JPH09162863A - Network management equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage status information of managed equipments without missing status information of the managed equipment when the management equipment matches the status information of the managed equipments. SOLUTION: Status information of managed equipments 2a, 2b, 3 is given to an information communication means 4 in the management equipment 1 and stored in an information storage means 6 via an information storage means 10 and an information update means 5 is used to update a display content of an information display means 8 and the management information in the information storage means 6. When the management equipment 1 is started and the communication among the managed equipment 2a, 2b, 3 is initialized, the status information is matched. An information matching means 7 reports start and end of matching processing and a managed equipment for the matching processing to the information storage means 10. The information matching means 7 reflects the current status information acquired from the managed equipment as the matching processing. All the status information from the start of the matching processing to the end is stored sequentially in the information storage means 10. After the end of matching processing, the stored status information is sequentially fed to the information update means 5 for update processing to reflect the stored status information on the update processing.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a network management device that manages information on state changes of managed devices in the same network composed of a plurality of managed devices.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional network management device of this type is intended to manage the entire network from one point, and has a function of detecting and displaying a status change such as fault information in the network. . FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional network management device. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 is a network management device (hereinafter, referred to as management device) that manages information about changes in network status.
Reference numerals a and 2b are managed devices forming a network, 3 is a managed device to which the management device 1 is connected, 4 is information communication means for communicating with the managed device 3, and 5 is various status changes of the managed device. Information updating means for receiving and updating the status information of the managed device, 6 is information storing means for storing management information including status information and configuration information of the managed device, and 7 is management information of the information storing means 6 and actual information. Information matching means for matching with the status information of the managed device, and 8 is information display means for displaying various statuses of the managed device.

Now, taking a case where a failure occurs in the managed device 2a as an example, the managed device 3 is replaced by the managed device 2a.
The status information of a and 2b is periodically collected for each managed device,
Since the collected status information is sent to the management device 1 in order,
The status information indicating that the status of the managed device 2a has changed is sent to the management device 1. At this time, the status information of the managed device 3 itself is also sent to the management device 1. In the management device 1, this status information is sent to the information communication means 4 in the management device 1.
, And sends it to the information updating means 5. The information updating means 5 updates the management information in the information storing means 6 and then sends the information of the state change to the information displaying means 8. The information display means 8 performs an operation of updating the display contents on the man-machine interface according to the sent information on the state change. As a result, the change in the state of the network is reflected in the management device 1.

When the management apparatus 1 is started up, and when the management apparatus 1 and the managed apparatus 3 and the management apparatus 1 and the managed apparatus 2a,
At the time of initialization of communication between the 2b, the information matching means 7 controls the managed device 3 to match the management information of the information storage means 6 with the managed device 3 or the status information of the managed devices 2a and 2b.
On the other hand, the managed device 3 causes the managed devices 2a and 2b to periodically stop the operation of collecting status information. Information matching means 7
Acquires the current status information of the managed device 3 or the managed devices 2a and 2b, completes the matching process and reflects the status information, and then periodically collects information of the managed device 3 from the information matching means 7 again. To start the operation of.

The management apparatus 1 changes the status of the network based on the management information stored in the information storage unit 6 which is matched by the information matching unit 7 with the status information from the managed device 3 or the managed devices 2a and 2b. Work to reflect.

[0006]

However, the network management device having such a configuration is used when matching the status information of the managed device to which the management device is connected or the other managed devices forming the network. However, there is a problem that the status information of the managed device cannot be sent to the management device until the management device stops the periodical information collection and the matching process ends and the acquisition of the status information starts. It was

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. When the management device matches the status information of the managed device, the management device manages the status information of the managed device without missing the status information. It is an object of the present invention to provide an excellent network management device that can be used.

[0008]

In order to achieve this object, a network management apparatus according to the present invention comprises an information communication means for communicating status information with a representative managed apparatus under management, Information storage means for storing status information, information updating means for receiving status information of various status changes of the managed device and updating management information, information for storing management information consisting of status information and configuration information of the managed device Storage means, information matching means for matching management information stored in the information storage means with actual status information, and information display means for displaying various statuses of the managed device on a man-machine interface Is.

According to the above construction, the information matching means notifies the information storing means at the start and end of the matching processing and the managed device to be matched, and the information storing means performs matching during the matching processing. All the status information of the managed device to be processed is accumulated, and after the completion of the matching process, the accumulated status information is sequentially transmitted to the information updating means, the management information is updated and further transmitted to the information display means.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a network management device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Further, the same reference numerals are given to those having the same function and effect described in FIG. 2 of the conventional example. In FIG. 1, 1 is a management device (network management device), 2a, 2b, 3 are managed devices, and 3 is a representative management device, 4 in particular.
Is information communication means, 5 is information updating means, 6 is information storing means, 7 is information matching means, 8 is information displaying means, and 10 is information storing means for storing status information from the information communicating means 4.

Next, in the embodiment configured as described above, first, when a failure occurs in any of the managed devices 2a, 2b and 3, the status information thereof is the same as that of the representative device. It is collected by the management device 3 and sent to the information communication means 4 in the management device 1. The information communication means 4 sends this to the information storage means 10. The information storage means 10 normally sends the state information sent from the information communication means 4 to the information update means 5 as it is. The information updating means 5 updates the management information of the information storing means 6 from the state information, and then the information displaying means 8
The information display means 8 updates the display contents on the man-machine interface according to the sent state change information. As a result, the change in the state of the network is reflected in the management device 1.

When the management device 1 is started up, and when the management device 1 and the representative managed device 3 and the communication between the management device 1 and the managed devices 2a and 2b are initialized, the management information of the information storage means 6 and the representative information are stored. Managed device 3 or managed devices 2a, 2b
In order to perform the matching of the status information, the information matching unit 7 notifies the information storage unit 10 of the managed device to be matched. The information matching unit 7 acquires the current status information from the managed device to be matched, reflects the status information through the information updating unit 5, and then matches the managed device previously notified to the information storage unit 10. Notify that the processing is completed. Further, the information display means 8 updates the display according to the management information after the completion of the matching process.

In the information storage means 10, from the notification of the start of the matching process of the managed device to the end of the matching process, the matching information of the matching process is included in the status information sent from the representative managed device 3. All the state information from the target managed device is accumulated in order and is not sent to the information updating means 5. Then, after receiving the end notification of the matching process from the information matching means 7, the held state information is sent to the information updating means 5 in order, and the management information of the information storing means 6 and the information displaying means 8 are updated. I do.

Even if the current status information of the managed device changes at any timing during the matching process, if the status information generated before and after that is sequentially reflected to the status information during the matching process, the status information will be reflected. The status information managed in the management device 1 after the completion is equal to the actual status information of the managed device.

As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, the management apparatus 1 is provided with the function of holding the status information from the managed apparatus, and the management apparatus 1 stores the information during the matching processing of the status information of the managed apparatus. By operating the means 10, when performing the matching process with one management device, it is possible to correctly manage the status information during the matching process from the managed device without omission,
The state information managed by the management apparatus 1 and the actual state information of the managed apparatus can be kept consistent.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention,
When performing the matching process of the status information of the management device and the managed device, the status information of the managed device generated during the matching process is not lost and the status information of both the management device and the managed device is kept consistent. There is an effect that can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a network management device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional network management device.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Management device (network management device), 2a, 2b, 3
... managed device, 4 ... information communication means, 5 ... information updating means, 6 ... information storing means, 7 ... information matching means, 8 ... information displaying means, 10 ... information storing means.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of managed devices configure the same network, one of them is selectively specified as a representative managed device, and the managed device is connected to the representative managed device. A network management device characterized by accumulating state change information from the management device and reflecting the information without omission. 2. A network management device comprising a plurality of managed devices forming the same network, selectively selecting one of the managed devices as a representative managed device, and connecting to the representative managed device. , Information communication means for communicating status information with the representative managed device being managed, information storage means for storing the status information, and status information of various status changes of the managed device Information updating means for updating the managed device, status information of the managed device,
Information storage means for storing the management information composed of configuration information, information matching means for matching the management information stored in the information storage means with the actual status information, and the managed device on a man-machine interface. And an information display unit for displaying various states of the above, and the state information accumulated in the information accumulating unit during the matching process of the information matching unit is reflected after the matching process is completed.