JPH05167648A - Fault notice system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve a fault notice efficiency by displaying a fault notice onto a display section when a notice speed corresponding to the received fault notice is larger than a preset threshold speed so as to notify a very important fault. CONSTITUTION:A communication equipment 1 sends a fault notice to a host monitor 2 on the occurrence of a fault. In this case, current communication speed information is sent in addition to the fault notice. Upon the receipt of the fault notice, the monitor 2 uses its discrimination section 3 to compare the communication speed information at that time with a preset threshold speed 4. When the communication speed at that time is larger than the threshold speed 4, it is discriminated that the fault notice is highly important and the fault notice is displayed on a display section 5. When the communication speed at that time is smaller than the threshold speed 4, it is discriminated that the fault notice is less important and the fault notice is not displayed on the display section 5. Thus, the efficient and detailed fault management is implemented.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fault notification system, and more particularly to a fault notification system including a communication device and a monitoring device as a host device for monitoring a fault occurrence notification from the communication device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a fault notification system in which a fault notification from a communication device is received by a monitoring device, which is a host device, and the fault notification is displayed. In such a system, all failure notifications generated from the same communication device are displayed on the monitoring device regardless of the current communication speed of the communication device. However, even if the failure notification is notified from the same communication device, if there is a characteristic that the importance of the failure notification is different depending on the communication speed at that time, in the above-mentioned conventional method, regardless of the importance. Since the fault is displayed, the importance is completely ignored, and the fault notification is inefficient.

As another method, there is a method in which each communication device sends a notification to a higher-level monitoring device each time a failure occurs.
In this method, the failure notification is issued only for the number of times of failure occurrence, so that there is a drawback that the failure notification efficiency is low.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a fault notification system which improves fault notification efficiency by displaying fault notifications of high importance.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a fault notification system which improves the fault notification efficiency by collectively reporting the number of times of fault occurrence at the time of polling from a higher level.

[0006]

A fault notification system according to the present invention comprises a communication device for transmitting a fault notification when a fault occurs, and a monitoring device having a display section for receiving the fault notification from the communication device and displaying the fault. A fault notification system,
The communication device has means for notifying the monitoring device of the current communication speed at the time of the notification of the failure, and the monitoring device is provided when the communication speed corresponding to the received failure notification is greater than a preset threshold value. It is characterized in that it has a judgment means for displaying the failure notification on the display unit.

Another fault notification system according to the present invention is a fault notification system comprising a plurality of communication devices and a monitoring device for sequentially monitoring these communication devices for fault monitoring. Has a counting means for counting the number of occurrences of a failure in response to the occurrence of the failure, and means for transmitting the counting content of the counting means in response to polling from the monitoring device and simultaneously initializing the counting content,
The monitoring device is characterized in that it has means for performing polling for instructing each of the communication devices to notify the count content, which is the number of occurrences of each failure.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. The communication device 1 transmits a failure notification to the higher-level monitoring (management) device 2 when a failure occurs. In this case, the current communication speed information is also transmitted together with the fault notification.

When the monitoring device 2 receives the failure notification, the judging unit 3 compares the communication speed information at that time with a preset threshold value 4. If the communication speed at that time is higher than this threshold, it is judged that the importance of the failure notification is high, and the failure notification is displayed on the display unit 5.

If the communication speed at that time is less than or equal to the threshold,
It is determined that the degree of importance is low, and the failure notification is not displayed.

FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of another embodiment of the present invention. In the communication device 1, a fault monitoring unit 6 that monitors a fault, a counter 7 that counts the number of occurrences in response to the occurrence of the fault, and communication that transmits the contents of the counter 7 in response to polling from the monitoring device 2. And a section 8 are provided.

The initial value of the counter 7 is assumed to be "0", and when the contents of the counter are transmitted to the monitoring unit 2 by the communication unit 8, the contents are reset to "0".

When the fault monitor 6 detects the occurrence of a fault, a signal is generated for the counter 7, and the counter 7 increments the count content by "1" based on this signal.

When polling is received from the higher-level device 2, the communication section 8 reads the contents of the counter 7 at that time and outputs "0".
If so, no processing is performed, and if the value is "1" or more,
The value is notified to the monitoring device 2 as a failure notification. At the same time, the counter 7 is reset to "0" and returns to the initial state again.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to perform efficient and detailed fault management by selectively displaying fault notifications from the same communication device only for those having high importance. There is.

Further, according to the present invention, in response to polling, the number of times of failure occurrence at that time is notified to the upper layer, so that an effective failure notification is performed and the load on the monitoring device is reduced. is there.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Communication Device 2 Upper Device 3 Judgment Unit 4 Threshold Value 5 Display Unit 6 Fault Monitoring Unit 7 Counter 8 Communication Unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A fault notification system comprising: a communication device that transmits a fault notification when a fault occurs; and a monitoring device that receives a fault notification from the communication device and has a display unit that displays the fault. The communication device has means for notifying the monitoring device of the current communication speed at the time of the failure notification, and the monitoring device displays the display when the communication speed corresponding to the received failure notification is greater than a preset threshold value. A fault notification system, characterized in that it has a judgment means for displaying the fault notification in a section. 2. A fault notification system comprising a plurality of communication devices and a monitoring device for performing fault monitoring by sequentially polling these communication devices, said communication device comprising:
The monitoring device further comprises counting means for responding to the occurrence of a failure and counting the number of times of occurrence, and means for transmitting the counting content of the counting means in response to polling from the monitoring device and simultaneously initializing the counting content. The device has a failure notification system, which has a means for polling each of the communication devices to instruct notification of the counted content, which is the number of occurrences of each failure.