JPH10187576A - Resource centralized management system for decentralized client and server - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable the centralized administration of a system which is decentralized and arranged by displaying hardware resources and software resources hierarchically in tree form, and displaying the names of the respective resources and state pilot lamps which shows the operation states of resources in hierarchical relation with the respective resources on the tree. SOLUTION: For example, the state pilot lamps 80a, 80b, 90a, and 90b illuminate in green when attribute values of software resources or hardware resources of respective terminals are within a previously set normal range, in orange when the attribute values are within a warning range, and in red when the attribute values are within a previously set abnormality range. When one of instance bars 8a, 8b, 9a, and 9b is selected with the return key of a keyboard or by the double clicking of a mouse, etc., an information display processing part displays hardware resources and software resources in layers below the terminal corresponding to the selected instance bar 8a, 8b, 9a, or 9b.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for centrally managing a system in which mutually connected clients and servers are distributed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, one personal computer has been assigned to each employee in a company. In response to this, a client-server type system is constructed for each department in the company. It has become.

This system comprises a server terminal for managing various files and a plurality of client terminals for receiving and processing necessary files from the server terminal. According to this system, there is an advantage that the load on the system can be distributed among a plurality of terminals.

In such a system, an application program corresponding to the work of each department is installed, and the hardware resources constituting the system are arbitrarily selected. Therefore, the data format handled by each system differs. Or the handling of the system may be different. For this reason, there arises a problem that the system cannot be handled only by employees in the department.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides a technique for distributing and centrally managing a client and a server so that a client and a client which can be easily handled by a third party. It is an object to provide a server type system.

[0006]

The present invention employs the following means in order to solve the above-mentioned problems. That is,
The distributed client and server resource centralized management system of the present invention comprises: an information collection unit that collects attribute information of hardware resources or software resources that constitute clients and servers connected to each other and distributed; Management tree creating means for classifying the hardware resources or software resources hierarchically, setting links between resources in a hierarchical relationship, and displaying the links in a tree format, Management tree display means for displaying the management tree for each hierarchy, and status indicator light display means for displaying a status indicator light indicating the status of the resource of the hierarchy displayed by the management tree display means or a resource of a hierarchy lower than the resource And displaying the attribute information of the resource of the hierarchy displayed by the management tree display means. And a sex information display means.

Here, the attribute information in the present invention refers to hardware resources such as the name of an operating system (OS), the name of a CPU, the number of CPUs, and the capacity of a hard disk (HD), which constitute a client and a server. And information on software resources such as application programs installed on the client or server. The information on the software resources is, for example, information including the name of the application program, the version of the application program, data describing the outline of the application program, and the like.

Further, the attribute information includes a CPU usage rate, a free space of a hard disk (HD), an operation state of an application program, an operation history of an application program, the number of packets waiting to be output to a network,
Including the size of the virtual memory allocated by the running process, the total size of the page file used by the process, the CPU usage rate of all processes, the number of handles of all processes, the page fault frequency of all processes, etc. Is also good.

The status indicator may indicate, for example, whether an error has occurred in a resource of a hierarchy displayed by the management tree display means or a resource of a hierarchy lower than the resource. The status indicator may change a display color, a display density, or a blinking cycle according to a status of hardware resources or software resources.

The information collecting means may collect attribute information of hardware resources or software resources at regular intervals. In response to this, the management tree creating means may update the display content of the management tree with the attribute information collected at regular intervals.

An application program storing means for storing a plurality of application programs;
An application program installing means for installing an application program requested by a client or a server from the application programs stored in the application program storing means into the client or the server may be further provided.

Further, the application program installation means determines whether or not the installation of the application program has been normally completed based on the attribute information. If the installation of the application program has not been normally completed, the application program installation means is re-installed. It may be installed.

Further, the application program installation means, when the upgraded application program is stored in the application program storage means, installs the upgraded application program on a client or server that uses the application program before the upgrade. You may make it.

[0014] Further, a use status judging means for judging whether or not the client or the server uses the application program according to a predetermined condition based on the attribute information; Security means for restricting use may be further provided.

Further, the information processing apparatus may further include application information providing means for outputting information on the application program stored in the application program storage means to a display device provided in the client or server.

Here, the application program storage means stores, for each application program, information on a client or a server which can use each application program, and the application information providing means stores information on the application program in the application program. May be displayed only on a display device of a client or a server that can use it.

Further, the application program storage means stores, for each application program, information relating to an administrator who manages each application program, and when an abnormality occurs in an application program, informs the administrator of the application program of the occurrence of the abnormality. May be provided.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a centralized management system for a distributed client / server type system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of a centralized management system. In FIG. 1, a centralized management system is connected by a private branch exchange network (LAN: Local Area Network).
Two client terminals 1, two server terminals 2,
It comprises a client terminal 1 and a manager terminal 3 for centrally managing the server terminal 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, the client terminal 1 has a CPU connected to each other by a bidirectional bus.
12, a main memory (MM) 11, and an input / output interface (I / F) 12. The input / output interface (I / F) 12 includes a keyboard 13 and a mouse 1.
4, CRT16, network card (NW card) 1
7 and a hard disk (HD) 18 are connected.

The hard disk (HD) 18 has a CPU
13 is installed with a software program to be executed. This software program is a CD-
It may be provided in a state of being stored in a storage medium such as a ROM, or the manager terminal 3 may be provided via a network.
May also be provided.

Here, the software program is called C
The function realized by the execution of the PU 23 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the functions realized by the software program and the CPU 13 are a resource monitoring processing unit 100 and an installation processing unit 11.
0, the resource information transmission processing unit 120, and the information display processing unit 1
30, an application information acquisition unit 140, a request reception processing unit 150, and a start / stop processing unit 160. Hereinafter, these processing units 100 to 160 will be sequentially described.

<Resource Monitoring Processing Unit 100> The resource monitoring processing unit 100 is started at the time of booting the client terminal 1 and at regular intervals thereafter, and provides the attributes and attribute values of the hardware resources and software resources constituting the client terminal 1. And writes these attributes and attribute values to the main storage (MM) 21.

The attribute referred to here is the client terminal 1
Operating system (OS) name, CPU name, number of CPUs, hard disk (H
D) data relating to hardware resources such as the capacity and information relating to software resources such as application programs installed in the client terminal 1. The information on the software resources is, for example,
This is information including the name of the application program, the version of the application program, data describing the outline of the application program, and the like.

The attribute values according to the present embodiment include the CPU usage rate, the free capacity of the hard disk (HD), the number of packets waiting to be output to the network, and the virtual memory secured by the process in the activated state. It refers to the size, the total size of the page file used by the process, the CPU usage rate of all processes, the number of handles of all processes, the page fault frequency of all processes, the operation state of application programs, the operation history of application programs, and the like.

The operation history of the application program indicates, for example, the number of times the application program has been started, the number of times the application program has been copied, the number of times the application program has been installed, and the like.

Here, the normal range, the warning range, and the abnormal range of the attribute value are set in the main storage device (MM) 11 in advance, and the resource monitoring processing unit 100 determines that the attribute value of each resource is normal. Whether it is within the range, within the warning range, or within the abnormal range can be determined. Then, the resource monitoring processing unit 100 determines whether the attribute value of each resource has changed from the normal range to the warning range, from the warning range to the normal range, from the warning range to the abnormal range, or from the abnormal range to the warning range. An alarm is output when the value changes to or when the value changes from the abnormal range to the normal range.

<Application Information Acquisition Unit 140> The application information acquisition unit 140 communicates with the manager terminal 3 via the network card 17 when the software program is started, so that the application program Get information about

The information on the application program includes, for example, the name of the application program,
The data includes a version of the application program, data describing an outline of the application program, and the like.

<Information Display Processing Unit 130> The information display processing unit 130 stores the information (name, version, data describing the outline, etc.) regarding the application program acquired by the application information acquisition unit 140 into C
Display on RT16.

Here, the screen displayed on the CRT 16 is
For example, as shown in FIG. 4, a menu bar 400, a toolbar 410, and an application display area 420
And the application display area 42
In 0, an icon 430 of an application program that can be used by the client terminal 1 and a name of the application program are displayed.

The shape of the icon 430 differs between an icon that has been installed on the hard disk (HD) 18 and an icon that has not been installed yet. continue,
When the user clicks an arbitrary icon 430 with the mouse 14, the information display processing unit 130 displays the icon 430
And information including data describing the name of the application program, the version of the application program, and the outline of the application program.

<Installation Processing Unit 110> The installation processing unit 110 is activated when a user who has referred to the application program information displayed on the CRT 16 inputs a use request command for an arbitrary application program with the keyboard 13 or the mouse 14. You. Then, the installation processing unit 110 communicates with the manager terminal 3 via the network card 17,
An installation request for an application program targeted by the use request command is transmitted.

When the main body of the application program is transmitted from the manager terminal 3, the installation processing section 110 installs the application program on the hard disk (HD) 18.

The installation processing unit 110 is also activated by an interrupt command from the manager terminal 3,
Install new application programs. <Resource information transmission processing unit 120> Resource information transmission processing unit 12
0 is activated when the client terminal 1 is booted and at regular intervals thereafter, and the attributes and attribute values of the hardware or software resources stored in the main storage device (MM) 11 are transferred to the manager via the network card 17. Send to terminal 3.

The resource information transmission processing unit 120 is started together with the resource monitoring processing unit 100 when an interrupt command is issued by the manager terminal 3, and transmits the attributes and attribute values acquired by the resource monitoring processing unit 100 to the network card. 17 to the manager terminal 3.

Further, the resource information transmission processing unit 120 is also activated when the resource monitoring processing unit 100 outputs an alarm, and outputs the attribute and attribute value of the resource that caused the alarm via the network card 17. Transmit to the manager terminal 3.

<Start / Stop Processing Unit 160> The start / stop processing unit 160 responds to a request from the manager terminal 3
It stops the running application program, restarts the stopped application program, or starts the application program.

<Request reception processing unit 150> The request reception processing unit 150 receives various requests from the manager terminal 3 by communicating with the manager terminal 3 via the network card 17, and in accordance with the received request, The monitoring processing unit 100, the resource information transmission processing unit 120, the installation processing unit 110, or the start / stop processing unit 160 is started.

For example, upon receiving a resource information transmission request from the manager terminal 3, the request reception processing section 150 receives the resource monitoring processing section 100 and the resource information transmission processing section 1.
Start 20. Upon receiving a request to install a new application program from the manager terminal 3, the request reception processing unit 150 activates the installation processing unit 110. Further, the request reception processing unit 150
Starts the start / stop processing unit 160 upon receiving a command to start the application program, a command to stop the application program, or a command to restart the application program from the manager terminal 3. Next, the server terminal 2 will be described with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 5, the server terminal 2 has a CPU 22, a main memory (MM) 21, and an input / output interface (I / F) interconnected by a bidirectional bus.
22. Then, the input / output interface (I
/ F) 22 includes a keyboard 23, a mouse 24, a CRT
26, a network card (NW card) 27, and
A hard disk (HD) 28 is connected.

A software program to be executed by the CPU 23 is installed in the hard disk (HD) 28, similarly to the client terminal 1 described above. Here, functions realized by the CPU 23 executing the software program will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 6, the functions realized by the software program and the CPU 23 are a resource monitoring processing unit 200, an installation processing unit 210, a resource information transmission processing unit 220, an information display processing unit 230, Application information acquisition unit 240 and request reception processing unit 2
50, and a start / stop processing unit 260. These processing units 200, 210, 220, 230, 240,
The functions of 250 and 260 correspond to the client terminal 1 described above.
Resource monitoring processing unit 100, installation processing unit 110,
Resource information transmission processing unit 120, information display processing unit 130, application information acquisition unit 140, request reception processing unit 15
0, the same as the respective functions of the start / stop processing unit 160, and the description is omitted. Next, the manager terminal 3 will be described with reference to FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 7, the manager terminal 3
It has a CPU 30, a main memory (MM) 31, and an input / output interface (I / F) 32 interconnected by a bidirectional bus. The input / output interface (I / F) 32 includes a keyboard 33 and a mouse 3.
4, CRT 36, network card (NW card) 3
7, and the hard disk HD38 are connected.

The hard disk HD 38 has the CP
A management program to be executed by U30 is installed. The management program may be provided in a state of being stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM. If a manager terminal higher than the manager terminal 1 exists, the management program is provided from the manager terminal via a communication line. You may make it.

The CPU 30 realizes a function of centrally managing the client terminal 1 and the server terminal 2 by executing a management program stored in the hard disk HD 38. Here, the centralized management function will be described with reference to FIG. 8. As shown in FIG. 8, the centralized management function includes an information collection processing unit 300, an operation state determination processing unit 310, a remote control processing unit 320, It is divided into a processing unit 330, an information display processing unit 340, an application registration processing unit 350, and a request reception processing unit 360, and these functions will be sequentially described below.

<Information Collection Processing Unit 300> The information collection processing unit 300 includes the resource monitoring processing units 100 and 200 and the resource information transmission processing unit 12 of the client terminal 1 and the server terminal 2.
By controlling 0 and 220, an information collecting unit according to the present invention is realized.

Then, the information collection processing unit 300 communicates with the client terminal 2 or the server terminal 1 via the network card 37, and transmits a transmission request for resource information. When resource information (attributes and attribute values of hardware resources or software resources) is transmitted from the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 in response to the transmission request, the resource information is received via the network card 37. Then, the data is written to the main storage device (MM) 31.

The information collection processing unit 300 is activated when a command for displaying information on the server terminal 1 or the client terminal 2 under the control of the manager terminal 3 is input by the keyboard 33 or the mouse 34 and at regular intervals. Is done.

Note that the information collection processing unit 300 may collect only information on software resources or hardware resources selected in advance. <Operation state determination processing section 310> Operation state determination processing section 31
0 implements the use state determining means according to the present invention, and refers to the attributes and attribute values stored in the main storage device (MM) 31 to refer to the hardware resources of the client terminal 1 and the server terminal 2. And the software resources are grasped, and the operation state of each resource is determined.

As a method of determining the operation states of the hardware resources and the software resources, the information collection processing unit 30
A method for determining whether or not the attribute value collected by 0 is within a preset range can be exemplified.

<Remote Control Processing Unit 320> The remote control processing unit 320 is installed in the client terminal 1 and the server terminal 2,
By controlling 0, the application program installing means according to the present invention is realized, and the application control means and the application information providing means are realized.

The remote control processing unit 320 converts the information of the application program (name, version, data describing the outline, etc.) stored in a database (not shown) into a client terminal authorized to use the application program. 1 or a process of transmitting the main body of the application program requested by the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 to the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 via the network card 37. ,
A process of transmitting a start / stop / operation restart request of an application program installed in the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 to the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 via the network card 37 is performed. <Security processing unit 330> Security processing unit 33
0 restricts the start / stop / operation restart processing of the application program of the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 by the remote control processing unit 320. This restriction means that, for example, an application program that cannot be controlled by the remote control processing unit 320 is determined in advance for each client terminal 1 or server terminal 2, and the processing of the remote control processing unit 320 for the application program is suppressed. It is to be.

<Application Registration Processing Unit 350> The application registration processing unit 350 performs registration processing of an application program that can be used in each client terminal 1 and each server terminal 2.

For example, the application registration processing unit 35
0 displays an application registration screen as shown in FIG. The application registration screen includes an application name input section 50, a department name input section 51, a person in charge name input section 52, a user name registration section 53,
Description input unit 54, AP component input unit 55, DB
Component input unit 56, client component input unit 57, component configuration change button 58, O
A K button 59 and a cancel button 60 are displayed.

The application name input section 50 is an area for inputting the name of an application to be registered. When the user inputs an appropriate name using the keyboard 33, the name is displayed.

The department name input section 51 is an area for inputting the name of the department in charge of managing the application, and the input procedure is the same as that of the application name described above. The person in charge input section 52 is an area for inputting the name of the person in charge of managing the application.

The user registration section 53 is an area in which the names and domain names of user groups who can use the application are displayed. When registering a new target user in the target user registration unit 53 or changing the target user, the user clicks the target user change button 61 with the mouse 34. When the user change button 61 is clicked, the application registration processing unit 350 displays a use target setting dialog box as shown in FIG.

The dialog box for setting the target user includes a domain name input section 62 and an authority group name list 6
3. A target user input section 64, an add button 65, a delete button 66, an OK button 67, and a cancel button 68 are displayed.

The domain name input section 62 is an area for inputting the domain name of the target user, and displays the domain name input by the user using the keyboard 33. The authority group name list 63 displays a list of user group names corresponding to the domain name input to the domain name input unit 62.

The user input section 64 is an area for inputting a user group name and a domain name permitted to use the application. When inputting a user group name in the target user input section 64, the user moves the cursor to an arbitrary user group name among the user group names displayed in the authority group name list 63, and clicks the add button. Click 65 with the mouse 34.
As a result, the user group name is displayed on the target user input section 64.

On the other hand, when deleting the user group name input to the target user input section 64, the user
The user positions the cursor on an arbitrary user group name among the user group names displayed on the target user input section 64 and clicks the delete button 66 with the mouse 65. As a result, the user group name is deleted from the target user input section 64.

Here, returning to FIG.
Is an area for inputting data describing the outline of the application, and is input by the user using the keyboard 33.

The AP component input section 55 is an area for inputting the name and version of a server program other than the database among the programs constituting the application. This AP component input unit 55
The user clicks the component configuration change button 58 with the mouse 34 when inputting an arbitrary program into the. At this time, the application registration processing unit 35
0 indicates that the used component setting dialog box is displayed on the CRT 36
To be displayed.

In the used component setting dialog, three tabs including an AP component tab, a DB component tab, and a client component tab are displayed. When the user selects the AP component tab, the application registration processing unit 350 executes the process shown in FIG. Is displayed on the CRT 36 as shown in FIG.

The used component setting dialog for the application server program includes three tabs including an AP component tab 69, a DB component tab 70, and a client component tab 71; a manager computer list 72; a computer list 73; A server program list 74, an add button 75, a delete button 76,
AP component registration unit 77 and option setting unit 7
8 is displayed.

The manager computer list 72 is an area for displaying the names of computers used as manager terminals one by one. Computer list 73
Is an area in which the names of all the computers managed by the manager computer having the name displayed in the manager computer list 72 are displayed one by one. When the name of the manager computer displayed in the manager computer list 72 is changed, the contents of the computer list 73 are also changed.

The application server program list 74 is an area for displaying the names of all application server programs installed on the computers displayed in the computer list 73 and the versions of the respective application server programs.

The AP component registration unit 77 stores the name and version of the application server program constituting the application, the name of the computer on which the application server program is installed, and the name of the manager computer managing this computer. Is an area for registering.

Here, the AP component registration unit 7
When registering an arbitrary application server program in the application server program 7, the user positions the cursor on an arbitrary application server program among the application server programs displayed in the application server program list 74, and presses the add button 75 with the mouse 34.
Click by. At this time, the application registration processing unit 340 stores the name of the application server program, the name of the computer on which the application server program is installed, and the name of the manager computer that manages the computer in the AP component registration unit 77. indicate.

The AP component registration unit 77
To delete an application server program registered in the application server program, the user positions the cursor on the application server program to be deleted in the AP component registration unit 77 and clicks the delete button 76 with the mouse 34. At this time, the application registration processing unit 340 deletes the application server program from the AP component registration unit 77.

The option setting section 78 is an area for setting optional functions associated with an arbitrary application server program. The optional functions include, for example,
As shown in FIG. 18, an item for specifying a name of an application server program to which an optional function is to be added, an item for specifying a required optional section of the application server program, and an item for specifying a shared exclusive section of the application server program And an item that specifies an initial startup category of the application server program, an item that specifies a pre-start component of the application server program, and an item that specifies a validity period of the application server program.

The item of the mandatory option category is an item for designating whether or not the application server program is a component that is always started when the application is running.

The item of the sharing exclusive category is an item for designating whether or not the application server program is a component used in an application other than the application.

The item of the initial start category is an item for designating whether or not the application server program is a component to be started when the application is started.

The item of the preceding starting component is an item for designating an application server program to be started before the application server program.

The item of the effective period is an item for designating a period in which the application server program can be used, and is divided into an item of a start date and time and an item of an end date and time of the period. Here, returning to FIG. 16, the DB component input unit 56 is an area for inputting a name of a database constituting the application, a name of a database server program for managing the database, and a version of the database server program.
To input an arbitrary database to the DB component input unit 56, the user clicks the component configuration change button 58 with the mouse 34. At this time, the application registration processing unit 350 displays a used component setting dialog on the CRT 36.

In the used component setting dialog, three tabs including an AP component tab, a DB component tab, and a client component tab are displayed. When the user selects the DB component tab, the application registration processing unit 350 executes the process shown in FIG. Is displayed on the CRT 36 as shown in FIG.

In the used component setting dialog for the database, the manager computer list 7 is displayed.
2, a computer list 73, a database server program list 40, a database list 41,
An add button 75, a delete button 76, a DB component registration unit 42, and an option setting unit 43 are displayed.

The manager computer list 72, the computer list 73, the add button 75, and the delete button 76 are the same as those in the screen of FIG. The database server program list 40 is an area for displaying the names of all database server programs currently running on the computer displayed on the computer list 73 and the versions of the respective database server programs.

The database list 41 is an area for displaying the names of all databases managed by the database server program having the name where the cursor is located in the database server program list 40. The DB component registration unit 42 includes a name of a database constituting the application, a name of a database server program for managing the database, a version of the database server program, and a name of a computer on which the database server program is running. Area for registering the name of the manager computer that manages this computer.

Here, the DB component registration unit 4
When registering any database in 2, the user:
The cursor is moved to an arbitrary database name among the database names displayed in the database list 41, and the add button 75 is clicked with the mouse. At this time, the application registration processing unit 340
The name of the database, the name of the database server program that manages this database, the version of the database server program, the name of the computer on which the database server program is running, and the name of the manager computer that manages this computer Is displayed on the DB component registration unit 42.

The DB component registration unit 42
When deleting an arbitrary database from among the databases registered in the database, the user positions the cursor on the name of the database to be deleted in the DB component registration unit 42 and clicks the delete button 76 with the mouse 34. At this time, the application registration processing unit 340 stores information on the database in the DB.
It is deleted from the component registration unit 42.

The option setting section 43 is an area for setting optional functions associated with an arbitrary database.
The optional function is, for example, as shown in FIG.
An item for specifying a name of a database for which an optional function is to be set; an item for specifying a required option section of the database; an item for specifying a shared exclusive section of the database; and initial startup of a database server program for managing the database. An item to specify the category,
The database server program is divided into an item for designating a preceding activation component and an item for designating a validity period of the database.

The item of the essential option category is an item for designating whether or not the database is a component that is always started when the application runs. The item of the sharing exclusive category is an item that specifies whether or not the database is a component used in an application other than the application.

The item of the initial start category is an item for designating whether or not the database server program for managing the database is a component started when the application is started.

The item of the preceding starting component is an item for specifying a database server program to be started before the database server program for managing the database.

The item of the validity period is an item for designating a usable period of the database, and is divided into an item of a start date and time and an item of an end date and time of the period. Next, in FIG. 16, the client component input unit 57 is an area for inputting the name and version of a program (hereinafter, referred to as a client program) started on the client terminal 1 among the programs constituting the application. To input an arbitrary client program into the client component input section 57, the user clicks the component configuration change button 58 with the mouse 34. At this time, the application registration processing unit 350 displays a used component setting dialog on the CRT 36.

The used component setting dialog displays three tabs, an AP component tab, a DB component tab, and a client component tab. When the user selects the client component tab, the application registration processing unit 35
0 displays a used component setting dialog for the client program as shown in FIG.

The use component setting dialog for the client program includes a client program list 44, an add button 75, and a delete button 76.
, A client component registration unit 45 and an option setting unit 46 are displayed.

The add button 75 and the delete button 76
Is the same as the screen of FIG. 18 described above. The client program list 44 is an area for displaying names, versions, and registration dates and times of all client programs installed in the manager terminal 3.

Client component registration unit 45
Is an area for registering the name, version, and registration date and time of the client program constituting the application.

Here, when registering an arbitrary client program in the client component registration section 45, the user must enter the client program list 44
Move the cursor to the name of any client program among the client program names displayed in
The add button 75 is clicked with the mouse 34.
As a result, the application registration processing unit 340 displays the name, the version, and the registration date and time of the client program on the client component registration unit 45.

To delete an arbitrary client program from the client programs registered in the client component registration section 45, the user moves the cursor to the name of the client program to be deleted in the client component registration section 45. Then, the delete button 76 is clicked with the mouse 34. As a result, the application registration processing unit 3
40 deletes information on the client program from the client component registration unit 42.

The option setting section 46 is an area for setting an optional function associated with an arbitrary client program. For example, as shown in FIG. 20, the optional function includes an item for specifying a name of a client program to which the optional function is to be added, an item for specifying a sharing exclusive category of the client program, and a parameter (argument) of the client program. ) And an item for specifying the validity period of the client program.

The item of the sharing exclusive category is an item for designating whether or not the client program is a component used in an application other than the application.

The item of the effective period is an item for designating a period during which the client program can be used, and is divided into an item of the start date and time and an item of the end date and time of the period.

<Request Reception Processing Unit 360> The request reception processing unit 360 receives a request from the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2 via the network card 37. The request is, for example, an application program installation request from the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2. The request reception processing unit 360 that has received the request activates the remote control processing unit 320 to execute the client terminal 1 or the The main body of the application program requested by the server terminal 2 is transmitted to the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2.

<Information Display Processing Unit 340> The information display processing unit 340 implements a management tree creation unit, a management tree display unit, an attribute information display unit, and a status indicator display unit according to the present invention. The manager terminal 3 is referred to with reference to the attribute and the attribute value stored in the storage device (MM) 31.
The hardware resources and software resources of the client / server type system under the management of the above are hierarchized, and a character string representing the hierarchized resource name and a resource corresponding to each character string of each character string or a lower order of the resource It is formed from a bar that visually surrounds a status indicator that indicates whether an abnormality has occurred in the resource, and a line that visually connects each of the bars in the same hierarchy and between the bars in a hierarchical relationship. Create a management tree. Then, the information display processing unit 340 displays the created management tree on the CRT 36.

First, the information display processing section 340 displays a screen including a toolbar 4, a tree display area 5, a detailed information display area 6, and a status change notification display area 7, as shown in FIG. I do.

The tree display area 5 is an area for displaying the management tree. In the example of FIG. 4, the tree display area 5 displays a first management tree showing only the resource of the highest layer.

The first management tree is divided into a server terminal class and a client terminal class. An icon 800 indicating a manager terminal class, an icon 9 indicating a client terminal class, an icon 8 indicating a server terminal class, Two instance bars 9a, 9b including the name and status indicators 90a, 90b of each of the two terminals 1 that are located under the icon 9 and classified into the client terminal class, and located under the icon 8 It is formed from two instance bars 8a and 8b including the name and status display lamps 80a and 80b of each of the two terminals 2 classified into the server terminal class, and a line visually connecting these.

Each of the instance bars 8a, 8b, 9
a and 9b indicate terminal names and status indicators 8 of the terminals 1 and 2 respectively.
0a, 80b, 90a, 90b, and each terminal 1, 2
Bar graphs 81a, 81b, 9 showing the CPU usage rate of
1a, 91b and bar graphs 82a, 82b, 92a, 92 showing the usage rate of the hard disk HD of each terminal 1, 2.
b.

The status indicators 80a, 80b, 90a,
90b is lit green if the attribute values of the software resources or hardware resources of the terminals 1 and 2 are within a preset normal range, and is lit orange if the attribute values are within a warning range. However, if the attribute value is in a predetermined abnormal range, the operation state may be represented by a color such that the light is illuminated in red if the attribute value is in a preset abnormal range and is illuminated in black when the terminal is in a stopped state. The operation state may be indicated by the above.

On the screen shown in FIG. 9, when the cursor is moved to any one of the four instance bars 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, the instance bar 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b where the cursor is located is displayed. Detailed information of the corresponding terminal is displayed in the detailed information area 6.

The information displayed in the detailed information area 6 is displayed for each item, and each item includes, for example, an attribute name, an attribute value, and a date and time when the attribute value was updated. Further, a warning light 6a is displayed on the left side of the attribute name to indicate whether the attribute value of each item is normal or not by a color.
For example, the warning light 6a lights up in green if the attribute value is normal, and lights up in red if the attribute value is abnormal.

Next, when a status change occurs in the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2, that is, from the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2, the status of the software resource or the hardware resource is displayed in the status change notification display area 7. When a signal indicating that the state has been changed is transmitted, the content and the time at which the state was changed are displayed. The change of the state here means occurrence of an abnormal state, recovery from the abnormal state to a normal state, and the like.

Subsequently, the instance bars 8a, 8
When any one of b, 9a, and 9b is selected by the return key of the keyboard 33 or the double click of the mouse 34, the information display processing unit 340 causes the terminal corresponding to the selected instance bar 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b to be displayed. 1,
The hardware resources and software resources of the lower layer of the second layer are displayed in a tree shape. FIG. 10 shows an example of this display screen.

FIG. 10 shows a screen displayed when the instance bar 9a is selected from the instance bars 9a and 9b of the two server terminals 2 displayed on the screen of FIG. 9 described above. In the tree display area 5, below the selected instance bar 9a, an icon 900 indicating a class of software resources and hardware resources constituting the server terminal 2 is displayed. This class includes, for example, an “AP server program” class, a “client program” class, an “NT standard service” class,
"Task" class, "Display" class, "Motherboard" class, "Drive" class, "Physical disk" class, "CD-ROM" class, "Keyboard"
Classes are classified into classes, “mouse” classes, “network card” classes, and so on.

Here, when the cursor is moved to one of the icons 900, the resources classified into the class of the icon 900 are displayed in a tree shape. For example, the icon 11 of the “AP server program” class in FIG.
When the cursor is moved upward, as shown in FIG.
A status indicator 1200a indicating the status of the software resources classified into the "AP server program" class, and an instance bar 1200 indicating the name and version name of the software resource are displayed. In response to this, the information display processing unit 340 displays the detailed information of the resource belonging to the class where the cursor is located in the detailed information display area 6.

Next, when the cursor is moved to one of the instance bars 1200, the information display processing unit 3
As shown in FIG. 12, the icon 40 displays an icon 1200b indicating a class of a lower resource (for example, data or a file constituting software) of the software resource corresponding to the instance bar 1200 where the cursor is located. This class includes, for example, a “write file” class, a “read file” class, a “configuration parameter” class, a “configuration process” class, an “error log” class,
It is divided into "Warning log" class, "Information log" class and so on.

Subsequently, when the instance bar 1200 where the cursor is located is selected by the return key of the keyboard 33 or the double-click of the mouse 34, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, below the icon 1200b of each class, a status indicator 1200c indicating the status of a resource below the resource corresponding to the instance bar 1200, an instance bar 1200d indicating the name of the resource, the type of the resource, etc.
Is displayed in a tree shape. The tree in FIG. 12 is the lowest layer tree.

Then, the instance bar 1200d
When the cursor is moved to one of the items and selected by the return key of the keyboard or double-clicking of the mouse, as shown in FIGS. 14 and 15, a dialog box showing information on the attribute value of the resource corresponding to the selected instance bar 1200d is displayed. 1300 and 1400 are displayed.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the client terminal 1 and the server terminal 2 constituting the client / server system can be centrally managed by the manager terminal 3.

Furthermore, when an error occurs in the client terminal 1 or the server terminal 2, the user of the manager terminal 3 must follow the hierarchically displayed management tree as shown in FIGS. Thereby, the location (resource) where the abnormality has occurred can be easily grasped, and the resource where the abnormality has occurred and the cause of the abnormality can be grasped by a simple operation.

On the other hand, in the client terminal 1 and the server terminal 2, a desired application program is automatically installed by the manager terminal 3, so that the operation can be easily performed even by a non-expert.

Here, in the above embodiment, the case where one client / server system is managed has been described. However, when managing a plurality of client / server systems, as shown in FIG. A first client-server system A arranged in “Section 1”, a second client-server system B arranged in “Section 2”, and a third client server system B arranged in “Section 3”. A first manager terminal 1a, a second manager terminal 1b,
The third manager terminal 1c may be assigned to each, and a manager terminal 1e for centrally managing these three manager terminals 1a, 1b, 1c may be provided. Thereby, a plurality of client / server systems can be centrally managed.

[0118]

According to the present invention, it is possible to grasp the hardware configuration and software configuration of a distributed client / server system, and to collectively manage the operating states of hardware resources and software resources. Can be.

The hardware and software resources of the client / server type system are displayed hierarchically in a tree format, and the resource name of each resource and the status display light indicating the operation status of the resource having a hierarchical relationship with each resource. By displaying on the tree, the user can recognize the abnormality that has occurred in the resource of the lower layer by looking at the screen of the uppermost layer, and sequentially display the screen of the lower layer from the screen of the uppermost layer. By tracing, the resource in which the abnormality has occurred and the cause of the abnormality can be specified.

Further, the system of the present invention can install an application program requested by a user from a manager side to a client / server type system from the manager side, so that even a third party or a beginner can use the client / server type system. Can operate the system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a centralized management system of a client / server type system.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of a client terminal.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a client terminal by function.

FIG. 4 is an example of a screen displayed on a CRT of a client terminal.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of a server terminal.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a server terminal by function.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a manager terminal.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a manager terminal by function.

FIG. 9 is a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (1).

FIG. 10 shows a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (2).

FIG. 11 shows a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (3).

FIG. 12 is a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (4).

FIG. 13 shows a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (5).

FIG. 14 shows a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (6).

FIG. 15 shows a specific example of a screen displaying a management tree (4).

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an application registration screen.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a setting screen for a target user.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a setting screen of an application program component.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a setting screen of a database component.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a setting screen of a client program.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing another embodiment of a centralized management system of a client-server type system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, client terminal 2, server terminal 3, manager terminal 8a, instance bar 8b, instance bar 9a, instance bar 9b, instance bar 80a, status indicator 80b, status indicator 90a, Status indicator 90b status indicator 100 resource monitoring processor 110 installation processor 120 resource information transmission processor 130 information display processor 140 application information acquisition unit 150 request reception processing Section 160 start-up / stop processing section 200 resource monitoring processing section 210 installation processing section 220 resource information transmission processing section 230 information display processing section 240 application information acquisition section 250 request reception processing Unit 260: Start / stop processing unit 300: Information collection unit 310: Operation State determination processing unit 320 ... remote control unit 330 .. security processing unit 340 ... information display processing unit 350 ... application registration processing unit 360 ... request reception processing unit

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Kouji Akabane 2-7-24 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Toyo Information System Tokyo Head Office (72) Inventor Ken Ken 2-4-2, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo No. Toyo Information System Tokyo Head Office (72) Inventor Miki Aburaya 2-7-24 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Tokyo Incorporated Toyo Information System Tokyo Headquarters (72) Inventor Maki Kano 2-chome, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo No. 24 Toyo Information System Tokyo Head Office (72) Inventor Tomohisa Hirami 2-7-24 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Tokyo Incorporated Toyo Information System Tokyo Headquarters (72) Inventor Takahiro Ogawa Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 2-7-224 Toyo Information System Tokyo Head Office (72) Inventor Takehiko Maruyama Central Tokyo 2-7-24 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku Toyo Information Systems Tokyo Head Office (72) Inventor Takayoshi Kikuyama 2-7-24 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Toyo Information Systems Tokyo Headquarters (72) Inventor Satoko Hiroto 2-7-24 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Toyo Information System Tokyo Head Office

Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. An information collecting means for collecting attribute information of hardware resources or software resources constituting clients and servers connected to each other and distributed, and said hardware resources or software resources are hierarchized based on said attribute information. Management tree creating means for setting a link between resources in a hierarchical relationship and displaying the link in a tree format; and a management tree for displaying the management tree created by the management tree creating means for each hierarchy. Display means; status indicator light display means for displaying a status indicator light indicating the status of the resource of the hierarchy displayed in the management tree display means or the resource of a hierarchy lower than the resource; and Attribute information display means for displaying attribute information of a resource of a hierarchical level, and a distributed client comprising: Fine-server resource centralized management system of. 2. The status indicator according to claim 1, further comprising: a display color corresponding to a status of the hardware resource or the software resource.
The distributed client and server resource centralized management system according to claim 1, wherein the display density or the blinking cycle changes. 3. The information collection means collects attribute information of the hardware resource or the software resource at regular intervals, and the management tree creating means computes the management tree based on the attribute information collected at regular intervals. 2. The resource centralized management system for distributed clients and servers according to claim 1, wherein the display contents are updated. 4. An application program storage means for storing a plurality of application programs, and an application program requested by the client or server is installed in the client or server from among the application programs stored in the application program storage means. The distributed client and server resource centralized management system according to claim 1, further comprising an application program installation unit. 5. The application program installation means determines from the attribute information whether or not the installation of the application program has been completed normally. If the installation of the application program has not been completed normally, the application program installation means 5. The distributed client and server resource centralized management system according to claim 4, wherein the program is installed again. 6. The application program installation means, wherein when the upgraded application program is stored in the application program storage means, the application program after the version upgrade is provided to a client or server that uses the application program before the upgrade. 5. The centralized resource management system for distributed clients and servers according to claim 4, wherein: 7. A use status determination unit that determines whether the client or server uses an application program according to a predetermined condition from the attribute information, and if the use status does not satisfy the predetermined condition, 5. The distributed client and server resource centralized management system according to claim 4, further comprising application control means for restricting use of said application program. 8. The distributed information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising application information providing means for outputting information on the application program stored in said application program storage means to a display device provided in said client or server. Centralized resource management system for client and server. 9. A first procedure for collecting attribute information of hardware resources and software resources constituting a client or a server, and a hierarchical structure of hardware resources or software resources constituting the client and the server based on the attribute information. A second procedure for setting a link between resources in hierarchical relation and creating a management tree representing the link in a tree format, and a third procedure for displaying the management tree for each hierarchy. A fourth procedure of displaying a status indicator indicating the status of the resource of the hierarchy displayed in the third procedure or the resource of a lower hierarchy than the resource; and the resource of the hierarchy displayed in the third procedure. A storage medium storing a program comprising: a fifth procedure for displaying attribute information of; 10. A sixth step of reading an application program requested by the client or server from the application programs stored in the application program storage means and installing the read application program in the client or server. The storage medium according to claim 9. 11. The sixth procedure includes: a step of determining whether or not the installation of the application program is normally completed based on the attribute information; and a step of determining whether or not the installation of the application program is normally completed. The storage medium according to claim 10, further comprising a step of installing the application program again. 12. The method according to claim 6, wherein when the upgraded application program is stored in the application program storage unit, the upgraded application program is transmitted to a client or a server that uses the application program before the upgrade. The storage medium according to claim 10, further comprising a step of installing the storage medium. 13. A seventh procedure for judging whether or not the client or server uses an application program according to a predetermined condition based on the attribute information, and if the use situation does not satisfy the predetermined condition, The storage medium according to claim 10, further comprising: an eighth procedure for restricting use of the application program. 14. The storage medium according to claim 10, further comprising a ninth step of outputting information on the application program stored in said application program storage means to a display device provided in said client or server.