JPH0289120A - Centralized supervisory equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To recognize a fault in an early stage and to remove the waste of printing by interrupting command printing at a place for satisfactory segment, executing the printing of fault information and resuming command printing when there is the printing request of fault information. CONSTITUTION:A printing control part 1 causes a printer 2 to print fault information when the fault occurs based on the presence of absence of the fault in a device to be supervised 3, which are collected at every constant period, and gives the printing command of a large quantity of data to the printer 2. Namely, if printing is executed in the command when the fault of the device to be supervised 3 occurs, printing is executed to the final row and during the printing interrupted. Then, a new page is started, and the interruption printing of fault information is executed. When interruption printing is terminated, the new page is furthermore started, and printing by the interrupted command is resumed. Thus, the recognition and analysis of the fault can speedily be executed, and printing by the command is prevented from being compulsorily terminated, whereby the waste of printing can be saved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention is applied to a device that centrally monitors a large number of devices to be monitored. In particular, the present invention relates to an interrupt printing means for failure information that occurs during printing of a large amount of data.

〔overview〕

The present invention provides a centralized monitoring device having a means for printing sudden failure information and a large amount of information by command, which interrupts command printing at a well-defined point when there is a request to print failure information during printing by command. By printing fault information and then restarting command printing, it is possible to quickly confirm faults and eliminate wasted printing.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, if a failure occurs while printing by a command operation, the printing is stopped by the command operation and the failure information is printed.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Unlike conventional methods such as this, information about a failure in the monitored device that occurs while the printer is printing using a command from the central monitoring device cannot be printed on the printer unless printing using the command is stopped, so a large amount of printing using the command is required. In this case, there is a disadvantage that confirmation of failure information may be delayed. Furthermore, if priority is given to printing the fault information, printing by the command must be forcibly terminated and the printing by the command must be printed from the beginning after the printing of the fault information, resulting in waste.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to eliminate these drawbacks, and aims to provide a centralized monitoring device having a printing means that allows prompt confirmation of fault information and eliminates wasted printing based on commands.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention provides a printing means for printing a plurality of pages of print paper in page order, a first command means for instructing the printing means to print information related to a failure of a monitored station that has occurred during scanning at a predetermined cycle; and a second command that instructs the printing means to activate the printing means in response to a command given by the user and to continue printing on the next page of printing paper when printing has been performed up to the last line on the print paper. In a centralized monitoring device equipped with means, if the command of the first command means is issued while the command of the second command means is being executed, up to the last line on the printed paper being printed by the command of the second command means. means for continuing the printing of the last line; means for interrupting the printing by the second commanding means and performing printing on the next page of print paper according to the commands of the first commanding means when the printing of the last line is completed; The present invention is characterized in that it further comprises means for restarting printing on the next page of print paper according to the command from the second command means when the printing is completed.

[Effect]

If printing is in progress according to a command from the central monitoring device when a failure occurs in the monitored device, this printing is executed until the last line of the page being printed, then interrupted, a page break is performed, and the failure information is printed in an interrupt manner. When the interrupt printing is completed, a page break is made and printing according to the interrupted command is resumed.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. 1st
The figure is a block configuration diagram showing the configuration of this embodiment.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG.
and a first command means for instructing the printing means to print information related to a failure of the monitored station that occurred during scanning at a predetermined cycle; a second command means for giving a command to the printing means to continue printing on the print paper of the next page when printing has been executed up to the last line of the print sheet; means for continuing printing up to the last line on the print paper being printed according to the commands from the second command means when a command from the command means is issued; means for interrupting printing and executing printing on the next page of print paper according to the commands of the first commanding means, and then restarting printing on the next page of print paper when the printing is completed according to the commands of the second commanding means; Print side with? i1 part I.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. The print control unit 1 is
Based on the presence or absence of a failure in the monitored device, which is collected from the monitored device 3 via the control line 4 at regular intervals, the printer 2 prints failure information when a failure occurs. Command to print data.

That is, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2, data is printed line by line according to commands (step S
1) Step S2 to determine whether the print data is the last
), if a failure occurs during printing (step S3), a page break is performed if the print data is the last line of the page (steps S4 and S7), and printing of failure information is started (step S8). Furthermore, if the print data according to the command is not the last line, it is printed up to the last line of the page and a page break is performed (steps S4, S5, S6 and S7). When printing of the failure information is completed, a page break is performed and printing by command is resumed (
Steps S9 and 510).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention interrupts printing of fault information that has occurred in the monitored device during printing by a command, and therefore has the advantage of being able to quickly confirm and analyze faults. Furthermore, since printing by commands is not forcibly terminated, there is an effect that wasteful printing can be avoided. Furthermore, since printing is performed page by page, even if interrupt printing is performed, printing by commands and printing of failure information can be distinguished, and printing data sheets can be easily saved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the printing process procedure according to the embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Print control part, 2... Printer, 3... Monitored device, 4... Control line, 10... Central monitoring device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Printing means for performing printing on a plurality of pages of print paper in page order; A command means starts the printing means in response to a command given by the user, and when printing is executed up to the last line on the print paper, a command is sent to the printing means to continue printing on the next page of print paper. In a centralized monitoring device equipped with a second command means to give a command, when a command of the first command means is issued while the command of the second command means is being executed, the command of the second command means is printed on the printed paper according to the command of the second command means. means for continuing printing up to the last line of the line, and means for interrupting printing by the second commanding means and performing printing on the next page of print paper according to the commands of the first commanding means when printing of the last line is completed. and means for restarting printing on the next page of print paper according to the command from the second command means when the printing is completed.