JPH08286877A - Information processing unit and its message generator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To allow a processing unit to cope flexibly with a wide range of events and a new event with simple configuration by inserting event specific information to a basic message extracted based on an event identifier in event data. CONSTITUTION: Management programs 21, 23 of a printer 12 and a scanner 13 detect respectively an event of occurred fault or the like and use event data 22 and inform the occurrence to a user system 11. An event message generation program 16 of the user system 11 uses an identifier (event ID) denoting a kind of an event included in the event data 22 to retrieve a message data base file 18 and extracts corresponding event data (basic message) 24, inserts information specific to the event to the basic message 24 to generate a complete message and an event message display program 19 displays the message onto a display device 15.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus which has a plurality of resources, detects an event that has occurred in the resource, and notifies the detected event, and more particularly to a message generating method therefor, which is particularly efficient and flexible. It allows you to generate messages.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the fault recording data output method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-94337, when displaying fault recording data to a user, an identifier representing the type of fault data is associated with an individual report generating function. Different output formats can be adopted for each failure data. However, in this method, if the output format is similar, but there is a difference in one place, another report creation function is required, and the configuration becomes complicated.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and is capable of handling a wide range of events with a very simple structure and generating various corresponding messages, and The objective is to provide a message generation method that can flexibly respond to new events and easily generate corresponding messages.

[0004]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a plurality of resources are provided, an event occurred in the resource is detected, and the detected event is notified. In the information processing device, means for generating event data including an identifier indicating the type of the detected event and information unique to the detected event, and receiving the generated event data, the event from the event data Means for retrieving information unique to each, a storage means for storing a basic message for each type of event, a generated event data, and a corresponding basic message from the storage means based on the identifier, Provide a means to insert event-specific information into the above basic message and generate a complete message. It is way.

In the first feature of the present invention, the event-specific information of the event data includes one or more parts data to be inserted in the basic message and an indication of the number of parts data. Good. Further, the means for extracting the information unique to the event can execute the procedure of extracting the component data from the event data as many times as the number of the component data.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in a message generation device used in an information processing device that has a plurality of resources, detects an event that has occurred in the resource, and notifies the detected event, Storage means for storing basic messages for each type of
Receiving event data including an identifier representing the type of the detected event and information specific to the detected event, extracting the information unique to the event from the event data, and receiving the event data , A means for extracting a corresponding basic message from the storage means on the basis of the identifier, inserting information unique to the event into the basic message, and generating a complete message.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in a message generating method used in an information processing apparatus that includes a plurality of resources, detects an event that has occurred in the resource, and notifies the detected event, the type of event Storing event-specific information for each event, and receiving event data including an identifier representing the type of detected event and information specific to the detected event, and extracting information specific to the event from the event data Step and receiving the event data above,
A corresponding basic message is fetched from the storage means based on the identifier, information specific to the event is inserted into the basic message, and a complete message is generated.

[0008]

In this invention, the event data includes
Based on the identifier indicating the type of event, the corresponding basic message is retrieved from the storage means, and the event
Retrieves event-specific information contained in the data,
Since this unique information is inserted into the basic message to generate a complete message, the basic message can be used in common for many messages, and the procedure for retrieving event-specific information is also available for many messages. Can share. Therefore, the message can be generated with a simplified configuration as a whole. Moreover, new events can be handled easily and flexibly by adding basic messages.

[0009]

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

FIG. 1 shows an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment. In this figure, a user system 11 is connected to resources such as a printer 12 and a scanner through a network such as a LAN or an individual cable. . The user system 11 is, for example, a personal computer or a workstation, and has various input / output devices such as a processing device 14 and a display device 15. As shown in each block, the event message creation / display unit implemented by the software implementation mode in the user system 11 includes an event message creation program 16, an event data collection procedure group 17, a message database file 18, and an event. -Has a message display program 19. The event data collection procedure group 17 comprises a plurality of event data collection procedures 20.

The printer 12 also has a printer management program 21, which detects an event such as a failure that has occurred in the printer 12, and uses the event data 22 for the detected event in the user system 11. Notice. The event data 22 will be described in detail later with reference to FIG. Similarly, the scanner 13 has a scanner management program 23, and the scanner management program 23 detects an event of the scanner 13 and notifies the user system 11 of the detected event using the event data 22. Other resources have the same event detection notification function. The resource may be hardware or software.

Message database file 18
Holds message data 24 for each type of event. The message data 24 is, as shown in FIG. 2, an event ID that is an identifier indicating the type of event.
24a, basic message character string 24b, list 2 of procedures for extracting message parts from the event data 22
4d, and a display 24c of the number of procedures specified in the list 24d. Basic message character string 24b
Is a static message part that is common to the events of this type, and the variable% S is arranged in a different part for each event. This variable part is different for each event,
Insert a dynamic message part to get a complete message.

In the example of FIG. 2, message data 24 is shown regarding the type of event that some service is down for some reason on any resource. Then, there are two variables in the basic message character string "service% S is stopped for the reason of% S", and two message parts are fitted in this variable part. The message part is "GetServiceNa
It is extracted from the event data by the event data collection procedure specified by the identifiers "me" and "GetErrorReason".

FIG. 3 shows a more specific example of the message data 24. FIG. 3 shows seven pieces of message data 24. The first message data corresponds to when a paper shortage occurs in a printer or the like. The event ID 24a is an alphabetic character string starting with "id", the basic message character string 24b is "% S paper has run out.", And the number of procedures displayed 24
c is 1 and the message part is the event data 22.
List of event / data collection procedures to retrieve from
d is indicated by the alphabet beginning with "PS". Other message data examples are described in the same manner, and the description will not be repeated.

FIG. 4 shows the format of the event data 22 sent from the printer management program 21 or the scanner management program 23 to the user system 11 via a unique cable or network. FIG.
In the event data 22, the event data 22 is an event ID 22a that is an identifier that represents the type of event, an event importance ID 22b that is an identifier that represents the importance of the event, and an event category I that is an identifier that represents the category of the event.
D22c, a dynamic message component list 22e that is a list of dynamic message components, and a number display 22d that indicates the number of dynamic message components included in the dynamic message component list 22e.

The dynamic message component list 22e has identifier / data pairs consisting of the identifiers of the dynamic message components and the data of the actual dynamic message components, the number of which is the above-mentioned number display.

FIG. 5 shows the message generation process.
In this figure, the event message creation program 16 determines whether an event is notified by the event data 22 from a resource such as the printer 12 (S11). Event / Message Creation Program 16
Receives the event data 22, the event I
The message database file 18 is searched using D22a, and the corresponding message data 24 is retrieved (S12, S13). Next, the event message creation program 16 initializes the order of the positions of inserting the dynamic message parts (the order of the event data collection procedure in the message data 24) P to 1 and sets the unexecuted event data collection procedure. The number N (the number of uninserted dynamic message parts) N is initialized by the procedure number display 24c of the message data 24 (S14).

After that, it is judged whether or not there is an unexecuted event data collection procedure 20 (whether or not there is a dynamic message part not yet inserted), and if there is, the P-th item registered in the message data 24. The event data 22 is passed to the event data collection procedure 20 of (1) and the character string of the message part corresponding to the procedure is extracted (S1
5, S16). Event message creation program 1
6 is extracted and the character string is the basic message character string 24b.
To the P-th variable of (S17). After this, P is incremented by 1 and N is decremented by 1 (S18). After that, the same processing is repeated until N becomes zero. When N becomes zero, the completed message is supplied to the event message display program 19, and the event message display program 19 displays the message on the display device 15.

According to the event message generation method of this information processing apparatus, it is possible to cope with message generation of a new type of event by adding the message data 24 and the like. Event data 22 that the management program on the resource side responds to according to a new type of event
On the other hand, add message data 24 corresponding to a new type of event to the message database file 18, and if a new event data collection procedure 20 is required, prepare it. Good. With such a configuration, basic message generation and
You can easily deal with new types of messages without changing the display method framework.

[0020]

As described above, according to the present invention, the corresponding basic message is fetched from the storage means on the basis of the identifier indicating the type of event included in the event data, and further included in the event data. Is
It takes the event-specific information and inserts it into the basic message to produce a complete message, so the basic message can be used in common with many messages, and the event-specific information The procedure for retrieving can also be shared with many messages. Therefore, the message can be generated with a simplified configuration as a whole. Moreover, new events can be handled easily and flexibly by adding basic messages.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a format of message data of a message database file of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a specific example of the message data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a format of event data used to notify an event in the above embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the above embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 User System 12 Printer 13 Scanner 15 Display Device 16 Event Message Creation Program 17 Event Data Collection Procedure Group 18 Message Database File 19 Event Message Display Program 21 Printer Management Program 22 Event Data 23 Scanner Management Program 24 Message ·data

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus comprising a plurality of resources, detecting an event that has occurred in the resource, and notifying the detected event, the identifier indicating the type of the detected event, and the event unique to the detected event. Means for generating event data containing information, and receiving the generated event data
A means for extracting information unique to the event from the data, a storage means for storing a basic message for each type of event, and a generated basic data for receiving the event data from the storage means based on the identifier. And the information specific to the event is inserted into the basic message to generate a complete message. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the event-specific information of the event data includes one or more parts data to be inserted into the basic message and a display of the number of parts data. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the means for extracting the information unique to the event executes the procedure for extracting the component data from the event data as many times as the number of the component data. 4. A message generation device having a plurality of resources, used for an information processing device that detects an event that has occurred in the resource and notifies the detected event, and stores a basic message for each type of event. Storage means, means for receiving event data including an identifier representing the type of detected event and information specific to the detected event, and extracting information specific to the event from the event data; Means for receiving data, extracting a corresponding basic message from the storage means based on the identifier, inserting information specific to the event into the basic message, and generating a complete message. A message generation device of an information processing device. 5. A method of generating a message, comprising a plurality of resources, detecting an event occurred in the resource and notifying the detected event, wherein a basic message is stored for each event type. And receiving event data including an identifier indicating the type of detected event and information specific to the detected event, and extracting information specific to the event from the event data; Receiving and retrieving a corresponding basic message from the storage means based on the identifier, inserting information specific to the event into the basic message, and generating a complete message. Device message generation method.