JP2013069243A - Configuration information management program and configuration information management method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-accuracy configuration information management method enabling use of configuration item information also in other operational services and the like by accumulating built configuration items and templates of relations.SOLUTION: A configuration information management method includes: a configuration item list reading step; a configuration item data model reading step; a data format conversion step of converting the read configuration item list and the configuration item data model; a read-out registration data determination step of checking each of read configuration items with data stored in a template storage database and determining registration data to be read out; a registration data read-out execution step of reading out the data determined in the registration data determination step from the template storage database; and a data comparison execution step of comparing the data converted in the data format conversion step with the data read out in the registration data read-out execution step.

Description

  The present invention is a configuration information management method for managing configuration items, in particular, it is possible to accumulate and divert the constructed configuration items and relation (relevance) templates, and to provide a flexible data structure for accumulation and diversion. The present invention relates to a general-purpose configuration information management method.

  System configuration information (configuration items) such as configuration changes such as network device and server device settings changes, hardware (hereinafter configuration item) changes, and identification of the scope of impact when a failure occurs. ) Must be kept up to date and accurate.

  Conventionally, as a method for managing configuration items (customer information, device information, etc.) used in operation operations, management using paper or spreadsheet software is first considered. However, it has its limitations and there are many patterns for considering the introduction of configuration management tools.

  An easy and efficient management method for these configuration items is described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-038986 (Patent Document 1).

JP 2004-038986 A

  However, there are a wide variety of configuration items used in operations for various services, and it is difficult to find a configuration information management tool suitable for each. It also takes effort to customize it to match the current operations.

  The object of the present invention is to accumulate the constructed configuration items and relation templates so that the configuration item information can be diverted even in other operations and the like, and a highly accurate configuration information management is realized. Is to provide.

  The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will be apparent from the description of this specification and the accompanying drawings.

  Of the inventions disclosed in the present application, the outline of typical ones will be briefly described as follows.

  The configuration information management program according to the representative embodiment of the present invention includes an input terminal of a configuration item data model including a configuration item list of configuration items and a relevance of the configuration item, and a terminal accessible to the template storage database. A configuration information management program that operates on an information processing apparatus used for managing configuration items, the configuration item list reading step for reading a configuration item list corresponding to the target configuration item to the information processing apparatus; A configuration item data model reading step for reading a configuration item data model corresponding to the configuration item, a data format conversion step for converting the read configuration item list and configuration item data model into a format that can be handled in the database, and each read configuration Eye A registration data determination step for determining registration data to be read out against the data stored in the template storage database, and a registration data reading execution step for reading out the data determined in the registration data determination step from the template storage database; A data comparison execution step for comparing the data converted in the data format conversion step and the data read in the registered data read execution step is processed.

  A configuration information management method according to a representative embodiment of the present invention includes an input terminal of a configuration item data model including a configuration item list of configuration items and relevance of configuration items, and a terminal accessible to a template storage database. A configuration information management method for processing by a configuration information management system for managing configuration items, having a configuration item list reading step of reading a configuration item list corresponding to the target configuration item, and corresponding to the target configuration item A configuration item data model reading step for reading a configuration item data model, a data format conversion step for converting the read configuration item list and configuration item data model into a format that can be handled by the database, and a template for each read configuration item A read registration data determination step for determining registration data to be read by collating with data stored in the storage database, a registration data reading execution step for reading data determined in the registration data determination step from the template storage database, and a data format conversion step And a data comparison execution step for comparing the data converted in step 1 and the data read in the registered data read execution step.

  By using the configuration information management program related to the present invention, it becomes possible to use not only the configuration item to be introduced but also the template of the configuration item used in other business, and easy and highly accurate configuration item management. Can be done.

It is a block diagram showing the example of the system using the general purpose structure information management system in connection with this invention. It is a figure which shows 1 of the data format example of a structure item list. It is a figure which shows the data model which described the data format of the structure item list of FIG. 2 by UML. It is a figure which shows the example of the configuration item output from a configuration management database. It is a figure which shows the example of the structure item table for aiming at normalization of the structure item of FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration item template table indicating what ci_template_id in FIG. 5 is intended for. It is the figure which showed the example of the configuration item property table in a configuration management database. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a configuration item property detail table related to the configuration item property ci_property_type_id used in FIG. 7. It is a figure which shows the relation table in a configuration management database. It is a figure which shows the example of the relationship template table in a configuration management database. It is a figure which shows the example of the relationship type table in a configuration management database. It is a figure which shows the example of the structure item template table in a template storage database. It is a figure which shows the example of the structure item property detailed table in a template storage database. It is a figure showing the example of the relation table in a template storage database. It is a figure showing the example of the relationship type table in a template storage database. It is a flowchart which shows the processing operation in connection with this invention of the structure information management program in FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of the comparison result of the input configuration item and the configuration item template stored, and a registration screen.

  In the following embodiment, when it is necessary for the sake of convenience, the description will be divided into a plurality of sections or embodiments. However, unless otherwise specified, it is not irrelevant to one another, and one is related to some or all of the other, details, supplementary explanations, and the like. Also, in the following embodiments, when referring to the number of elements (including the number, numerical value, quantity, range, etc.), especially when clearly indicated and when clearly limited to a specific number in principle, etc. Except for the specific number, the number may be more than or less than the specified number.

  Further, in the following embodiments, it is needless to say that the constituent elements are not necessarily essential unless particularly specified and apparently essential in principle.

    Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an example of a system using a configuration information management method according to the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, a system using the configuration information management method according to the present invention includes a configuration item list 101, a configuration item data model 102 that is a data model including a relationship (relationship) between configuration items in the configuration item list 101, and A configuration information management system 111 and a template storage database 123.

  The configuration item list 101 is data representing a list of configuration devices such as network devices and servers of a system that performs operation work.

  The configuration item data model 102 is data that represents a configuration of the entire system, such as a configuration change such as a hardware change, an influence range when a failure occurs, and indicates a relation of configuration information.

  The configuration information management system 111 is a server (information processing apparatus) that manages a system that uses a configuration information management method based on the configuration item list 101 and the configuration item data model 102, and a program group that operates on the server. As one of the program groups, the configuration information management program 112 exists in the configuration information management system 111.

  Further, the configuration information management system 111 includes a configuration management database 121 having a plurality of tables 131.

  The configuration information management program 112 is one of programs that operate on the configuration information management system 111, and as described above, according to the templates obtained from the configuration item list 101, the configuration item data model 102, and the template storage database 123. Configuration information is formed and stored in the configuration management database 121.

  The configuration management database 121 is database software that stores configuration information formed by the configuration information management program 112 and can output it appropriately. The configuration management database 121 changes the configuration item table as appropriate and outputs it to the template storage database 123.

  In FIG. 1, the configuration item template and the relation template in the configuration management database 121 are appropriately modified and reflected in the template accumulation database 123.

  The template accumulation database 123 is a database that stores data field templates used when forming configuration information.

  The information of the plurality of tables 131 stored in the template storage database 123 stored in the template storage database 123 is stored in the configuration management database 222 used in other operation business, customer site, data center, and the like. The plurality of tables 232 stored in the configuration management database 222 can also be stored in the template accumulation database 123.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating one example of the data format of the configuration item list 101. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data model in which the data format of the configuration item list 101 in FIG. 2 is expressed in UML.

  The data format example of the configuration item list 101 shown in FIG. 2 can be divided into four major configurations: customer information, site information, contract details, and contact system. The configuration information management system 111 forms the configuration information by filling in the individual data fields in the large configuration.

  In the data model example shown in FIG. 3, customer information is associated with site information, operation requester, contract details, operation reporter, device information, and the like, line information is associated with the site information, and device information is associated with the device information. , Device details, operating status, etc. are associated.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of configuration items output from the configuration management database 121.

  As is apparent from this figure, in the configuration information management method according to the present invention, not only main components such as a server but also peripheral devices such as a switching hub (hardware) and an OS (software) used on the server are configured. It becomes a management target in the management database 121. At this time, the data format may be different depending on whether the management target is hardware or software. For example, the lower right of FIG. 4 relates to OS management, but since it is software, the number of licenses is also subject to management. Of course, for hardware, there is no such data item because the number of licenses is meaningless.

  However, in any case, the search key ci_id must be unique and not duplicated.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration item table for normalizing the configuration items of FIG. This configuration item table has two data fields, ci_id and ci_template_id.

  ci_id is ci_id which is a search key in FIG.

  ci_template_id is a data field indicating whether the component having the corresponding ci_id is hardware / software or what data field it has.

  In this example, ci_id = 101 and 102 representing the server have the same data field (ci_template_id = 201), whereas the data field is different from ci_id = 103 representing the switching hub (ci_template_id = 202). Moreover, ci_id = 101, 102 representing a server is different from ci_id = 104 representing an OS that is software (ci_template_id = 203).

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration item template table that represents what ci_template_id in FIG. 5 is intended for.

  As described in FIG. 5, since ci_template_id = 201 is a server, the fact is recorded in the name data field, ci_template_id = 202 is a switching hub, and ci_template_id = 203 is an OS.

  Although FIG. 6 is stored in a character format so that it can be read by humans, the configuration information management program 112 actually handles these. Therefore, the Name data field may be handled as a number (= number) instead of a character code.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration item property table in the configuration management database 121.

  This table has data fields of ci_property_id representing the property of the configuration item, ci_id which is the ID of the configuration item, ci_property_type_id representing the type of the property of the configuration item, and value which is its actual value.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a configuration item property detail table related to the configuration item property ci_property_type_id used in FIG.

  The configuration item property ci_property_type_id shown in FIG. 7 is set based on the configuration item property detail table shown in FIG. For example, ci_template_id = 201 indicating a server indicates that there are data fields such as a host name, an IP address, a usage, and a purchase date.

  Therefore, based on this table, the configuration information management program 112 determines that ci_id = 101 (Main Server) has four properties: host name, IP address, usage, and purchase date. The configuration information management program 112 stores this result in the configuration item property table.

  This makes it possible to define in advance what property (= data field) the configuration item has.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a relation table in the configuration management database 121.

  The relation handled in this table includes a relation type ID, a relation name, a configuration item ID of the relation, and a configuration item ID of the relation destination.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relation template table in the configuration management database 121. The relationship template relationship_template_id handled in the relation template table of FIG. 11 is relation_type_id, which is the relation type ID, relation name name, source_ci_template_id, which is the configuration item template ID of the relation, and id_date_date, which is the relation item template id_date_date_date. , Including.

  The relationship between configuration items in FIG. 10 is based on the relationship between configuration item templates. That is, only when the configuration item templates “server” and “switch” are defined in the relationship template table, the configuration item template “server” “MainServerA” and the configuration item template “switch”, the configuration item “SW_A”. It is possible to create a relationship between

  With this relation template table, it is possible to define in advance what kind of relationship the configuration items have.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship type table in the configuration management database 121. The relationship type handled in this table is composed of a relationship_type_id that is a unique ID of the relationship type and a relationship type name name.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration item template table in the template accumulation database 123. As shown in FIG. The configuration item template ci_template_id handled in this table is a unique ID different from the configuration item template ci_template_id in the configuration management database 121. The configuration item template ci_template_id includes a system name system_name and a configuration item template name name.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration item property detail table in the template accumulation database 123. The configuration item property details ci_property_type_id handled in this table includes stored_template_id which is the ID of the configuration item template defined in the template accumulation database, its name name, the variable type data_type of the data, and the data length data_length.

  FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relation table in the template accumulation database 123. The relations handled in this table are the relation_id that is the ID of the relation, the relation_type_id that indicates the type of the relationship, the name that is the name of the relation, the source_ci_id that is the ID of the configuration item template of the relation, and the ID of the configuration item template of the relation destination It is comprised including target_ci_id which is.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of a relationship type table in the template accumulation database 123. The relation type handled in this table includes relation_type_id, which is the relation type ID, and name, which is the name of the relation type.

  FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a processing operation related to the present invention of the configuration information management program in FIG.

  In the present invention, first, the configuration information management program 112 reads the configuration item list 101 (step S1001).

  Next, the configuration information management program 112 reads the configuration item data model 102 (step S1002).

  The information read in steps S1001 and S1002 is converted into a format that can be handled by the database (step S1003). For this realization, work may be performed using a tool such as VISIO (registered trademark) of MICROSOFT or ERMaster, or a program corresponding to the configuration information management program 112 may be implemented.

  Next, each read configuration item is checked against data stored in the template accumulation database 123 to determine registration data to be read (step S1004). That is, it is confirmed whether the same configuration item template as the type of the read configuration item exists in the template accumulation database.

  If the same type of configuration item exists (step S1004: exists), the corresponding template information is acquired from the template accumulation database 123 (step S1005), and the difference from the data converted in step S1003 is displayed (step S1006). .

  If there is no configuration item of the same type (step S1004: does not exist), the configuration item read in step S1001 and step S1002 is displayed (step S1007).

  Here, an example of the display in steps S1006 and S1007 is shown. FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example of a comparison result and a registration screen between the input configuration item and the stored configuration item template. In this way, registration is possible by enabling input to a text bar or the like.

  Next, the configuration information management program 112 determines whether to change the setting of the displayed information by an operation on the display screen (step S1008).

  When changing the setting of information (step S1008: Yes), these are corrected according to the values of the input configuration information and definition information (step S1009).

  If no modification is necessary or the modification in step S1009 is completed, the configuration item is registered in the configuration management database 121 (step S1010). Also, the configuration item template is registered in the template accumulation database 123 (step S1011).

  The above steps S1004 to S1011 are repeated for each configuration item.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the configuration item template is stored in the template accumulation database 123 by processing by the configuration information management program, so that it can be used not only for the configuration item to be introduced but also for other work. The configuration item template can be used, and the configuration item can be easily and accurately managed.

  As mentioned above, the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Needless to say.

  Consider application to a configuration management system for managing configuration information.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 ... Configuration item list, 102 ... Configuration item data model, 111 ... Configuration information management system, 112 ... Configuration information management program, 121 ... Configuration management database, 123 ... Template storage database, 222 ... Configuration management database

Claims (4)

A configuration item data model including a configuration item list of configuration items and relevance of the configuration items, and a terminal that can access a template storage database, and operate on the information processing apparatus used to manage the configuration items A configuration information management program for
In the information processing apparatus,
A configuration item list reading step for reading the configuration item list corresponding to the target configuration item;
A configuration item data model reading step for reading the configuration item data model corresponding to the target configuration item;
A data format conversion step for converting the read configuration item list and the configuration item data model into a format that can be handled by a database;
A read registration data determination step for determining the registration data to be read by comparing each read configuration item with data stored in the template accumulation database;
A registration data read execution step of reading the data determined in the registration data determination step from the template accumulation database;
A configuration information management program for processing a data comparison execution step for comparing the data converted in the data format conversion step and the data read in the registration data read execution step. The configuration information management program according to claim 1,
Furthermore, the information processing apparatus causes the information processing apparatus to process a data display execution step for outputting a result of comparison in the data comparison execution step. A configuration information management system having a configuration item data model input terminal including a configuration item list of configuration items and relevance of the configuration item, and a terminal accessible to a template storage database, and used for managing the configuration item A configuration information management method for
A configuration item list reading step for reading the configuration item list corresponding to the target configuration item;
A configuration item data model reading step for reading the configuration item data model corresponding to the target configuration item;
A data format conversion step for converting the read configuration item list and the configuration item data model into a format that can be handled by a database;
A read registration data determination step for determining the registration data to be read by comparing each read configuration item with data stored in the template accumulation database;
A registration data read execution step of reading the data determined in the registration data determination step from the template accumulation database;
A configuration information management method comprising: a data comparison execution step for comparing the data converted in the data format conversion step and the data read in the registration data read execution step. In the configuration information management method according to claim 3,
And a data display execution step for outputting a result of comparison in the data comparison execution step.

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