US 5,689,416 AGranted

Computer system monitoring apparatus

AssigneeFujitsu Limited

InventorsTakanori Shimizu, Chidori Yoshida, Toshihiro Morimoto

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Abstract

A menu controller displays a menu of failure statuses on a monitor display. The menu controller displays a user select menu by referring to the contents of a user table storage, and controls the display attribute of the user select menu in accordance with the failure status. When a specific user is selected from the user select menu, the menu controller displays a system configuration menu showing the configuration layout of an associated user system by referring to the contents of an I/O table storage, and controls the display attribute of the constituting devices in accordance with the failure status. When a specific constituting device is selected from the system configuration menu, the menu controller displays a device information menu showing detailed information of the selected device, and detailed information.

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Dependent claims

A computer system monitoring apparatus comprising:

status detecting means, provided for each of a plurality of target systems, for detecting an occurrence of a failure and a preventive maintenance, both associated with constituting devices in said computer system, and outputting failure/maintenance information via a transmission system;
system display means for displaying a list of said target systems;
first selecting means for selecting one of said target systems of interest from said target systems displayed by said system display means;
configuration layout display means for generating and displaying a system configuration layout of said one target system selected by said first selecting means;
second selecting means for selecting a constituting device of interest from said system configuration layout displayed by said configuration layout display means;
statistics information display means for generating and displaying statistics information of a history of failure information of said constituting device selected by said second selecting means;
first warning display means for, when informed of an occurrence of a failure satisfying a predetermined condition in a constituting device in a target system based on said failure/maintenance information, indicating an alarm by altering a display attribute of an associated target system name among names of said target systems displayed by said system display means;
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second warning display means for, when informed of an occurrence of a failure satisfying a predetermined condition of a target system based on said failure/maintenance information, indicating an alarm by altering a display attribute of an associated constituting device among individual constituting devices displayed by said configuration layout display means.

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A computer system monitoring apparatus comprising:

status detecting means, provided for each of a plurality of target systems, for detecting an occurrence of a failure and a preventive maintenance, both associated with constituting devices in said computer system, and outputting failure/maintenance information via a transmission system;
system display means for displaying a list of said target systems;
first selecting means for selecting one of said target systems of interest from said target systems displayed by said system display means;
configuration layout display means for generating and displaying a system configuration layout of said target system selected by said first selecting means;
second selecting means for selecting a constituting device of interest from said system configuration layout displayed by said configuration layout display means;
statistics information display means for generating and displaying statistics information of a history of failure information of said constituting device selected by said second selecting means;
first warning display means for indicating an alarm by altering display attributes of names of said target system displayed by said system display means in accordance with levels of failures in said target systems based on said failure/maintenance information;
and
second warning display means for indicating an alarm by altering display attributes of individual constituting devices displayed by said configuration layout display means in accordance with levels of failures in said target systems based on said failure/maintenance information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.