JP2943745B2 - Network management information acquisition system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a network management information acquisition system for acquiring network management information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of network management information acquisition apparatus uses a MIB (Management
ent Information Base (GUI) for acquiring objects
User Interface).

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a conventional network management information acquisition device.

[0004] The network management information is stored in the MIB information storage means 205 of the managed node 209.

[0005] The management manager 210 is an SNMP (RF)
A request for acquiring network management information is sent to the managed node 209 using a protocol compliant with C1157). The SNMP analysis unit 207 of the management target node 209 interprets the above protocol and requests the MIB information access unit 206 to retrieve the MIB information from the MIB information storage 205. The SNMP analysis unit 207 receives the extracted MIB information via the MIB access unit 206, and transfers it to the management manager 210 according to the above protocol.

On the other hand, the management manager 210 has a graphical user interface (GUI) 202.
The operator operates the interface 202 using the input / output unit 201 so as to obtain desired MIB information. GUI operation analysis means 203
Interprets an operation performed on the interface 202 and transfers an acquisition request to the SNMP analysis unit 204.
The SNMP analysis unit 204 converts the above request into a protocol conforming to SNMP and sends it to the managed node 209.

[0007]

A first problem is that it is necessary to create a graphical user interface in the management manager for each type of managed node.

The reason is that figures to be displayed on the graphical user interface, arrangements and operations thereof are different for each type of managed node.

An object of the present invention is to reduce the labor for creating an interface for each managed node by automatically generating a graphical user interface in a network management manager and to change the type of a managed node. An object of the present invention is to provide a network management information acquisition system that does not require a new graphical user interface on the network management manager side.

[0010]

According to the present invention, there is provided a network management information acquiring system comprising: a managed node having a graphical user interface configuration information holding unit; and an access unit for accessing the graphical user interface configuration information; A management manager having user interface analysis means and graphical user interface display means;

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1 showing an embodiment of the present invention, an input / output unit 106 receives display data from a GUI display unit 103 and transmits an input operation to an input / output analysis unit 105. GUI configuration analysis means 102 is SNMP
GUI configuration information is received from the analysis unit 104, and the display content is transmitted to the GUI display unit 103.

In the managed node 112, the MIB information access unit 10 receives a request from the SNMP analysis unit 109.
8 retrieves the MIB information from the MIB information holding unit 107. Similarly, at the request of the SNMP analysis means 109,
The GUI configuration information access unit 110 extracts the GUI configuration information from the GUI configuration information holding unit 111.

In FIG. 1, there is one managed node 112, but there may be more than one. Furthermore, protocols other than SNMP can be used.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The GUI configuration analysis unit 102 requests the SNMP analysis unit 104 to retrieve the GUI configuration information held by the managed node 112. The SNMP analysis unit 104 sends an acquisition request to the managed node 107 using a protocol based on SNMP (RFC1157).

The managed node 107 that has received the acquisition request
SNMP analysis means 109 analyzes the acquisition request and
If it is a configuration information acquisition request, it requests the GUI configuration information access unit 110 to extract the GUI configuration information from the GUI configuration information holding unit.

The extracted GUI configuration information is sent by the SNMP analyzing means 109 to the management manager 101 in accordance with the SNMP protocol. SNMP analysis means 104
Determines that the response is to the GUI configuration information acquisition request, and transmits the response to the GUI analysis unit 102. GUI analysis means 102 analyzes the GUI configuration information, and
The content to be displayed as the user interface is G
The information is transmitted to the UI display means 103. The GUI display means 103 displays the GUI display by the input / output means 106. Further, the GUI analysis means 102 extracts analysis information of the operation on the GUI from the GUI configuration information, and
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With the above operation, the management manager 101 displays the GUI display through the input / output means 106.
The operation input through the input / output unit 106 can be analyzed by the input / output analysis unit 105.

The operator of the management manager 101 can obtain MIB information of the managed node 107 by inputting according to the GUI display.

The input / output means 106 transmits the input information to the input / output analysis means 105. The input / output analysis means 105 is G
The input information is interpreted based on the analysis information obtained from the UI configuration analysis unit 102. As a result of interpretation, managed node 1
12 MIB information acquisition operation, the acquisition request is sent to SNM.
Notify the P analysis means 104. The SNMP analyzing unit 104 converts the request according to the SNMP, and
To send to.

The SNMP analysis means 109 of the managed node 112 receiving the request interprets the request and, if the request is a MIB information acquisition request, requests the MIB information access means 108 to acquire MIB information. The MIB information access unit 108 acquires the MIB information from the MIB information holding unit 107 and transmits it to the SNMP analysis unit 109. The SNMP analysis unit 109 sends the MIB information to the management manager 101 according to the SNMP protocol.

If the SNMP analysis means 104 of the management manager 101 determines that the response is to the MIB information acquisition request, the response is transmitted to the input / output analysis means 105 with the MIB information. The input / output analysis unit 105 is a GUI configuration analysis unit 10
The information is interpreted based on the analysis information obtained from step 2 and displayed through the input / output unit 106.

[0024]

An advantage of the present invention is that it is not necessary to provide the management manager with a graphical user interface for each type of management node.

The reason is that the managed node holds GUI configuration information, and the management manager obtains the GUI configuration information and automatically generates a graphical user interface.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 management manager 102 GUI configuration analysis means 103 GUI display means 104 SNMP analysis means 105 input / output analysis means 106 input / output means 107 MIB information holding means 108 MIB information access means 109 SNMP analysis means 110 GUI configuration information access means 111 GUI configuration information storage means

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A management target node and a management manager
Network management information acquisition system composed of
The management target node includes management information holding means for holding management information, access means for acquiring the management information from the holding means in response to a request from a network management protocol analysis means, and graphical user interface configuration information. a configuration storage unit for holding, the network management protocol in response to a request from the analyzing means e Bei a graphical user interface configuration information access means for acquiring the configuration information from the configuration storage unit, the management manager, protocol analysis means A graphical user interface configuration request to the GUI, interprets the obtained configuration information, and transmits it to the input / output means and the graphical user interface display means. Information analyzing means, display means for transmitting graphical user interface display information obtained from the configuration information analyzing means to the input / output means, and displaying the graphical user interface; and displaying display information from the display means. Input / output means for transmitting an input to the input / output analysis means, input / output analysis means for analyzing an input from the input / output means based on input interpretation information obtained from the configuration information analysis means, the output from the output analyzing means into a desired protocol, or network, characterized in that a protocol analyzing means for inverse transforming
Management information acquisition system .