JP2629063B2 - Display method of communication network state quantity - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication network monitoring system for monitoring a communication state of a communication network, and in particular, displays information such as a change in a state quantity related to a communication state of the communication network on a monitor. Display method.

[Prior Art] When monitoring the communication state of a communication network to control the network state, the state quantity relating to the communication state of the communication network, such as the traffic amount of the communication line and the line usage rate, is displayed on a monitor, and the operator can use the monitor. Conventionally, network control is performed according to the state. Conventionally, the state quantity is displayed using a display method using character information such as numbers and symbols, a display method using graphics, or a combination of the two methods. As for the display method, researches on the shape and size of characters, arrangement of characters, and the like have been conducted, and various devices have been tried.

FIG. 4 is a display example using character information and graphic information. 41 indicates point B and 42 indicates point C. 43 is a table of character information indicating the state quantity of the line from the point B 41 to the point C 42, and 44 is graphic information indicating that the table 43 of the character information relates to the state of the line from the point B 41 to the point C 42 (here, In this case, the arrow is used). The number of lines and the number of lines used from point B 41 to point C 42,
The line use rate and the increase rate of the number of line use are shown in Table 43 using character information. The operator can see 41, 42
From Tables 43 and 44, it is read that Table 43 is information relating to the line from point B 41 to point C 42, and the state quantity is read from the character information in Table 43 to grasp the state of the communication network.

FIG. 5 is a display example using character information and color information. The vertical axis 51 in the table indicates the origin of the line, and the horizontal axis 52 in the table indicates the entrance of the line. Here, if there is any abnormality in the line, a specific color is displayed together with the character information in an area where the character information is displayed as information indicating the abnormality. The frame 53 is character information indicating the state quantity of the line from the point A to the point B. If there is an abnormality in the line state, for example, if the line usage rate exceeds a certain value, it is dangerous. If the value exceeds a certain value, the area is colored red. Reference numeral 54 denotes a message about the state of the line displayed in the frame 53. Specifically, information indicating where the operator should look at the state between which point next is displayed here.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the display examples of FIGS. 4 and 5, the operator reads the state quantity from the character information in order to grasp the state of the communication network from the displayed information. Therefore, it is difficult to grasp the states by reading the state quantities at a glance. Therefore, there is a problem that the work load of the operator is large and there is a risk of inducing a state grasp error.

In addition, there is a method of presenting information in stages in order to avoid increasing the amount of the same type of information presented at one time, but when it takes time to operate, it is necessary to take correspondence between different points Also, especially in the case of urgency, the time required for this becomes a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a state quantity of a communication network such that when a state quantity is displayed and an operator grasps the state from the display and controls the communication network, the operator can read the necessary state quantity in a shorter time. Is to provide a display method.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, a method for displaying a state quantity of a communication network according to the present invention uses a line capacity of a communication network to be detected, a display parameter of graphic information to be displayed, and color information. Correspondence to display parameters, Correspondence of calculation result of line usage rate of communication network to be detected and display parameter of graphic information to be displayed, Calculation result of line usage rate increase of communication network to be detected and line Correspondence tables each storing the correspondence between the color information and the display parameter to be displayed in association with the usage rate are prepared, and the display parameters corresponding to each state amount are specified based on the correspondence table, and the specified The graphic information and the color information are displayed according to the display parameters.

[Operation] Since the state quantity of the communication network and the state of its change, which have been displayed by character information such as numbers and symbols, are displayed by using graphic information and color information having a quantitative meaning, A plurality of types of information are displayed at one place at a time.

Therefore, the operator can read a plurality of types of state quantities of the communication network at a glance, and the number of errors due to misreading of numbers is reduced, so that the operator's work load can be greatly reduced.

Example Next, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a communication system showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a display format storage unit 15,
FIG. 3 is a view showing a display example of the display device 16.

The communication system of the present embodiment includes a communication network 11, a network interface 12, a communication network state quantity detection unit 13, a communication network state display processing unit 14, a display format storage unit 15, a display device 16, an input device It is composed of 17.

The communication network 11 is, for example, a telephone network, a data line, a dedicated line network, or the like. The network interface 12 picks up a signal from the communication network 11 and sends the signal to the communication network state quantity detection unit 13.
The signal from 13 is sent to the communication network 11. The communication network state quantity detector 13 converts a signal sent from the network interface 12 into a state quantity, and outputs a signal related to the state quantity to the communication network state display processor 14.
Send to The display format storage unit 15 stores a display format (FIG. 2) in which a line thickness (graphic information) and a color (color information) for displaying the line are associated with a state quantity of a line between two points. Have been. That is, in FIG. 2, the column of 21 is the number of lines between two points, the column of 22 is the thickness of the line associated with the number of lines, 23
Column is line display color, 24 column is line usage rate, 25 column is multiplying factor of line thickness corresponding to the number of lines, 26 column is increase rate of line usage, 27 column is Colors associated with the rate of increase in the number of lines used.
0/5 to 5/5 are divided according to the stages of 1 to 6, respectively. First, the line thickness of the columns 22 and 25 will be described. In this example, the line is displayed thicker as the number of times increases and the line usage rate increases.
For 70000 lines, the line thickness indicating the number of lines between two points is 1
6mm, if the line usage rate is 50%, the line thickness is 1
6mm x 0.5 is 8mm. Next, the colors (R value, G value, B value) in column 23 and column 27 will be described. The meanings of the numbers in parentheses are R value (red amount), G value (green amount) and B value.
For example, if the number of lines is 70000 lines, the maximum R value is 5/6, the maximum G value is 0/6, the maximum G value is 0/5, and the maximum B value is 0/5. In step 1, (R, G, B) is (6,1,
1), ie, this is the color that represents the maximum amount of R value, ie, only red. The communication network state display processing unit 14 searches the display format storage unit 15 with the state amount from the communication network state amount detection unit 13,
The display format obtained from the search result is sent to the display device 16.
The display device 16 (output device) is a CRT color display or a color liquid crystal display.
The graphic information and the color information are displayed according to the information from. The input device 17 is a keyboard or a switch, and an operator performs an operation for controlling the communication network 11 from the state quantity displayed on the display device 16.

 Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

Here, among the state quantities of the communication lines related to the line from point A to point B, the number of lines is 85,000 lines and the current
It is assumed that there are 4000 lines, and the rate of increase in the number of lines used is 12%. These state quantity signals are sent to the communication network state quantity detection unit 13.
And the communication network state quantity detection unit 13 sends the signal to the communication network state display processing unit 14. The communication network state display processing unit 14 searches the display format storage unit 15 using the signal. As a result, the number of lines is in the range of 80,000 to 100,000, the thickness of the graphic information for displaying the number of lines is 18 mm, the color indicating the number of lines is (6,1,1), and the line usage rate is red. The graphic information indicating the line usage rate is 18 mm × 0.7 with a thickness of 12.6 mm, and its color is in the range of 5 to 15% (1, 1). Four,
1) Yes, you can get information about medium green. On the display device 16, graphic information and color information are displayed between the point A and the point B according to the information from the communication network state quantity detector 13, as shown in FIG. Here, 31 indicates point A, and 32 indicates point B. Reference numeral 33 denotes graphic information (here, the thickness of the line) indicating the number of lines from the point A 31 to the point B 32. Numeral 34 denotes graphic information (here, the line thickness) indicating the line usage rate from the point A 31 to the point B 32 and color information indicating the rate of increase in the number of lines used given to the graphic information. Graphic information indicating the number
The display starts from the center of 33 and spreads out on both sides.

In this way, the point A 31 to the point B 32
And the rate of increase in the number of lines used from point A 31 to point B 32 by the pair 34 of the graphic information and the color information given to the graphic information, as the state quantities at that time. Is displayed. The operator grasps the state of the system by looking at the state quantity of the communication network displayed on the display device 16 and performs a control operation adapted to the state from the input device 17, and the signal input from the input device 17 is the state of the communication network. Display processing unit 14
Is transmitted from the communication network state display processing unit 14 to the network interface 12 through the communication network state quantity detection unit 13, and then transmitted from the network interface 12 to the communication network 11.

In the present embodiment, the state quantity of the communication network is displayed by a combination of the graphic information and the color information, and character information such as numerical information is not used, but if necessary, character information can be displayed as before, It seems to be more effective if used in combination with graphic information and color information.

Although a color display is used as an output device, a color display such as a monochrome display or a plasma display that can only be displayed in one hue (hue) can be used by changing the gradation of light and shade.
When a printer is used as the output device, the density of a pattern may be used as graphic information or color information.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the present invention displays two or more types of information at a time by displaying the state quantity of the communication network using graphic information and color information having a quantitative meaning. This makes it possible for the operator to read multiple types of state quantities of the communication network at a glance, reduces errors due to misreading of numbers, greatly reduces the operator's work load, and further enhances operational efficiency. There is an effect that the improvement of can be expected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a communication system showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of contents of a display format storage unit 15,
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of the display device 16, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a conventional display example using character information and graphic information, and FIG.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a conventional display example using character information and color information. 11 communication network 12 network interface 13 communication network state quantity detection unit 14 communication network state display processing unit 15 display format storage unit 16 display device 17 input device 21 number of lines Column that divides the range of the line 22… the column of thickness information according to the range of the number of lines 23… the column of color information that displays lines 24… the column that divides the range of the line usage rate 25… the number of lines A column for multiplying the magnification by the corresponding thickness information 26 A column for delimiting the range of the rate of increase in the number of lines used 27 A column for displaying color information according to the rate of increase in the number of lines used 31 32 32 Point name 33 ... Graphic information indicating the number of communication lines from point A 31 to point B 32 34... Graphic information indicating the usage rate of communication lines from point A 31 to point B 32 and color information indicating the rate of increase in the number of uses 41 , 42... Point name 43... Table 44 showing the amount of state of the communication network indicates that table 43 relates to a communication line from point B 41 to point C 42. Graphic information 51: Vertical axis of the table, indicating the outgoing point of the line 52: Horizontal axis of the table, indicating the incoming point of the line 53: Indicates the state quantity of the line from point A to point B Character information and color information 54 …… A message about the state of the line from point A to point B

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A method for displaying a state quantity of a communication network, comprising detecting a state quantity related to a communication state in a communication network, calculating a change in the detected state quantity, and displaying the calculation result on an output device. Correspondence between the line capacity of the communication network to be displayed, the display parameter of the graphic information to be displayed and the display parameter of the color information, the correspondence between the calculation result of the line utilization rate of the communication network to be detected and the display parameter of the graphic information to be displayed, Prepare a correspondence table that stores the correspondence between the calculation result of the increase rate of the line usage rate of the communication network to be detected and the display parameter of the color information to be displayed in association with the line usage rate. A communication network state wherein corresponding display parameters are specified based on the correspondence table, and graphic information and color information are displayed according to the specified display parameters. Display method of the amount.