JP3024646B1 - Information retrieval device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention searches and displays information related to a monitoring target device by a simple operation. SOLUTION: An alarm generation database 51 stores data capable of identifying all alarm items displayed on a display device 3 and searching for alarm generation information from alarm recovery information. For example, an alarm is notified from the monitoring target device to the information processing unit 21 via the information receiving device 1, and an alarm item is displayed on the display device 3 by the information display unit 22. When an alarm item restored at a certain time is specified from the input device 4 and selected using a pull-down menu or the like displayed by right-clicking a mouse, information on the same alarm generated retroactively is retrieved and displayed. The displayed content is the same alarm type as the alarm item specified by the input device 4 and alarm generation information for the same device type. From these information, the period during which an alarm has been generated for the specified alarm item can be specified.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an information retrieval apparatus in a monitoring system that collects and displays alarm information, status information, and numerical information of a monitoring target device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional information retrieval method of this type stores information obtained in time series in chronological order,
The operator realizes the information search while checking manually.

[0003]

However, in this prior art, a search is performed focusing on the same item, but the function of searching for other information related to the selected information is not considered at all. There are the following problems. The first problem is that it does not have a function of searching for the same alarm restoration information from the alarm occurrence information displayed on the display device and searching for the same alarm occurrence information from the alarm restoration information. is there. Also,
The second problem is that it does not have a function of easily judging from the alarm occurrence information displayed on the display device whether or not the alarm is caused by the alarm of the opposite station. Further, the third problem is that the system does not have a function of searching for the state change of the same state information from the state information displayed on the display device.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an information search device capable of automatically displaying information related to information displayed on a display device by a simple operation.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information retrieval apparatus for a monitoring system which collects and displays alarm information, status information, and numerical information of a monitoring target apparatus. A database capable of identifying all displayed items and providing a search on the time axis for items having relevance to the items specified by the operator among the displayed items is provided.
Displaying the searched item; and displaying the time,
Alarm type, device type and alarm generation / recovery
Screen, where the operator responds to
When an alarm occurrence search is instructed, it is stored in the database.
The same alarm type and equipment as the
An information search focused on the location type is performed, and the recovered
Displaying information on which the report information has been generated . An information retrieval apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention is an information retrieval apparatus in a monitoring system that collects and displays alarm information, status information, and numerical information of a monitoring target device. It is possible to identify an input device for inputting and all items displayed on the display device for each of the information, and to associate the items among the displayed items with items designated by the operator from the input device. A database for searching for items having characteristics on a time axis, information display means for controlling the display device, input device processing means for activating the database according to an instruction input from the input device, and information from the information receiving device. the information displayed is composed of an information processing apparatus comprising a data processing means for delivering to the means, the retrieved results and be displayed on the display device , The display is time, alarm
Jar consisting of type, device type and alarm occurrence / recovery
This is a null screen.
When an occurrence search is instructed, it is stored in the database.
The same alarm type and device type as the restored alarm
Information search is performed with focus on the type of alarm, and the restored alarm information is restored.
Displaying the information on which the information has been generated .
Further, in a preferred embodiment of the information search device of the present invention, the display is a journal screen including time, alarm type, device type and alarm occurrence / recovery. When you instruct
An information search is performed by paying attention to the same alarm type and device type as the generated alarm correspondence stored in the database, and information on which the generated alarm information has been restored is displayed. Further, in a preferred embodiment of the information retrieval device of the present invention, the display is a journal screen including time, alarm type, device type, own station / opposite station, and alarm generation / recovery. When instructing the opposite station search for the generated reception error, an information search is performed by focusing on a correspondence table between the own station alarm and the opposite station alarm stored in the database, and the information of the opposite station causing the reception error is searched. It is characterized by displaying information corresponding to a transmission error. Further, in a preferred embodiment of the information search device of the present invention, the display is a journal screen including a time, a device type, before a status change and after a status change (status type). When instructed, an information search focusing on the same state type and device type as the generated state change correspondence stored in the database is performed, and information of the same device as the generated state change is changed in the database. Is displayed. Further, in a preferred embodiment of the information search device of the present invention, the instruction by the operator is performed by a selection using a pull-down menu or an icon of the display device.

[0005]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Referring to FIG. 1, a first embodiment of the present invention is an information receiving apparatus for receiving information from a monitoring target, an information processing apparatus operated by program control, a display apparatus such as a display apparatus, and an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse. It comprises a device 4 and an information storage device 5 such as a hard disk or various removable disks. Further, the information processing device 2 includes an information processing unit 21, an information display unit 22, and an input device processing unit 23.

[0006] The information processing means 21 receives information from the information receiving apparatus 1 which collects various information of each apparatus to be monitored, and transfers the information to the information display means 22. Information display means 22 is based on information received from information processing means 21,
The received information is displayed on the display device 3.

On the other hand, when an operation is performed using the input device 4 to search the alarm recovery information displayed on the display device 3 for alarm occurrence information of the same alarm in the past, the input device processing means 23 outputs an alarm occurrence database. The operation content is notified to 51. The alarm generation database 51 identifies the type of alarm based on the information specified by the input device 4, and searches the information storage device 5 by focusing on the range of the stored data that goes back in the past. By notifying the information display means 22 of the search result, the alarm generation database 51 displays information on the operation performed on the input device 4 on the display device 3.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1 and the screen transition diagram of FIG.

[0009] Now, on the journal screen displaying the alarm items of the monitoring target devices displayed on the display device 3, data composed of time information, alarm type information, device type information and occurrence / recovery information are arranged in chronological order. , Data 1001 to data 1007 are displayed (FIG. 2)
A1). In this state, in FIG.
When the latest information of "8" is collected at 12:30 and the information indicating the alarm type A, the device type a, and the alarm recovery is displayed, the data 1008 is operated by operating the mouse of the input device 4.
Is selected and right-clicked, an alarm occurrence search is displayed on the pull-down menu of the display device 3 (A2 in FIG. 2).

When an item of “alarm occurrence search” is selected from the items displayed in the pull-down menu of the display device 3 using the mouse of the input device 4, the input device processing means 2
3 transmits the information selected by the input device 4 to the alarm generation database 51, and searches for information by focusing on the same alarm type and device type as the data 1008 stored in the alarm generation database 51. As a result, it is displayed on the display device 3 via the information display means 22 that the alarm information restored in the data 1008 occurred at 11:20, which is one hour and ten minutes earlier in the data 1001 ( A3 in FIG. 2).

Here, when there is no information of the alarm type A and the device type a in the same window, the corresponding information is displayed in another window (B2 in FIG. 3). When there is no information that matches the condition, the fact that there is no information that matches the search condition is displayed on the display device 3 (C2 in FIG. 4).

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. Referring to FIG. 5, this embodiment is different in that an alarm recovery database 151 is provided as a database.

Assume that information from data 2001 to data 2006 is displayed on the display device 103 by the processing of the information display means 122. In this state, information from data 2001 to data 2006 is arranged in the order of the time of the event that occurred (D1 in FIG. 6).
In this state, when the latest information of “Data 2007” is collected at 13:00 and the information of the alarm type B, the device type b, and the alarm occurrence is displayed, the line of the data 2007 is operated by the mouse operation of the input device 104. Is selected and right-clicked, an alarm recovery search is displayed on the pull-down menu of the display device 103 (D2 in FIG. 6).

When an item of “alarm recovery search” is selected from the items displayed in the pull-down menu of the display device 103 using the mouse of the input device 104, the input device processing means 123 sends the input device to the alarm recovery database 151. The information selected in 104 is transmitted, and the information is searched by focusing on the same alarm type and device type as the data 2007 stored in the alarm recovery database 151. According to this result, the display device 1 via the information display unit 122 indicates that the alarm information generated in the data 2007 has been restored to 11:00 two hours ago in the data 2001.
03 (D3 in FIG. 6).

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. Referring to FIG. 7, this embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that an opposite station database 251 is provided as a database.

Now, it is assumed that, for example, information from data 3001 to data 3008 is displayed on the display device 203 by the processing of the information display means 222. In this state, the information from the data 3001 to the data 3008 is arranged in order of the time of the event that occurred (E1 in FIG. 8).
In this state, the row of the data 3002 is selected by operating the mouse of the input device 204 and right-clicked to display the display device 2.
The opposite station search is displayed in the 03 pull-down menu (E2 in FIG. 8).

When an item of “opposite station search” is selected from the items displayed on the pull-down menu of the display device 203 using the mouse of the input device 204, the input device processing means 223 transfers the input device to the opposing station database 251. 2
The information selected in step 04 is transmitted, and based on the contents of the correspondence table between the own station alarm and the opposite station alarm stored in the opposite station database 251, the search is performed by focusing on the item related to the own station reception error of the data 3002. The transmission error of the opposite station information is detected as a search result (step E in FIG. 8).
3). As a result, the fact that the alarm information generated in the data 3002 was simultaneously generated in the data 3001 is displayed on the display device 203 via the information display means 222 (E4 in FIG. 8). It can be understood that the reception error of the own station is caused by the transmission error of the opposite station generated in the data 2001.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. Referring to FIG. 9, the present embodiment is different in that a state change database 351 is provided as a database.

Assume that information from data 4001 to data 4008 is displayed on the information display device 303 by the processing of the information display means 322. In this state, the information from the data 4001 to the data 4008 is arranged in order of the time of the event that occurred (F in FIG. 10).
1). In this state, when a row of the data 4008 is selected by operating the mouse of the input device 304 and right-clicked, a state change search is displayed on a pull-down menu of the display device 303 (F2 in FIG. 10).

When an item of “state change search” is selected from the items displayed on the pull-down menu of the display device 303 using the mouse of the input device 304, the input device processing means 323 transfers the input device to the state change database 351. The information selected in 304 is transmitted, and the information is searched by focusing on the same state type and device type as the data 4008 stored in the state change database 351. According to this result, the information of the same device c as the state change generated in the data 4008 is changed in the data 4001 by the information display unit 322 to the display device 3.
03 (F3 in FIG. 10), it can be seen that the state change generated in the data 4008 was changed in the data 4001.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the four examples, the present invention is not limited to only these. That is, in the above embodiment,
Although the case of searching for a past range from the selected information has been described, it is also possible to search for a future range.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which one piece of information is searched from the selected information. However, a plurality of pieces of information can be searched.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which the related station alarm is searched from the own station alarm. However, the own station alarm can be searched from the opposite station alarm.

[0024]

The effect of the present invention is as follows. The information displayed on the display device is selected, and an operation for searching is performed.
The point is that information related to the displayed information can be searched and displayed. As a result, the operator
It can provide useful information. The reason is that the information from the input device processing means is notified to the database, and the information display means displays the corresponding information on the display device by searching for the information by focusing on the above-mentioned relevance.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a screen transition diagram in the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is another screen transition diagram in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is another screen transition diagram in the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a screen transition diagram in the second embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a screen transition diagram in the third embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a screen transition diagram in the fourth embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 101, 201, 301 Information receiving device 2, 102, 202, 302 Information processing device 3, 103, 203, 303 Display device 4, 104, 204, 304 Input device 5, 105, 205, 305 Information storage device 21, 121, 221, 321 Information processing means 22, 122, 222, 322 Information display means 23, 123, 223, 323 Input device processing means 51 Alarm generation database 151 Alarm recovery database 251 Opponent station database 351 State change database

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Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. An information search device in a monitoring system that collects and displays alarm information, status information, and numerical information of a monitoring target device, wherein it is possible to identify all items displayed for each of the information. provided a database capable of searching an item having a relationship with the designated entry by the operator of the displayed items on a time axis, and displaying the retrieved item, the display, the time, Alarm type, device type and alarm generation
/ Recovery journal screen, and the operator
When an alarm occurrence search for an old alarm is instructed, the data
Same as the restored alarm response stored in the database
Information search focusing on alarm type and device type
Display the information on which the restored alarm information was generated.
Information retrieval apparatus comprising: the Rukoto, the. 2. An information search device in a monitoring system for collecting and displaying alarm information, status information and numerical information of a monitored device, a display device for performing the display, an input device for an operator to input, and It is possible to identify all items displayed on the display device for each information, and on the time axis, items having a relationship with the items specified from the input device by the operator among the displayed items. A database to be searched; information display means for controlling the display device; input device processing means for activating the database in accordance with an instruction input from the input device; and information processing for transferring information from the information receiving device to the information display means. And an information processing device comprising:
And the display shows time, alarm type, device type and alarm occurrence.
/ Recovery journal screen, and the operator
And instructs the alarm search for the alarm that the former was, the de
Same as the restored alarm response stored in the database
Information search focusing on alarm type and device type
Display the information on which the restored alarm information was generated.
Information retrieval apparatus comprising: the Rukoto, the. 3. The display is a journal screen including a time, an alarm type, a device type, and an alarm occurrence / recovery. When an operator instructs an alarm recovery search for the generated alarm, the display is stored in the database. 3. An information search which focuses on the same alarm type and device type as the corresponding alarm is generated, and the information on which the generated alarm information is restored is displayed. Information retrieval device. 4. The display is a journal screen comprising time, alarm type, device type, own station / opposite station, and alarm generation / recovery, and the operator instructs an opposing station search for a received error that has occurred. Then, an information search focusing on the correspondence table between the own station alarm and the opposite station alarm stored in the database is performed, and information on the transmission error of the opposite station that caused the reception error is displayed. The information retrieval device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein 5. The display is a journal screen including a time, a device type, a status before and after a status change (status type), and is stored in the database when an operator instructs a status change search. The information search is performed by focusing on the same state type and device type as the generated state change correspondence, and information indicating that the information of the same device as the generated state change has changed in the database is displayed. The information retrieval device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein Wherein indication by the operator, the information retrieval apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that performing the selection using a pull-down menu or icon, the display device.