JP2012084015A - Information processor, operation management method, and operation management program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor, an operation management method, and an operation management program capable of optimizing the control of a plurality of operation management devices for a management target.SOLUTION: An information processor 201 comprises: a rule collection part 10 for obtaining one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for performing a control for the management target, and a control content to be executed, from each of a plurality of operation management devices; and a duplication determination part 30 for determining a plurality of rules, in which the management target and condition coincide between the operation management devices, from among the rules obtained by the rule collection part 10.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an operation management method, and an operation management program, and more particularly to an information processing apparatus, an operation management method, and an operation management program that optimize control of a plurality of operation management apparatuses with respect to a management target.

  An example of an operation management system is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-4337 (Patent Document 1). In other words, the determination unit requests execution of the workflow described in the operation management policy, and the execution unit that executes the requested workflow determines an abnormal state based on the constraint that does not appear in the policy description based on the stop determination rule. Detect. When the execution means detects an abnormal state, the execution means stops the autonomous control partially by stopping the execution of the workflow according to the request from the specific determination means or the request for the specific control target, and debugging work by an administrator or the like is performed. Increase efficiency.

  In addition, Japanese Patent Publication No. 2006-051599 (Patent Document 2) discloses the following configuration. That is, when the first action request is input, the action handler search means analyzes the request content of the first action request, and the action handler corresponding to the request content indicated in the first action request is displayed in the action handler table. Retrieved from Then, the action handler detected by the action handler search means is activated by the action execution means, the processing defined in the activated action handler is executed, and the request content indicated in the first action request is incomplete Then, a second action request indicating the content of the request for processing incomplete in the common data structure is generated and transmitted.

  Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2007-148738 (Patent Document 3) discloses the following configuration. That is, in an information monitoring method for monitoring information of a plurality of computers, item identification information in a performance information acquisition request is converted to item identification information of a monitoring target computer, and the converted acquisition request is communicated to the monitoring target computer A step of transmitting by the device, a step of acquiring the performance information of the computer to be monitored for the item indicated by the item identification information after conversion in the acquisition request and transmitting by the communication device, and a transmission from the computer to be monitored Acquiring the item identification information and unit in the performance information obtained, converting the item identification information and unit into the item identification information and unit of the requesting device, and transmitting the item identification information and unit to the acquisition requesting device by the communication device.

JP 2007-4337 A JP-T 2006-051599 JP 2007-148738 A

  In the operation management of a data center where a large number of servers operate, the servers are monitored, analyzed and controlled from various viewpoints such as application response performance, network and security. For this reason, in the data center, a plurality of operation management apparatuses that take on the functions of the respective viewpoints are introduced.

  Each operation management apparatus performs monitoring analysis control according to the viewpoint of each operation management apparatus. For this reason, each operation management apparatus individually performs optimum control, but it is not always optimum control when viewed as the overall operation management of the data center.

  Specifically, the server resource management device adds a server resource when the response decreases, whereas the AP (application) server management device restricts access to the AP server. There has been a problem that it is difficult to perform optimum operation management in the data center.

  However, Patent Documents 2 and 3 do not disclose a configuration for solving such a problem.

  Further, even with the configuration described in Patent Document 1, it is not possible to optimize the control of a plurality of operation management apparatuses with respect to a management target because it simply detects an abnormal state and stops autonomous control.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is an information processing apparatus, an operation management method, and an operation management program capable of optimizing control of a plurality of operation management apparatuses with respect to a management target. Is to provide.

  In order to solve the above problems, an information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention provides a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control to be executed from each of a plurality of operation management apparatuses. A rule collection unit for acquiring one or a plurality of rules indicating the contents, and a plurality of the above-described management targets and the above-mentioned conditions are matched between the respective operation management devices from each of the rules acquired by the rule collection unit. A duplication identification unit for identifying a rule.

  In order to solve the above problems, an operation management method according to an aspect of the present invention includes a management object, a condition for executing control on the management object, and a control to be executed from each of a plurality of operation management apparatuses. A step of acquiring one or a plurality of rules indicating the contents, and a step of specifying a plurality of the rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management devices from the acquired rules.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, an operation management program according to an aspect of the present invention provides a computer with a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and an execution from each of a plurality of operation management devices. Obtaining one or a plurality of rules indicating control contents to be controlled, and identifying a plurality of the rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management devices from the obtained rules. Is executed.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to optimize control of a plurality of operation management apparatuses with respect to a management target.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an operation management system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. It is a schematic block diagram of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement procedure at the time of the information processing apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention performing operation management processing. It is a figure which shows the content of the operation management information stored in the rule memory | storage part 52 of the operation management apparatus 210. FIG. It is a figure which shows the content of the operation management information stored in the rule memory | storage part 54 of the operation management apparatus 220. FIG. It is a figure which shows the content of the operation management information stored in the rule memory | storage part 56 of the operation management apparatus 230. FIG. It is a figure which shows the content of the operation management information of the operation management apparatus 210 passed to the rule normalization part 20. FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the contents of operation management information of the operation management apparatus 220 passed to the rule normalization unit 20. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the contents of operation management information of the operation management device 230 passed to the rule normalization unit 20. It is a figure which shows the information stored in the rule normalization database. It is a figure which shows the content of the rule after normalization of the operation management apparatus. It is a figure which shows the content of the rule after normalization of the operation management apparatus. It is a figure which shows the content of the rule after normalization of the operation management apparatus 230. FIG. It is a figure which shows the result of grouping by the control action duplication specific | specification part 30. FIG. It is a figure which shows the presentation screen of the rule by the rule cooperation proposal presentation part. It is a figure which shows the correction content of the control action by the operation manager. It is a figure which shows the content of the rule which reflected the correction content by the operation manager. It is a figure which shows the content of the rule which the rule reduction part 50 outputs. It is a figure which shows the structure of the operation management system which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof will not be repeated.

<First Embodiment>
[Configuration and basic operation]
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an operation management system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
With reference to FIG. 1, the operation management system 401 includes an information processing apparatus 201 and operation management apparatuses 210, 220, and 230. In FIG. 1, the operation management system 401 includes three operation management apparatuses. However, the operation management system 401 may be configured to include two or four or more operation management apparatuses.

  The operation management apparatus is provided according to the type of management such as server operation management, database operation management, and network operation management. Here, the operation management apparatus is modeled as being composed of at least a monitoring analysis control unit and a rule storage unit. For example, the operation management apparatus 210 includes a monitoring analysis control unit 51 and a rule storage unit 52. The operation management apparatus 220 includes a monitoring analysis control unit 53 and a rule storage unit 54. The operation management device 230 includes a monitoring analysis control unit 55 and a rule storage unit 56. The monitoring analysis control units 51, 53, and 55 monitor the status of management targets for all the rules stored in the rule storage units 52, 54, and 56, respectively, and manage them when any rule condition is satisfied. Perform control actions on the target. Here, the rule is information indicating what control action is executed on which management target when what kind of event occurs.

  The information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention typically has a basic structure of a computer having a general-purpose architecture, and executes various programs as will be described later by executing a preinstalled program. Provide functionality. In general, such a program is stored in a recording medium such as a flexible disk and a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) or distributed via a network or the like.

  The program according to the first embodiment of the present invention may be provided by being incorporated in a part of another program such as an OS. Even in this case, the program itself according to the first embodiment of the present invention does not include a module included in another program as described above, and the process is executed in cooperation with the other program. Is done. In other words, the program according to the first embodiment of the present invention may be a form incorporated in such another program.

  Alternatively, some or all of the functions provided by program execution may be implemented as a dedicated hardware circuit.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  Referring to FIG. 2, an information processing apparatus 201 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 101 that is an arithmetic processing unit, a main memory 102, a hard disk 103, an input interface 104, a display controller 105, and a data reader / writer. 106 and a communication interface 107. These units are connected to each other via a bus 121 so that data communication is possible.

  The CPU 101 performs various operations by developing programs (codes) stored in the hard disk 103 in the main memory 102 and executing them in a predetermined order. The main memory 102 is typically a volatile storage device such as a DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), and stores data indicating various arithmetic processing results in addition to programs read from the hard disk 103. To do. The hard disk 103 is a non-volatile magnetic storage device, and stores various setting values in addition to programs executed by the CPU 101. The program installed in the hard disk 103 is distributed in a state of being stored in the recording medium 111 as will be described later. In addition to the hard disk 103 or instead of the hard disk 103, a semiconductor storage device such as a flash memory may be employed.

  The input interface 104 mediates data transmission between the CPU 101 and an input unit such as a keyboard 108, a mouse 109, and a touch panel (not shown). That is, the input interface 104 receives an external input such as an operation command given by a user operating the input unit.

  The display controller 105 is connected to a display 110 that is a typical example of a display unit, and controls display on the display 110. That is, the display controller 105 displays the result of image processing by the CPU 101 to the user. The display 110 is, for example, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube).

  The data reader / writer 106 mediates data transmission between the CPU 101 and the recording medium 111. That is, the recording medium 111 is distributed in a state where a program executed by the information processing apparatus 201 is stored, and the data reader / writer 106 reads the program from the recording medium 111. Further, the data reader / writer 106 writes the processing result in the information processing apparatus 201 into the recording medium 111 in response to the internal command of the CPU 101. The recording medium 111 is, for example, a general-purpose semiconductor storage device such as CF (Compact Flash) and SD (Secure Digital), a magnetic storage medium such as a flexible disk, or a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only). Memory).

  The communication interface 107 mediates data transmission between the CPU 101 and other personal computers and server devices. The communication interface 107 typically has an Ethernet (registered trademark) or USB (Universal Serial Bus) communication function. Instead of installing the program stored in the recording medium 111 in the information processing apparatus 201, a program downloaded from a distribution server or the like via the communication interface 107 may be installed in the information processing apparatus 201.

  In addition, other output devices such as a printer may be connected to the information processing apparatus 201 as necessary.

[Control structure]
Next, a control structure for providing an operation management function in the information processing apparatus 201 will be described.

  FIG. 1 also shows a control structure provided by the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Each block in the information processing apparatus 201 shown in FIG. 1 is provided by developing a program (code) stored in the hard disk 103 in the main memory 102 and causing the CPU 101 to execute it. A part or all of the control structure shown in FIG. 1 may be realized by dedicated hardware and / or a wiring circuit.

  Referring to FIG. 1, information processing apparatus 201 has, as its control structure, rule collection unit 10, rule normalization unit 20, control action duplication specification unit 30, rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40, and rule reduction unit. 50 and a rule distribution unit 60 as a notification unit. In addition, the information processing apparatus 201 includes a rule normalization database (DB) 70. The rule normalization database 70 is stored in the main memory 102 or the hard disk 103 shown in FIG.

  The rule collection unit 10 collects the rules of the operation management apparatuses 210, 220, and 230 and passes them to the rule normalization unit 20.

  The rule normalization unit 20 normalizes the rules received from the rule collection unit 10 to absorb differences in the data format of the rules collected by the rule collection unit 10 for each operation management device. Then, the rule normalizing unit 20 passes the normalized rule to the control action duplication specifying unit 30.

  The control action duplication identification unit 30 identifies a plurality of rules having the same control target, the same metric, and the same condition and having a control action among the rules received from the rule normalization unit 20, and a rule cooperation proposal presenting unit Pass to 40.

  The rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 presents a plurality of rules identified by the control action duplication identifying unit 30 to the operation manager, and requests correction of the control action. Then, the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 passes the rule corrected according to the correction instruction from the operation manager to the rule returning unit 50.

  The rule reduction unit 50 extracts only the rules modified by the operation manager via the rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40, returns the extracted rules to the data format of the rules before normalization, and passes them to the rule distribution unit 60.

  The rule distribution unit 60 passes the rule received from the rule return unit 50 to the original operation management apparatus.

[Operation]
Next, the operation of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the first embodiment of the present invention, the operation management method according to the first embodiment of the present invention is performed by operating the information processing apparatus 201. Therefore, the description of the operation management method according to the first embodiment of the present invention is replaced with the following description of the operation of the information processing apparatus 201. In the following description, FIG. 1 is referred to as appropriate.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure when the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention performs operation management processing.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the contents of the operation management information stored in the rule storage unit 52 of the operation management apparatus 210. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the contents of the operation management information stored in the rule storage unit 54 of the operation management apparatus 220. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the contents of the operation management information stored in the rule storage unit 56 of the operation management apparatus 230.

  4 to 6, each operation management information is composed of a plurality of rules. Each rule includes a management target indicating a management target, a metric indicating a monitoring item, a condition including a threshold, and a condition including the condition. Control actions to be performed when satisfied.

  The operation management information shown in FIG. 4 will be described representatively. This operation management information is a rule in which the management target is the server A, the metric, that is, the monitoring item is M11001, the condition is C1011, and the control action is A1011. The management target is VM (virtual machine) B, the metric, that is, the monitoring item is M11011, the condition is C1021, the control action is A1012, and the management target is the server C, and the metric, that is, the monitoring item Is M11111, the condition is C1013, and the control action is A1013. Specifically, the first rule is, for example, when the CPU load (metric) of the server A (managed object) is 90% or more (condition), the operation of the server A is stopped (control action). The content is.

  With reference to FIG. 3, first, the rule collection unit 10 collects operation management information from the operation management apparatus 210, the operation management apparatus 220, and the operation management apparatus 230, and sets the operation management apparatus to the rules of each collected operation management information. The name is added to the rule normalization unit 20 (step S1).

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the contents of the operation management information of the operation management apparatus 210 passed to the rule normalization unit 20. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the contents of the operation management information of the operation management apparatus 220 passed to the rule normalization unit 20. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the contents of the operation management information of the operation management device 230 passed to the rule normalization unit 20.

  7 to 9, for example, the operation management information of the operation control apparatus 210 shown in FIG. 4 is as shown in FIG. 7, with the operation management apparatus 1 being the operation management apparatus name added to the head of each rule. And is passed to the rule normalization unit 20. The operation management information of the operation control device 220 shown in FIG. 5 is converted as shown in FIG. 8 by adding the operation management device 2 as the operation management device name to the head of each rule, and passed to the rule normalization unit 20. . The operation management information of the operation control device 230 shown in FIG. 6 is converted as shown in FIG. 9 by adding the operation management device 3 as the operation management device name to the head of each rule, and passed to the rule normalization unit 20. .

  Next, the rule normalization unit 20 refers to the rule normalization database 70 and indicates the rule received from the rule collection unit 10 based on the operation management device name and metric of the rule to which the operation management device name is added. The event corresponding to the metric is specified, and the information of the specified event is added to the rule. Here, the event is an event corresponding to the monitoring item.

  That is, even if the metric of the rule in each operation management apparatus indicates the same event, it may be expressed by a different metric for each operation apparatus, that is, expressed in different data formats. In the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to deal with this problem by providing the rule normalization unit 20 that adds event information indicating a corresponding event to a rule.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing information stored in the rule normalization database 70.
Each record of information shown in FIG. 10 includes an operation management apparatus name, a metric, and an event, and indicates which event the operation management apparatus metric corresponds to. In the first record shown in FIG. 10, when the metric of the rule whose operation management device name is “operation management device 1” is “M11001”, the metric (monitor item) is an event “E1001”. It corresponds to that.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating the contents of the rule after normalization of the operation management apparatus 210.
For example, in the first rule shown in FIG. 7, the operation management apparatus name is “operation management apparatus 1” and the metric is “M11001”. For this reason, based on the first record shown in FIG. 10, the corresponding event is determined as “E1001”, and the event “E1001” is added to the rule, which is converted as in the first rule in FIG. Is done.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the contents of the rule after normalization of the operation management apparatus 220. FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating the content of the rule after normalization of the operation management apparatus 230.

  The rule normalization unit 20 performs the above-described conversion on all the rules, converts the rules shown in FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 into the rules shown in FIGS. 11, 12, and 13, and performs control. It is passed to the action duplication identification unit 30.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a result of grouping by the control action duplication specifying unit 30.
The control action duplication specifying unit 30 extracts a rule having the same event, management target, and condition among the rules from all the rules received from the rule normalization unit 20. Then, the extracted rules are grouped into rules having the same event, management target, and condition, and passed to the rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40. FIG. 14 shows the result of grouping for all the rules shown in FIGS. 11, 12, and 13.

  That is, the rules having the events “E1001” and “E1011” are grouped because there are a plurality of rules having the same management target and condition, and passed to the rule cooperation proposal presenting unit 40.

  On the other hand, the rules having the events “E1111” and “E3333” are not subject to grouping because there are no other rules having the same management target and condition, and are not passed to the rule cooperation proposal presenting unit 40 (step S40). S3).

  Next, the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 presents the grouped rules received from the control action duplication identifying unit 30 to the operation manager (step S4).

  Next, the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 requests the operation manager to select a control action to be executed and to modify the control action, accepts the modification of the operation manager, modifies the rule according to the amendment contents, and modifies the rule. The rule is passed to the rule reduction unit 50 (step S5).

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a rule presentation screen by the rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40.
For example, the rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40 displays each rule grouped by the event “E1001” shown in FIG. 14 on a screen as shown in FIG. On the screen, only the control action display portions 1301, 1302, and 1303 can be edited. On this screen, the operation manager deletes the control action if the control action in a certain operation management apparatus is not executed, and modifies the control action if the control action in a certain operation management apparatus is changed. .

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing the correction contents of the control action by the operation manager.
FIG. 16 shows that the operation manager does not execute the control action of the operation management apparatus 2 and changes the control action of the operation management apparatus 3 to “A9999”.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing the contents of the rules reflecting the contents of correction by the operation manager.
When the operation manager performs the modification as shown in FIG. 16, the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 modifies the control action of the rule whose event is “E1001” shown in FIG. A rule as shown in FIG. 17 to which the presence or absence of correction is added is created and passed to the rule reduction unit 50.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating the contents of the rules output by the rule reduction unit 50.
Next, the rule return unit 50 receives the rule as shown in FIG. 17 from the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40, cancels the grouping of the rule, and deletes the rule whose “correction presence / absence” is “none”. Then, a rule as shown in FIG. 18 in which the “event” column and the “presence / absence of correction” column are deleted is created and passed to the rule distribution unit 60.

  Next, the rule distribution unit 60 receives the rule as shown in FIG. 18 from the rule return unit 50, and adds the “operation management device name” column to the operation management device indicated by the “operation management device name” column of the rule. Pass the deleted rule. As a result, the modified rule is reflected in the operation management apparatus (step S6).

  By the way, in operation management of a data center where a large number of servers operate, each operation management device performs monitoring analysis control in accordance with the viewpoint of each operation management device, which is optimal when viewed from the perspective of overall data center operation management. There is a problem in that it is difficult to perform optimal operation management in the data center because control contradiction occurs between operation management apparatuses, not necessarily in control.

  That is, the configurations described in Patent Documents 1 to 3 have a problem that the control of a plurality of operation management apparatuses with respect to the management target cannot be optimized.

  The cause is that each operation management apparatus cannot grasp the rules of other operation management apparatuses. For this reason, when a certain event occurs, each operation management device executes a control action for a certain server.

  On the other hand, in the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the rule collection unit 10 receives a management target and a condition for executing control on the management target from each of the plurality of operation management apparatuses. And one or more rules indicating the control contents to be executed. The control action duplication specifying unit 30 specifies a plurality of rules having the same management target and condition between the respective operation management devices from each rule acquired by the rule collecting unit 10.

  For example, a set of rules having a control action is identified from a plurality of rules indicating the same control object and the same phenomenon, the operation manager is requested to correct the rule, and the correction is reflected in the operation management apparatus. With such a configuration, it can be specified and prevented in advance that the same control action is executed a plurality of times for the occurrence event, or the opposite control actions are executed.

  That is, among the constituent elements in the information processing apparatus 201 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the minimum configuration including the rule collection unit 10 and the control action duplication specifying unit 30 allows a plurality of operation management apparatuses to be managed. It is possible to achieve the object of the present invention to optimize the control.

  Specifically, in an environment where a plurality of operation management devices such as a data center are installed, control contradiction between operation management devices is specified, for example, a server in which a plurality of control actions are set is specified, and data A rule cooperation plan that is a rule for the operation management of the center is presented to the administrator. Thereby, control contradiction can be avoided and overall optimization of data center operation management can be achieved.

  Further, in the information processing device according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the rule collection unit 10 includes a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and an execution from each of the plurality of operation management devices. One or a plurality of rules indicating control contents to be monitored and monitoring items are acquired. The rule normalization unit 20 changes the monitoring item indicated by the rule acquired by the rule collection unit 10 from each operation management apparatus to a common data format. Then, the control action duplication specifying unit 30 uses the monitoring items changed by the rule normalization unit 20 to monitor the monitoring items, management targets, and conditions between the operation management devices from the rules acquired by the rule collection unit 10. Identify multiple rules that match.

  With such a configuration, even if the rule monitoring items in each operation management apparatus are expressed in different data formats, it is possible to specify a rule set in which a plurality of control actions exist for the same control target and the same event. it can.

  In the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 presents the rule specified by the control action duplication specifying unit 30 to the user.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to notify the user early of the existence of a rule set in which a plurality of control actions exist for the same control object and the same event.

  In the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40 receives a user's correction instruction for the control content indicated by the presented rule, and changes the control content according to the correction instruction. And the rule distribution part 60 notifies the rule which shows the control content changed by the rule cooperation proposal presentation part 40 to a corresponding operation management apparatus.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to reflect a rule correction instruction from the user in the rules of the operation management apparatus.

  In the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the control action duplication specifying unit 30 is a rule having the same control target, the same metric, and the same condition among the rules received from the rule normalization unit 20. A plurality of rules having control actions are identified. That is, the control action duplication specifying unit 30 excludes a rule that does not include control content from among the rules acquired by the rule collecting unit 10 from the specifying target.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to specify only rules that are likely to need to be corrected.

  Although the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention is configured to be provided separately from the operation management apparatuses 210, 220, and 230, the present invention is not limited to this. The information processing apparatus 201 may be included in any one of the operation management apparatuses 210, 220, and 230.

  Moreover, although the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention is configured to include the rule normalization unit 20, the present invention is not limited to this. When there is no difference in data format between the operation management apparatuses regarding the rules, the information processing apparatus 201 may be configured not to include the rule normalization unit 20.

  In the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the control action duplication specifying unit 30 is a rule having the same control target, the same metric, and the same condition among the rules received from the rule normalization unit 20. In this configuration, a plurality of rules having a control action are identified and passed to the rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The control action duplication identification unit 30 may identify a plurality of rules having the same control target, the same metric, and the same condition from the rules received from the rule normalization unit 20 and pass the rule to the rule cooperation plan presentation unit 40. Good. That is, the control action duplication specifying unit 30 is configured to specify a rule that does not have a control action, for example, a rule in which the operation administrator forgets to specify the content of the control action or intentionally deletes the control action. There may be.

  Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the drawings, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof will not be repeated.

<Second Embodiment>
The present embodiment relates to an information processing apparatus in which a method for presenting a rule to a user is changed as compared with the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment. The contents other than those described below are the same as those of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a configuration of an operation management system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 19, the operation management system 402 includes an information processing device 202 and operation management devices 210, 220, and 230.

  The information processing apparatus 202 includes a rule collection unit 10, a rule normalization unit 20, a control action duplication specifying unit 30, a cooperation rule recording unit 41, and a cooperation rule recording log 42 as its control structure. That is, the information processing device 202 includes a cooperation rule recording unit 41 and a cooperation rule recording log 42 instead of the rule cooperation plan presenting unit 40, as compared with the information processing device according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In this configuration, the reduction unit 50 and the rule distribution unit 60 are not provided. The cooperation rule recording log 42 is stored in the main memory 102 or the hard disk 103 shown in FIG.

  The cooperation rule recording unit 41 records the rule received from the control action duplication specifying unit 30 in the cooperation rule recording log 42 without presenting it to the operation manager.

  As described above, in the information processing apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the cooperation rule recording unit 41 records the rule specified by the control action duplication specifying unit 30. That is, a rule set having a control action is specified from the rules indicating the same control object and the same phenomenon, and recorded in the cooperation rule recording log 42. Thus, the operation manager does not modify the rules one by one as in the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, but the operation manager refers to the cooperation rule record log 42, for example, operation management It is possible to collectively check problematic rules in the entire operation management apparatus in the system 402. As a result, it is possible to check the problematic rules in each operation management apparatus at a time, and to make important corrections with priority.

  Since other configurations and operations are the same as those of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment, detailed description thereof will not be repeated here.

  The above embodiment should be considered as illustrative in all points and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the terms of the claims, rather than the description above, and is intended to include any modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the terms of the claims.

  The present invention can be applied, for example, to an application for avoiding control contradiction between operation management apparatuses in an environment where a plurality of operation management apparatuses such as a data center is introduced. Therefore, the present invention has industrial applicability.

  Although a part or all of the above embodiments can be described as the following supplementary notes, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following supplementary notes.

[Appendix 1]
A rule collection unit for obtaining one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control content to be executed from each of the plurality of operation management devices;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a duplication identification unit for identifying a plurality of the rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management apparatuses from the rules acquired by the rule collection unit.

[Appendix 2]
The rule collection unit includes one or more rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, a control content to be executed, and a monitoring item from each of the plurality of operation management devices. Get
The information processing apparatus further includes:
The rule collection unit includes a normalization unit for changing the monitoring item indicated by the rule acquired from each operation management device to a common data format,
The duplication identification unit uses the monitoring items changed by the normalization unit, and from the rules acquired by the rule collection unit, the monitoring items, the management targets, and the management targets between the operation management devices. The information processing apparatus according to appendix 1, wherein a plurality of the rules with matching conditions are specified.

[Appendix 3]
The information processing apparatus further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to appendix 1 or 2, comprising a presentation unit for presenting the rule identified by the duplication identification unit to a user.

[Appendix 4]
The presenting unit accepts a user's correction instruction for the control content indicated by the presented rule, changes the control content according to the correction instruction,
The information processing apparatus further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to appendix 3, further comprising a notification unit for notifying the corresponding operation management apparatus of the rule indicating the control content changed by the presentation unit.

[Appendix 5]
The information processing apparatus further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to appendix 1 or 2, further comprising a recording unit for recording the rule specified by the duplication specifying unit.

[Appendix 6]
The information processing apparatus according to any one of appendices 1 to 5, wherein the duplication identification unit excludes, from the identification target, the rule that does not include the control content among the rules acquired by the rule collection unit.

[Appendix 7]
Obtaining, from each of a plurality of operation management devices, one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control content to be executed;
And a step of identifying a plurality of rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management devices from the acquired rules.

[Appendix 8]
In the step of acquiring the rule, from each of the plurality of operation management apparatuses, a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, a control content to be executed, and a monitoring item are displayed. Get multiple rules,
The operation management method further includes:
Changing the monitoring item indicated by the rule acquired from each of the operation management devices to a common data format in the step of acquiring the rule;
In the step of specifying the rule, the monitoring item, the management between the operation management devices from the rule acquired in the step of acquiring the rule using each monitoring item whose data format has been changed. The operation management method according to appendix 7, wherein a plurality of the rules that match the target and the condition are specified.

[Appendix 9]
The operation management method further includes:
The operation management method according to appendix 7 or 8, comprising a step of presenting the rule specified in the step of specifying the rule to a user.

[Appendix 10]
In the step of presenting the rule, a user's correction instruction for the control content indicated by the presented rule is accepted, and the control content is changed according to the correction instruction.
The operation management method further includes:
The operation management method according to appendix 9, including a step of notifying the corresponding operation management apparatus of the rule indicating the control content changed in the step of presenting the rule.

[Appendix 11]
The operation management method further includes:
The operation management method according to appendix 7 or 8, comprising a step of recording the rule specified in the step of specifying the rule.

[Appendix 12]
In the step of specifying the rule, among the rules acquired in the step of acquiring the rule, the rule that does not include the control content is excluded from the specification target. Operation management method.

[Appendix 13]
On the computer,
Obtaining, from each of a plurality of operation management devices, one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control content to be executed;
An operation management program that executes, from each of the acquired rules, a step of identifying a plurality of rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management devices.

[Appendix 14]
In the step of acquiring the rule, from each of the plurality of operation management apparatuses, a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, a control content to be executed, and a monitoring item are displayed. Get multiple rules,
The operation management program is further stored in a computer.
In the step of acquiring the rule, the step of changing the monitoring item indicated by the rule acquired from each of the operation management devices to a common data format is executed,
In the step of specifying the rule, the monitoring item, the management between the operation management devices from the rule acquired in the step of acquiring the rule using each monitoring item whose data format has been changed. The operation management program according to attachment 13, wherein a plurality of the rules that match the target and the condition are specified.

[Appendix 15]
The operation management program is further stored in a computer.
The operation management program according to appendix 13 or 14, wherein a step of presenting the rule specified in the step of specifying the rule to a user is executed.

[Appendix 16]
In the step of presenting the rule, a user's correction instruction for the control content indicated by the presented rule is accepted, and the control content is changed according to the correction instruction.
The operation management program is further stored in a computer.
The operation management program according to appendix 15, wherein a step of notifying the corresponding operation management apparatus of the rule indicating the control content changed in the step of presenting the rule is executed.

[Appendix 17]
The operation management program is further stored in a computer.
The operation management program according to appendix 13 or 14, wherein the step of recording the rule specified in the step of specifying the rule is executed.

[Appendix 18]
In the step of specifying the rule, out of the rules acquired in the step of acquiring the rule, the rule that does not include the control content is excluded from the specification target. Operation management program.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Rule collection part 20 Rule normalization part 30 Control action duplication specification part 40 Rule cooperation plan presentation part 41 Cooperation rule recording part 42 Cooperation rule recording log 50 Rule reduction part 51,53,55 Monitoring analysis control part 52,54,56 Rule Storage unit 60 Rule distribution unit 70 Rule normalization database 101 CPU
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 102 Main memory 103 Hard disk 104 Input interface 105 Display controller 106 Data reader / writer 107 Communication interface 108 Keyboard 109 Mouse 110 Display 111 Recording medium 121 Bus 210,220,230 Operation management apparatus 401,402 Operation management system

Claims (8)

A rule collection unit for obtaining one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control content to be executed from each of the plurality of operation management devices;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a duplication identification unit for identifying a plurality of the rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management apparatuses from the rules acquired by the rule collection unit. The rule collection unit includes one or more rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, a control content to be executed, and a monitoring item from each of the plurality of operation management devices. Get
The information processing apparatus further includes:
The rule collection unit includes a normalization unit for changing the monitoring item indicated by the rule acquired from each operation management device to a common data format,
The duplication identification unit uses the monitoring items changed by the normalization unit, and from the rules acquired by the rule collection unit, the monitoring items, the management targets, and the management targets between the operation management devices. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the rules with matching conditions are specified. The information processing apparatus further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a presenting unit for presenting the rule identified by the duplication identifying unit to a user. The presenting unit accepts a user's correction instruction for the control content indicated by the presented rule, changes the control content according to the correction instruction,
The information processing apparatus further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a notification unit configured to notify the corresponding operation management apparatus of the rule indicating the control content changed by the presentation unit. The information processing apparatus further includes:
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a recording unit configured to record the rule specified by the duplication specifying unit.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the duplication identification unit excludes, from the identification target, the rule that does not include the control content among the rules acquired by the rule collection unit. Obtaining, from each of a plurality of operation management devices, one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control content to be executed;
And a step of identifying a plurality of rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management devices from the acquired rules. On the computer,
Obtaining, from each of a plurality of operation management devices, one or a plurality of rules indicating a management target, a condition for executing control on the management target, and a control content to be executed;
An operation management program that executes, from each of the acquired rules, a step of identifying a plurality of rules that match the management target and the conditions between the operation management devices.

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