JPH04317236A - Display message generation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the unification of display messages and to quantitatively grasp a communication level by converting the information of respective communication control device into an OSI model and adopting an object-oriented idea. CONSTITUTION:A communication control device group 1g transmits display message information 2c to 2e to a display message generator. The display message generator converts the information acquired from the communication control device group 1g into the OSI model, judges the message to display and outputs it to a display device. The respective information to be displayed is prepared at the place where an I/F with a host procedure is converted such as a host I/F-z and host I/F-a. Thus, by displaying a layer currently processible as an OSI layer and adopting the object-oriented idea, the respective control devices can freely input the display information to the display message generator.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display message generation device for a communication control device that uses OSI communication procedures.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there have been devices that display connection messages and error information. In the prior art, for information display, a computer includes a communication control device group 1g and a display device 1a, as shown in FIG. The communication control device group 1g consists of various communication control devices and a display message generation device 1h to 1m that outputs communication information of the various communication control devices to a display device as a predetermined display message.

[0003] In conventional devices, each communication control device independently displays information necessary for communication on one display device, as shown in FIG.
Display a message in section a. According to this device, each communication device needs to output a message to section 1a in a common message format in order to maintain uniformity. Also,
Since each communication control device outputs to one destination, it was necessary for the display message generation devices from 1h to 1m of each communication control device to output messages in consideration of coordination.

0004

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In conventional display message generation devices, each display message generation device performs display independently, so it is difficult to maintain uniformity when each device issues a display request at the same time. Ta. Furthermore, it has been difficult to quantitatively grasp on the display screen at which level a problem is occurring in each communication control device. Furthermore, in order to realize such a function, each communication control device must receive information for exclusive control from other communication control devices, which poses the problem that the independence of each communication control device as a device is weakened. Ta.

[0005] This invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and provides a display that can easily unify display messages, quantitatively grasp the communication level, and ensure the independence of each communication control device. The purpose is to obtain a message generation device.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] A display message generation device according to the present invention includes an information distribution processing device that defines display message information sent from a communication control device to a corresponding layer among OSI layers of the communication control device. , and a display object processing device that determines whether or not to display the information distributed by the information distribution processing device on the screen according to the processing status of each layer of the OSI, and performs display processing.

[0007]

[Operation] The display message generation device in this invention has the following features:
Since the information of each communication control device is converted into an OSI model, the currently processable layers can be displayed as OSI layers. In addition, by adopting an object-oriented approach, each control device can freely input display information to the display message generation device, so the display screen and processing of the control device can be performed while being aware of other processing devices. There is no need to do so. In other words, even if an abnormality occurs in an intermediate control device, other control devices can continue processing within the range allowed by that control device. On the display screen, in the event of an abnormality, information to that effect will be displayed, and the processing currently in progress by other control devices will be displayed.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, the communication control device group 1g sends display message information 2c to 2e to the display message generation device. The display message generation device converts the information obtained from the communication control device group 1g into an OSI model, determines the message to be displayed, and outputs the message to the display device. Each information to be displayed is upper I/F-z, upper I/F-z,
It is created where the I/F with the upper procedure is converted, such as F-a and upper I/F-b. If the lower communication control device is a conventional one such as the upper I/F-z and does not have a new I/F, information is provided to the display message generation device on behalf of the conventional I/F.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the display message generation device. The display message generation device processes objects corresponding to the seven layers of OSI. The information distribution processing device defines which OSI layer the information created by each upper I/F corresponds to, and distributes the information to each of the object processes 31 to 37. Each object process determines whether to perform screen display depending on the processing status. Further, the processing from 34 to 37 is not specified in particular, and may be performed using X.
Each person will decide based on the method of 25 higher order procedures.

FIG. 3 shows the structure of the display message format.
Shown below. In FIG. 3, 4n displays the number of the OSI top layer that is currently undergoing communication processing. In addition, the MSG displays processing information that is currently considered necessary by the user (
This is defined by the user). This information corresponds to the 4n layer. Further, in 4n, requests from the highest layer are sequentially displayed as necessary.

[0011] As shown in FIG. 4, the upper I/F in the communication control device performs a
Send information corresponding to +1 to the display message generation device.

Taking the N+1 layer as an example, the processing of each object in the display message generation device is realized as shown in FIG. As for the processing content, when a processing request comes to the N+1 layer, the processing status is checked,
Check whether it is currently being processed, has a processing error, or has completed processing. In subsequent processing, a determination is made as to whether to display or not. As a result, those who have the right to display will display it.

FIG. 6 describes an example of how the results of implementing the present invention are displayed using the following conditions as a model. Condition 1. This model is X. This is a message sending/receiving terminal using PVC mode with the V.25 communication procedure. 2. In terms of OSI layers, up to four layers are used. 3. Only four layers can be displayed from the user-defined upper layer.

[0014]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, the information of each communication control device is converted into an OSI model, and the structure is configured to incorporate object-oriented thinking, so display messages can be easily unified. This has the effect of providing a display message generation device that can quantitatively grasp the communication level and ensure the independence of each communication control device.

[0015]

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a communication information display system using a display message generation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a main body of a display message generation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a display message format of the display message generation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of information output from a higher-level I/F in a communication control device.

FIG. 5 is a processing flow diagram of each object of the display message generation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of use of the display message generation device according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an overall configuration diagram of a conventional communication information display system.

[Explanation of symbols]

1g Communication control device group

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An information distribution processing device that defines display message information sent from a communication control device to a corresponding OSI layer of the communication control device; A display message generation device comprising a display object processing device that determines whether or not to perform screen display for each layer depending on the processing status and performs display processing.