JP3466131B2 - File update monitoring system and its recording medium - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a file update monitoring system and a recording medium for monitoring a file update status of an exchange or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Normally, the version of software (file) installed in a switch is updated regularly (for example, once every six months). Conventionally, this update work (hereinafter referred to as file update work) and its monitoring are performed using a system as shown in FIG.
In this figure, 50-1, 50-2, ..., 50-m
Is a file update workstation (hereinafter referred to as FWS
That is, a scenario in which a command for updating a file is described according to a preset procedure is stored. Then, each FWS is assigned with a pre-assigned exchange 51-1, ... According to each scenario.
, 51-n are sequentially issued to update the file. In addition, according to the order of issuing commands described in this scenario,
A procedure manual number and a comment explaining the contents of each command are added.

Reference numeral 52 is an aggregator, which is a plurality of exchanges 51
Are connected, and FWS 50-1, 50-2, ..., 50-
According to the instruction from m, each exchange 51-1, ..., 51
-Updates the file installed in n. An exchange maintenance support system (hereinafter referred to as EOS) 53 has an interface function between each FWS 50-1, 50-2, ..., 50-m and the aggregation device 52. Further, the FWSs 50-1, 50-2, ..., 50-m are respectively connected to the network 54, and the aggregation device 52 and the EOS 53 are respectively connected to the network 55. Then, the network 54 and the network 55
Are interconnected by a router 56.

In the system of FIG. 6, each FWS 50-
1, 50-2, ..., 50-m transmit a command for file update to the exchanges that are assigned in advance via the EOS 53 and the aggregation device 52 according to each scenario. Then, each exchange that has received the command from the FWS performs processing according to the command, and sends various commands corresponding to the processing result to the F command.
Send to WS. This message includes a response message to the command transmitted by the FWS, an autonomous message for reporting an abnormality of the own device detected by the exchange itself, and the like.

Each FWS sends a message each time a command is sent from the exchange, and the contents of the message to be responded to by the exchange from the command sent to the exchange (registered in the scenario in advance). If the result is that no abnormality is found as a result, the next command described in the scenario is issued to the exchange. If any abnormality is found, the file update work is suspended. Furthermore, each FWS 50 records the command sent to the exchange and the message sent from the exchange as a log file for each exchange, and
The execution status of the file update work is displayed on the display based on the contents of the log file.

Here, FIG. 7 shows an example of the contents of a log file relating to a certain exchange. In this figure, (a) is information designating a color indicating the state of the exchange during file update work. As a result, the status of each exchange is represented by color on the display of each FWS. (I) is the procedure number included in the scenario. (U) is a comment included in the scenario or a message sent from the exchange. As shown in this figure, in the log file, the state of the exchange during the file updating work is recorded line by line.

[0007]

By the way, in the conventional file updating work, one worker is assigned to each FWS, and the file update status of each exchange is confirmed on the display of the FWS in which each worker is placed. Was there. Further, since the file update work is usually performed by one FWS to 30 to 40 exchanges, the worker monitors the file update work performed by the FWS other than the FWS in charge of him / herself. It was difficult to do. Therefore, conventionally,
It was not possible to grasp the status of file update work by each FWS collectively. In addition, each FWS has another F
Since there is no function to aggregate WS logs, all F
It was difficult to comprehensively manage the contents of the file update work performed by WS.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and it is possible to collectively monitor the file update work performed by each FWS and record the file update work status collectively. An object of the present invention is to provide a file update monitoring system and a recording medium therefor.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there are provided a plurality of exchanges for exchanging communication lines in accordance with installed files, and a predetermined exchange among the plurality of exchanges. The installed files are updated via the network, and the log information related to the work status of the file update is transmitted from each of the plurality of file updating devices that record each switching device and each of the plurality of file updating devices through the network. A file update monitoring system comprising: a file update monitoring device that collectively records the received log information in one log file.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the file update monitoring system according to the first aspect, each of the plurality of file update devices updates the log information every time new log information is recorded. To the log information transmitted at that time, at least the information for identifying its own file update device and the information for identifying the log information exchange are added, and the file update monitoring device sends log information from the file update device. Each time it receives the log information,
It is characterized in that a monitor screen is created based on the information given by each file updating device to show the status of the file updating work performed by the plurality of file updating devices.

According to a third aspect of the invention, in the file update monitoring system according to the second aspect, there is provided a monitor screen display device for displaying a monitor screen created by the file update monitor device via a network. It is characterized by that.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a computer-readable record recording a monitoring program for monitoring a file update status when a file installed in each of a plurality of exchanges is updated by a plurality of file update devices. A medium is characterized in that a monitoring program having a step of collectively recording, in a single log file, log information relating to the file update work status transmitted from each of the plurality of file updating devices is recorded. .

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the computer-readable recording medium according to the fourth aspect, the monitoring program recorded on the recording medium is further transmitted from each of the plurality of file updating devices. It is characterized by including a step of creating a monitoring screen showing a file update work status being performed by the plurality of file update devices based on the log information.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of a file update monitoring system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of a file update monitoring system in this embodiment. In this figure, the same components as those in FIG. 6 are designated by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof will be omitted. In FIG. 1, 1-1 to 1-m are networks 5.
4 is an FWS (file updating device), which has the same function as the FWSs 50-1 to 50-m in FIG. 6 and updates files in the exchanges 51-1 to 51-n.
The FWSs 1-1 to 1-m also have a function (hereinafter, referred to as a log transmission function) of transmitting the log information recorded by each to a representative FWS 2 (file update monitoring device) described later. This function is executed according to the instruction of the representative FWS2, monitors the size of the log file of each exchange, and when there is a change in the file size, that is, when log information is newly accumulated, the specified information is added to the log information. (To be described later) is added and transmitted to the representative FWS 2.

The representative FWS 2 is connected to the network 54, has the same functions as the FWSs 50-1 to 50-m shown in FIG. 6, and has a log receiving function and a monitoring screen creating function. The log receiving function is FWS1-1-1
It is a function of recording each log information transmitted from -m in one log file (hereinafter referred to as an integrated log file). The monitoring screen creation function is a function to create a monitoring screen for displaying the status of the file update work performed by the FWSs 1-1 to 1-m based on the log information transmitted from each FWS. is there.

A display computer (monitor screen display device) 3 is connected to the network 4, and is also connected to the network 54 via the router 5 and the gateway 6. Then, it has a monitoring screen display function for displaying the monitoring screen created by the monitoring screen creating function of the representative FWS 2. Reference numeral 7 is also a display computer having a monitoring screen display function similar to that of the display computer 3. The display computer 7 is connected to the network 8 and further connected to the network 55 via the router 9. Further, although 10 is also a display computer, it is a portable terminal composed of a laptop personal computer and a mobile phone, and can be connected to the network 8.

The file update monitoring system shown in FIG. 1 has a log transmission function of FWS1-1 to 1-m and a representative F.
The log receiving function of WS2 realizes the function of collectively recording the file update status of each exchange in the integrated log file, and also the function of creating the monitoring screen of the representative FWS2 and the monitoring of the display computers 3, 7, 10 The screen display function realizes a function of comprehensively monitoring the file update work performed by each FWS.

Next, the operation of the above-mentioned file update monitoring system will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 2 shows a sequence diagram when the representative FWS 2 creates an integrated log file. In addition, FIG. 3 shows each FWS
It is a figure which shows an example of the content of the log information transmitted from a representative FWS2. Further, FIG. 4 shows a sequence diagram when the representative FWS 2 monitors the status of file updating work performed by the FWS 1-1 to 1-m in the display computers 3, 7, and 10. Further, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the contents of the monitoring screen which is displayed on the display computers 3, 7 and 10 and which shows the file update status of each exchange.

First, the processing when the representative FWS 2 creates an integrated log file will be described with reference to FIG. First, in the representative FWS 2, a switchboard list for file updating is created in advance (a). This switch list is
The ID number and host name of each FWS are recorded in association with the ID number and file update start time of the exchange in charge of the file update work by each FWS. This exchange list is for each FWS1-1 ~ 1
It is also stored in advance in -m.

Next, when the operator instructs the representative FWS 2 to create an integrated log file (A), the representative FWS 2 executes the log receiving function (C). As a result, the representative FWS 2 instructs each FWS to execute the log transmission function (d) and stores the log information in the integrated log file each time the log information is transmitted from each FWS.

On the other hand, each FWS 1-1 to 1-m is a representative F
When receiving an instruction to start execution of the log transmission function from WS2, first, referring to a list of exchanges stored in advance, the own FW is referred to.
The S recognizes the exchange that needs to perform the log information transmission process to the representative FWS 2. Then, by recognizing the log file names related to these exchanges and constantly monitoring the size of the log file, if there is a change in the file size (that is, when log information is newly stored), the process described below Execute in real time and in line units of the log file.

First, each FWS recognizes the contents of the newly accumulated log information, and based on the previously stored log transmission determination information, the newly accumulated log information is represented by the representative FWS2.
Determine whether to send to. Here, the log transmission determination information is a record of a procedure manual number and a message to be transmitted to the representative FWS 2. Then, when the newly accumulated log information includes a procedure manual number or a message to be transmitted to the representative FWS 2, the log information is added with predetermined information and transmitted to the representative FWS 2 (e).

The contents of the log information transmitted from each FWS to the representative FWS 2 will be described with reference to FIG. For example, when log information as shown in (a) is sent from an exchange to the FWS, the FWS responds to the log information with the ID number of its own FWS (see FIG. 3B).
“Ws609h60100”), the ID number of the exchange that output the log information (“000011e3” in FIG. 3 (b)), and the name given to that exchange (“Hiroshima Naka A” in FIG. 3 (b)). "), The type of exchange (" ISM "in Fig. 3 (b)),
On the monitor of the display computer, the position where the file update status of the exchange is displayed (in FIG. 3 (b),
“| 1 | 1 |”: will be described later in detail).

The above-described processing is executed until the operator instructs the representative FWS 2 to end the creation of the integrated log file. Then, when the operator gives an instruction to end the creation of the integrated log file in the representative FWS2 (f), the representative FWS2 transmits an instruction to end the log transmission process to each of the FWS1-1 to 1-m (ki), The log information reception process of itself is ended. Further, each of the FWSs 1-1 to 1-m that has received the termination instruction terminates the log transmission process (K).

Next, the monitoring screen creating function in the file update monitoring system of this embodiment will be described with reference to the sequence diagram shown in FIG. The sequence shown in FIG. 4 is performed in parallel with the sequence shown in FIG. First, from any of the display computers 3, 7 and 10, te
Connect to the representative FWS2 by lnet or rlogin (K). At this time, the display computer is emulating a VT terminal. Then, when the display computer issues an instruction to the representative FWS 2 to execute the monitoring screen creation function (C), the representative FWS 2 starts the creation of the monitoring screen (S).

First, the representative FWS 2 monitors the size of the integrated log file created by the above-mentioned log receiving function. Then, when the size of the integrated log file changes, the contents of the newly accumulated log information are recognized. Then, based on the information added by the FWS that has transmitted the log information (see FIG. 3), it is recognized from which exchange under which FWS control the log information is transmitted. Further, the contents of the newly accumulated log information (procedure number, message contents, etc.) are compared with the contents of the update status judgment information stored in advance.

Here, the update status judgment information is information in which the contents of various log information and the information indicating the file update status corresponding to the contents are associated with each other. Here, as the file update status, "preprocessing", "new file startup", "new file confirmation", "file update end",
The six types of states of "abnormal message occurrence" and "interruption" are represented by different colors.

When the content of the log information is included in the update status judgment information, the color information corresponding to the content of the log information is read and the display color of the exchange related to the log information is read in the monitoring screen. Change according to the read color information. Then, the information of the monitor screen is transmitted to the connected display computer by the escape sequence (S), and the monitor screen is displayed on the display of the display computer.

Here, an example of the monitoring screen displayed on the display computer is shown in FIG. On the monitoring screen shown in this figure, for each ID number of each FWS, the name of the exchange that each FWS updates the file and the file update start time are displayed in a matrix. And the row number and the column number are given to the display position of each exchange,
On the monitoring screen shown in FIG. 5, the exchange "Hiroshima Naka A" in the upper left corner
Is displayed on the first row and the first column. Further, in the information added by each FWS shown in FIG. 3B, the display position “| 1 | 1 |” of the file update status indicates that it is in the first row and the first column.

Hereinafter, the representative FWS 2 continues until the display computer sends an instruction to end the monitoring screen creating function.
The above process is performed line by line in the integrated log file, and
Run in real time. Then, when the monitoring of the file updating work is ended, the representative computer F is displayed from the display computer.
An end instruction of the monitor screen creating function is transmitted to WS2 (S), and the connection with the representative FWS2 by telnet or rlogin is released (S).

A program for realizing the above-mentioned log transmitting function, log receiving function, monitoring screen creating function, and monitoring screen displaying function is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium and recorded on this recording medium. The file update work may be monitored by loading the program into a computer system and executing it.

Here, the "computer system" includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices, and further includes W
If the WW system is used, the homepage providing environment (or display environment) is also included. The "computer-readable recording medium" means a floppy (registered trademark) disc, a magneto-optical disc, an RO.
M, a portable medium such as a CD-ROM, and a storage device such as a hard disk built in a computer. Further, the "computer-readable recording medium" means a volatile memory (RA) inside a computer system which serves as a server or a client when transmitting a program through a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line.
As in M), the one holding the program for a certain period of time is also included.

The above program may be transmitted from a computer system that stores the program in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. here,
The "transmission medium" for transmitting the program is a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a telephone line (communication line).

Further, the above program may be one for realizing some of the above-mentioned functions, and one that can realize the above-mentioned functions in combination with a program already recorded in the computer system, that is, It may be a so-called difference file (difference program).

[0035]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the log information recorded in each of the plurality of file updating devices is collectively collected in one log file in the file updating monitoring device, the contents of the file updating work performed by each file updating device are comprehensively managed. It becomes easy to do. Further, since a monitoring screen showing the file update work status being performed by the plurality of file update devices is created based on the log information transmitted from each file update device, the file update work of each file update device can be performed. The situation can be grasped collectively.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a file update monitoring system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the file update monitoring system.

[Fig. 3] Each F constituting the file update monitoring system
It is a figure which shows the content of the log information transmitted from WS to representative FWS.

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the file update monitoring system.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a monitoring screen in the file update monitoring system.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a configuration of a system that executes a conventional file update operation.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of log information recorded by each FWS in the system.

[Explanation of symbols]

1-1, ..., 1-m File update workstation (FWS) 2 Representative file update workstation (representative FW
S) 3,7,10 Display computer 4,8,54,55 Network 5,9,56 Router 6 Gateway 51-1, ..., 51-n Switch 52 Aggregator 53 Switch maintenance support system

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Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of exchanges for exchanging communication lines according to the respective installed files, and a file installed in a predetermined exchange among the plurality of exchanges is updated via a network. , A plurality of file update devices that record log information relating to the work status of the file update for each exchange, and the log information that has been respectively transmitted from the plurality of file update devices via the network into one A file update monitoring system comprising: a file update monitoring device for recording in a log file. 2. Each of the plurality of file update devices transmits the log information to the file update monitoring device every time new log information is recorded, and at least the own file update device is identified in the log information transmitted at that time. And the information for identifying the log information exchange, and the file update monitoring device adds the log information and the file update device each time the log information is received from the file update device. The file update monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein a monitor screen showing a file update work status being performed by the plurality of file update devices is created based on the information. 3. The file update monitoring system according to claim 2, further comprising a monitoring screen display device for displaying a monitoring screen created by the file update monitoring device via a network. 4. A computer-readable recording medium recording a monitoring program for monitoring a file update status when a plurality of file updating devices update files installed in a plurality of exchanges, respectively. A computer-readable recording medium having a monitoring program recorded thereon, the monitoring program having a step of collectively recording the log information relating to the file update work status transmitted from each of the file updating devices. 5. The monitoring program recorded on the computer-readable recording medium is further executed by the plurality of file updating devices based on the log information transmitted from each of the plurality of file updating devices. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 4, further comprising a step of creating a monitoring screen indicating a status of file update work.