US 5,432,715 AGranted

Computer system and monitoring method

AssigneesHitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Process Computer Engineering, Inc.

InventorsMari Shigematsu, Teruyasu Nakahashi, Hideki Sato, Keiichi Sannomiya, Kouji Kobayashi, Kazuma Nakao, Hajime Fujimoto, Yasushi Kobayashi

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Abstract

A computer system and monitoring method for efficiently monitoring a plurality of computers interconnected within a network. In this computer network system, each computer has a self-monitoring unit for monitoring its own computer and acquiring a monitor message, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the monitor message to a monitoring computer. Monitor messages transmitted from a plurality of computers are received by the monitoring computer. The monitoring computer has a receiving unit for receiving monitor messages, and a displaying unit for outputting monitor messages to a display. The receiving unit, displaying unit, and display windows on the display are provided for each of a plurality of computers to be monitored.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A computer system comprising:

a plurality of monitored computers each comprising:
self-monitoring means for monitoring a status of the monitored computer to generate a monitor message indicating the monitored status, and
a plurality of monitor message transmitters, each of said plurality of monitor message transmitters receiving the monitor message from said self-monitoring means and transmitting said monitor message;
and
a plurality of monitoring computers each comprising:
a plurality of monitor message receiving means respectively corresponding to said plurality of monitored computers for receiving said monitor messages respectively transmitted from some of said plurality of monitored computers in parallel independently of each other,
self-monitoring means for monitoring a status of the monitoring computer to generate a monitoring computer monitor message,
monitoring computer monitor message transmitting means for receiving the monitoring computer monitor message from said self-monitoring means and transmitting said received monitor message to other ones of said plurality of monitoring computers,
a plurality of monitoring computer monitor message receiving means respectively corresponding to said other ones of said plurality of monitoring computers, for each receiving the monitoring computer monitor message from said monitoring computer monitor message transmitting means of a corresponding one of said plurality of monitoring computers;
and
monitoring means for monitoring said other ones of said plurality of monitoring computers in addition to said plurality of monitored computers in parallel based on the received monitor messages and the received monitoring computer messages.

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A computer system comprising:

a plurality of monitored computers, each of which executes a user program under control of an operating system, each of said plurality of monitored computers comprising:
self-monitoring means for monitoring a status of the monitored computer to generate monitor messages output from the operating system and the user program, wherein said monitor messages are output based on at least one of an execution result of the user program and a hardware failure message,
classifying means for classifying into two types of monitor messages the monitor messages output from the operating system and the monitor messages output from the user program,
first transmitting means for transmitting the monitor messages output from the operating system, and
second transmitting means for transmitting the monitor messages output from the user program;
and
at least one monitoring computer comprising:
a plurality of first receiving means, each of said first receiving means corresponding to one of the first transmitting means of a corresponding one of the monitored computers, each of said first receiving means receiving the monitor messages transmitted from the corresponding first transmitting means,
a plurality of second receiving means each corresponding to some of said second transmitting means corresponding to some of said plurality of monitored computers, each of said plurality of second receiving means receiving the monitored messages transmitted from said second transmitting means of each of said some of said monitored computers, and
display means for displaying the monitor messages received by said first and second receiving means on at least one display unit in parallel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/085,386Filed 29 Jun 1993
Priority: JP 4-17044629 Jun 1992
Granted: 11 Jul 1995
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06F 11/0748
The processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment: in a remote unit communicating with a…
G06F 11/2736
Tester hardware, i.e. output processing circuits: using a dedicated service processor for test
G06F 11/3006
Monitoring arrangements specially adapted to the computing system or computing system component being monitored: where the computing system is…
G06F 11/3055
Monitoring: monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the…