JPH09231256A - Automatic generating device for hardware constitution - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and easily select hardware equipment corresponding to the specifications of respective constituent equipments that a computer system requests and generate its equipment constitution table and constitution diagram. SOLUTION: When the machine kind and its performance that the computer system requests are inputted to an input part 3, an equipment retrieval part 4 retrieves the name of an equipment which satisfies the requested performance and its performance from an equipment performance data part 1 where machine kinds, equipment names, and their performance are stored by the equipment names and supplies them to a tabulation part 5, which generates the hardware constitution table. Further, a rough sketch retrieval part 6 retrieves corresponding rough sketch data from an equipment rough sketch data part 2 stored with rough sketch data by the equipment names according to the equipment information from the equipment retrieval part 4 and supplies it to a plotting part 7 to generate the hardware constitution table.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically creating a hardware configuration of a computer system, and more particularly to an apparatus for automatically creating a hardware configuration capable of creating an optimum hardware configuration that satisfies specifications in terms of hardware performance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the case of configuring one computer system, determination of the hardware configuration required the system builder to have sufficient equipment knowledge.

Further, in creating a configuration table and configuration diagram for the determined hardware configuration, individual processing different from the configuration determination, for example, tabulation and drawing processing using different word processing software or DTP software. Etc. were needed.

[0004]

The determination of the hardware configuration of the conventional computer system described above, the acquisition of sufficient equipment knowledge for creating the configuration table and the configuration diagram, and the creation of various software for the table and the configuration diagram. There is a problem that it requires complicated knowledge such as utilization and is complicated.

An object of the present invention is to automatically select a hardware device corresponding to specifications of each component device required by a computer system and to efficiently and easily create a device configuration table and a configuration diagram. Providing a production device.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hardware configuration automatic creating apparatus for identifying a device type identifier indicating a device type of a device forming a computer system and a performance of the device forming the computer system. A device performance data storage means for storing a product name and performance data of devices constituting the computer system for each device product name, and a device schematic diagram for storing the schematic data necessary for drawing a schematic diagram corresponding to each device product name Data storage means, input means for inputting an identifier of a device type requested by the computer system and its performance specification, and a device item name and its name that satisfy the performance specification of the device type input from the device performance data storage means. A device search unit that searches the performance data, and a device search unit that uses the information supplied from the device search unit. From the device schematic data storing means for creating a hardware configuration table, a schematic drawing searching means for searching corresponding schematic drawing data from the device schematic drawing data storing means based on the equipment item name in the information supplied from the equipment searching means, and the schematic drawing searching means. And a drawing means for drawing a hardware configuration diagram of the devices constituting the computer system based on the supplied information.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hardware configuration automatic creating apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein the device schematic data storage means includes a device item name and an address for storing corresponding schematic data as a set. And an index section which stores the schematic diagram data and a data section which stores the schematic diagram data.

[0008]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an automatic hardware configuration creating apparatus of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an automatic hardware configuration creating apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a device performance data section 1 for accommodating an identifier indicating a device type, a device item name, and its performance specification for each device item name. A device schematic data part 2 having an index part that stores a device name and an address that stores the schematic data of the device and a data part that stores the schematic data, and a device type requested by the computer system. An input unit 3 for inputting the identifier and its performance specification, and a device search unit for referring to the device performance data unit 1 and searching for a device item name and its performance information that satisfy the performance specification of the device input to the input unit 3. 4 and a tabulation section 5 for tabulating the hardware configuration table of the computer system based on the information retrieved by the instrument retrieval section 4.
A schematic diagram search unit 6 for searching the schematic diagram data corresponding to the device item name by referring to the device schematic data unit 2 based on the information retrieved by the device retrieval unit 4, and the information and the schematic diagram retrieval unit retrieved by the device retrieval unit 4. Drawing unit 7 for drawing a hardware configuration diagram of the computer system based on the information retrieved by 6
It is comprised including.

FIG. 4A shows an example of a data storage diagram of the device performance data section 1.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the device performance data section 1 is an identifier indicating a device type (in the following description, referred to as a model, for example, an arithmetic processing device is A, an external storage device is B, and a printer is C. Yes), an identifier for identifying the performance of the device (referred to as a device item name in the following description), and performance data of the device having the device item name.

Since the performance items that characterize the respective models differ depending on the device type, the performance items to be stored in the performance data section of the device performance data section 1 are defined in advance for each model. The storage order in the performance data column is specified for each model. For example, regarding the arithmetic processing device, the arithmetic speed, the main storage capacity, ... Are defined as the performance items to be stored in the performance data column of the device performance data section 1, and the storage order in the performance data column is the arithmetic speed first. , Second, main storage capacity, third
To be specified as ... For the external storage device, for example, the transfer speed, the storage capacity, ... Are defined, and the storage order is specified as the transfer speed first, the second storage capacity, and the third. The data stored in the performance data column is the performance item name and its numerical value.

FIG. 4B shows an example of a data storage diagram of the device schematic data unit 2.

As shown in FIG. 4 (b), the device schematic data section 2 stores an index portion for storing a device product name and an address for storing the device schematic data as a set and data for storing the schematic data. And a section.

The input unit 3 is composed of, for example, a keyboard and a display, and when the input operation is started, the input section 3 shown in FIG.
The input format in which only the model name, model name, and each item name of the performance data shown in (a) is displayed on the display, and then, for example, when "A" is entered in the model field from the keyboard, "Calculation process" is displayed in the model name field. "Device", "Computing speed: (), storage capacity: (), ...: ()" in the performance data column
(() Indicates a space) and the model name and the item of performance required to be input for that model are displayed, so the operator can specify the required performance in the space in the performance data column (the part in () above). Key in the numerical data of from the keyboard.

As shown in FIG. 5B, the device configuration table is obtained by adding a device item name field to the input format of FIG. 5A, and the information supplied from the device search unit 4, that is, the model name. The device name and the performance numerical value are entered in the respective fields of the device configuration table by the tabulation unit 5 and created.

The drawing unit 7 has a block diagram standard format in advance, and it is processed by the information supplied from the schematic diagram search unit 6 and the device search unit 4 to create a device configuration diagram. The standard format is a block diagram in which blocks classified according to model are connected as shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of creating a device configuration table of the hardware configuration automatic creation apparatus of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a device configuration diagram of the hardware configuration automatic creation apparatus of this embodiment. It is a flow chart which shows the operation which creates.

Next, the operation of the hardware configuration automatic creation apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.

As a premise for starting the work of automatically creating a hardware configuration, a system design of a computer system is made,
The required hardware model and the performance specifications required for it are specified.

First, the creation of the device configuration table will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When the input unit 3 is started, the above-mentioned FIG.
The input format in which only the item names shown in is displayed is displayed on the display of the input unit 3 (step 201). First, in the model column on the first line, for example, a calculation process required by the system (Y branch of step 203) When the device identifier “A” is entered from the keyboard, as shown in FIG.
Predetermined items are displayed in Japanese characters in the model name column and the performance data column corresponding to this, and a numerical value indicating the required performance is input in the blank space (step 204).

In response to this, the device search section 4 sequentially reads the records from the device performance data section 1 (step 20).
6), match the model for that record (step 2
07) and satisfaction of performance specifications (step 208) are checked, and if the conditions are not satisfied (step 2)
(N branch of 07, N branch of step 208), the next record is read from the device performance data section 1, and this check is continued until the condition is satisfied (steps 206, 207,
Loops 208, 211, 212). If there are no records in the device performance data section 1 in the middle of the process, there is no hardware device that satisfies such a request, and the process ends abnormally (Y branch of step 212).

If the condition is satisfied (step 20)
The Y branch of 8), the device search unit 4 supplies each data of the record to the tabulation unit 5, and the tabulation unit 5 stores these data in FIG.
The data is entered in the corresponding fields in the device configuration table of (b) (step 209). The device retrieval unit 4 supplies each data of this record to the schematic diagram retrieval unit 6 (step 210), and repeats the above operation until the required model disappears for the next line of the input format and the next line (N in step 203). Branch), complete the equipment configuration table.

Next, the creation of the device configuration diagram will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In step 210 of FIG. 2 or step 301 of FIG. 3, the schematic diagram search unit 6 which receives the model and the device product name included in the record of the device performance data unit 1 from the device search unit 4 is A record is input from the index section of the schematic diagram data section 2 (step 303), a record having the same equipment item name is searched (Y branch of step 304),
The schematic data corresponding to the device is read from the schematic address and the device and the device item name are supplied to the drawing unit 7 (step 305), and the drawing unit 7 draws the schematic by the schematic data at the corresponding model position in the block diagram standard format. Enter the name of the device to be drawn.

This operation is performed every time data is supplied from the device search section 4 (N branch of step 307, step 3
The loop from 01 to step 307) is ended when the data is no longer supplied (N branch of step 307).

As described above, the hardware configuration automatic creation apparatus of the present embodiment can create the corresponding hardware configuration table and configuration diagram by simply inputting the model and the required performance required by the system. The skills and man-hours required for creation can be significantly reduced.

[0030]

As described above, the automatic hardware configuration creation apparatus of the present invention can create a hardware configuration table and a configuration diagram for the corresponding hardware simply by inputting the model and the required performance required by the system. , Has the effect that the skill and man-hours required for creation can be significantly reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a hardware configuration automatic creation apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a device configuration table creating operation in the hardware configuration automatic creating apparatus according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of a device configuration diagram creating operation in the hardware configuration automatic creating apparatus according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 4A is a data storage diagram of the device performance data unit 1,
FIG. 3B is a data storage diagram of the device schematic data unit 2.

5A is an input format diagram, FIG. 5B is a diagram showing a configuration table, and FIG. 5C is a format diagram showing a standard configuration diagram format.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Equipment Performance Data Section 2 Equipment Schematic Data Section 3 Input Section 4 Equipment Search Section 5 Table Drawing Section 6 Schematic Diagram Search Section 7 Drawing Section 201-213, 301-309 Flow Chart Steps

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A device type identifier indicating a device type of a device forming a computer system, a device item name specifying performance of a device forming the computer system, and performance data of devices forming the computer system for each device item name. A device performance data storage means for storing the device performance data storage device, a device schematic data storage device for storing schematic data necessary for drawing a corresponding schematic for each device product name, an identifier of a device type requested by the computer system and its Input means for inputting performance specifications, equipment search means for searching equipment name and performance data of the equipment satisfying the performance specifications of the input equipment type from the equipment performance data storage means, and supply from the equipment search means Provided from the device search means and a tabulation means for tabulating the hardware configuration table of the equipment constituting the computer system based on the information stored in the computer system. The schematic diagram searching means for searching the corresponding schematic diagram data from the schematic diagram data storage means according to the equipment item name in the supplied information, and the hardware configuration diagram of the equipment constituting the computer system by the information supplied from the schematic diagram searching means. And a drawing means for drawing. 2. The device schematic data storage means is composed of an index part storing a device item name and an address storing the corresponding schematic data as a set, and a data part storing the schematic data. The hardware configuration automatic creation device according to claim 1.