of the plurality of lower-level processing devices 200 by mutual communication. Will deliver.

  Therefore, the failure improvement information EBD is distributed if the cumulative result for each failure cause notification ECD of the specific failure severity value EIN exceeds the improved distribution threshold BDS in the plurality of lower level processing devices 200.

  Therefore, for example, the failure improvement information EBD is generated even though a failure that is determined to be important in many of the lower-level processing devices 200 has occurred, for example, by the lower-level processing device 200 setting the failure severity value EIN for its own convenience. Can be prevented well.

  Nevertheless, the failure improvement information EBD is not distributed unless the cumulative result for each failure cause notification ECD of the failure severity numerical value EIN unique to the plurality of lower level processing devices 200 exceeds the improved distribution threshold BDS. Accordingly, it is possible to satisfactorily prevent the failure improvement information EBD from being distributed in a dark manner even though a failure that is not determined to be important has occurred only in a small number of lower-level processing devices 200.

  Moreover, in the upper processing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment, the configuration storage unit 170 stores at least the data processing resource DOR implemented for each lower processing apparatus 200, and the improvement distribution unit 160 refers to the configuration storage unit 170. Then, the failure improvement information EBD is distributed to the lower level processing device 200 in which the data processing resource DOR corresponding to the failure cause notification ECD is mounted.

  For this reason, the failure improvement information EBD is not distributed to unrelated lower-level processing devices 200. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the failure improvement information EBD from being uniformly distributed to all of the enormous number of lower-level processing devices 200 and causing congestion in the communication network CIN.

  Further, since the lower level processing apparatus 200 does not receive the failure improvement information EBD that is not related to the own device, the received failure improvement information EBD is not required to determine whether the received failure improvement information EBD is related to the own device. The improvement information EBD can be applied to the own device unconditionally.

  Further, in the upper processing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment, the improvement distribution unit 160 distributes the failure improvement information EBD at a plurality of stages of information distribution timing DDT. In that case, the improvement acquisition unit 150 acquires the failure improvement information EBD to which the unique information distribution timing DDT is individually assigned, and the improvement distribution unit 160 determines that the accumulated failure severity value EIN exceeds the improvement distribution threshold BDS. Corresponding failure improvement information EBD is distributed at information distribution timing DDT unique to each.

  Therefore, every time the accumulated failure severity value EIN exceeds the improved distribution threshold BDS, the failure improvement information EBD is not distributed, so that congestion of the communication network CIN can be further prevented.

  In particular, for example, the failure improvement information EBD can be distributed in time division at the information distribution timing DDT corresponding to a plurality of levels of importance. Therefore, the failure severity numerical value EIN uniquely determined by the lower level processing device 200 The failure improvement information EBD can be distributed in correspondence with both the importance of the failure improvement information EBD determined uniquely by the host processing device 100.

  The present invention is not limited to the present embodiment, and various modifications are allowed without departing from the scope of the present invention. For example, in the above embodiment, it is exemplified that the failure severity value EIN of the failure cause notification ECD is set uniquely for each of the plurality of lower-level processing devices 200.

  However, in the lower level processing apparatus 200, the failure severity value EIN may be set uniquely for each data processing resource DOR, or the failure severity value EIN may be set uniquely for each data processing operation DOM.

  In these cases, the failure severity numerical value EIN can be set not only according to the importance of the plurality of lower-level processing devices 200 but also corresponding to the importance of the data processing resource DOR and the data processing operation DOM. Accordingly, it is possible to control the distribution timing of the failure improvement information EBD more precisely.

  Moreover, in the said form, it illustrated that the failure severity numerical value EIN was uniquely set by the low-order processor 200. However, the severity assigning means (not shown) of the upper processing device 100 may individually assign the failure severity value EIN to each of the plurality of lower processing devices 200. In this case, the failure severity value EIN of each of the plurality of lower-level processing devices 200 can be centrally managed by the higher-level processing device 100.

  Further, in the above embodiment, it is exemplified that one improved distribution threshold BDS is set in the improved distribution unit 160. However, the improvement acquisition unit 150 acquires the failure improvement information EBD to which the individual improved delivery threshold BDS is assigned, and the failure improvement exceeds the improved delivery threshold BDS to which the accumulated failure severity value EIN is individually assigned. The information EBD may be distributed by the improvement distribution unit 160 (not shown).

  In this case, since the improved delivery threshold value BDS is set for each failure improvement information EBD, for example, a low-value improved delivery threshold value BDS is set for the failure improvement information EBD determined to be important by the host processing device 100. The failure improvement information EBD can be distributed more quickly.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the improvement storage unit 180 is provided in the host processing apparatus 100, and the failure improvement information EBD is registered for each information distribution timing DDT together with the failure cause notification ECD.

  However, such an improvement storage unit 180 may be external to the host processing apparatus 100, and the host processing apparatus 100 may acquire the failure improvement information EBD (not shown). In this case, for example, the host processing device 100 acquires the failure improvement information EBD as necessary from a data processing device (not shown) of a service company that generates the failure improvement information EBD in response to the failure cause notification ECD. Can do.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the configuration of the data processing resource DOR is registered in the configuration storage unit 170 of the upper processing device 100 for each lower processing device 200, and the lower processing device 200 having the data processing resource DOR to which the failure improvement information EBD corresponds. Explained to be delivered only to.

  However, the improvement distribution unit 160 may distribute the failure cause information EBD to the lower level processing apparatus 200 that outputs the failure cause notification ECD. In this case, the failure improvement information EBD is not distributed to the lower level processing device 200 that has the corresponding data processing resource DOR but has not failed.

  For example, the cause of the failure cannot be simply limited to each data processing resource DOR, so that the failure improvement information EBD can be distributed only to the lower-level processing device 200 that is really necessary.

  Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the respective units 110 to 110 of the host processing apparatus 100 are exemplified as various functions logically realized by a computer program. However, each of these units can be formed as unique hardware, or can be realized as a combination of software and hardware.

  Needless to say, the above-described embodiment and a plurality of modifications can be combined within a range in which the contents do not conflict with each other. Further, in the above-described embodiments and modifications, the structure of each part has been specifically described, but the structure and the like can be changed in various ways within a range that satisfies the present invention.

100 upper processing apparatus 110 data communication section 120 notification acquisition section 130 severity acquisition section 140 severity accumulation section 150 improvement acquisition section 160 improvement distribution section 170 configuration storage section 180 improvement storage section 200 lower processing apparatus 1000 data processing system BDS improvement distribution threshold CIN communication Network DDT Information distribution timing DOM Data processing operation DOR Data processing resource EBD Failure improvement information ECD Failure cause notification EIN Failure severity value

Claims (13)

Data communication means for intercommunication with a plurality of lower-level processing devices each executing various data processing operations by using various data processing resources implemented;
Notification acquisition means for acquiring a failure cause notification for notifying at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause from the lower-level processing device in which the failure has occurred, by the mutual communication;
Severity acquisition means for acquiring a failure severity numerical value specific to at least each of the lower processing devices together with the failure cause notification,
Severity accumulation means for accumulating the failure severity value for each failure cause notification acquired;
Improvement acquisition means for acquiring specific failure improvement information for each failure cause notification;
Improved distribution means for distributing the corresponding failure improvement information to at least some of the plurality of lower-level processing devices by the mutual communication when the failure severity value accumulated for each failure cause notification exceeds a predetermined improvement distribution threshold; ,
A host processor.   The host processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the severity acquisition unit acquires the failure severity value unique to each data processing resource.   The host processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the severity acquisition unit acquires the failure severity value unique to each data processing operation.   4. The upper processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a severity providing unit that individually assigns the failure severity numerical value to each of the plurality of lower processing apparatuses. 5. The improvement acquisition means acquires the failure improvement information to which the improvement distribution threshold specific to each is assigned,
5. The higher-level processing device according to claim 1, wherein the improvement distribution unit distributes the failure improvement information that exceeds the improvement distribution threshold to which the accumulated failure severity values are individually assigned. 6. . Configuration storage means for storing the data processing resource mounted at least for each lower-level processing device,
6. The improvement distribution unit according to claim 1, wherein the improvement distribution unit distributes the failure improvement information to the lower-level processing device in which the data processing resource corresponding to the failure cause notification is mounted with reference to the configuration storage unit. The host processing apparatus according to one item.   The upper processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the improvement distribution unit distributes the failure improvement information to the lower processing apparatus that outputs the corresponding failure cause notification.   The upper processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the improvement distribution unit distributes the failure improvement information at a plurality of stages of information distribution timing. The improvement acquisition means acquires the failure improvement information to which the unique information distribution timing is individually given,
9. The improvement distribution unit according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein when the accumulated failure severity value exceeds the improvement distribution threshold, the corresponding failure improvement information is distributed at the information distribution timing specific to each. The upper processing apparatus described. A data processing system in which at least one upper processing device and a plurality of lower processing devices communicate with each other,
The host processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
The lower processing device that transmits a failure cause notification that notifies at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause when a failure occurs together with the failure severity value specific to each individual to the upper processing device;
A data processing system. A low-order processing device of the data processing system according to claim 10,
A lower processing device that transmits a failure cause notification that notifies at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause when a failure occurs together with at least the failure severity value specific to each individual to the upper processing device. A computer program of the host processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
Data communication processing for intercommunication with a plurality of lower-level processing devices each executing various data processing operations by using various data processing resources implemented;
A notification acquisition process for acquiring a failure cause notification for notifying at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause from the lower-level processing device in which the failure has occurred, by the mutual communication;
Severity acquisition processing for acquiring a failure severity numerical value specific to at least the lower-level processing device together with the failure cause notification;
Severity accumulation processing for accumulating the failure severity numerical value for each failure cause notification acquired,
Improvement acquisition processing for acquiring failure improvement information unique to each failure cause notification;
Improved distribution processing for distributing the corresponding failure improvement information to at least some of the plurality of lower-level processing devices by the mutual communication when the failure severity value accumulated for each failure cause notification exceeds a predetermined improved distribution threshold; ,
Is a computer program that causes a host processing device to execute. A data processing method for a host processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
A data communication operation for intercommunication with a plurality of lower-level processing devices each executing various data processing operations by means of various data processing resources implemented;
A notification acquisition operation for acquiring a failure cause notification for notifying at least the data processing resource determined to be the cause from the lower-level processing device in which the failure has occurred, by the mutual communication;
Severity acquisition operation for acquiring a failure severity value specific to at least the lower-level processing device together with the failure cause notification,
Severe accumulation operation for accumulating the failure severity value for each failure cause notification acquired,
Improvement acquisition operation for acquiring failure improvement information specific to each failure cause notification;
An improved distribution operation for distributing the corresponding failure improvement information to at least some of the plurality of lower-level processing devices by the mutual communication when the failure severity value accumulated for each failure cause notification exceeds a predetermined improvement distribution threshold; ,
A data processing method.

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