US 9,958,843 B2Granted

System and program for managing management target system

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsKenta Yamasaki, Mariko Miyaki, Yoko Shiga, Tomohiro Morimura

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Abstract

A management system has a topology display screen of a management target system with an area, where icons of system components are typically displayed in the related art, which is embedded and displayed with a graph of a monitor value of the system component. A band having a predetermined width is displayed to show a relation between system display objects indicating the system components. The width of the band is determined by the number of requests which are transmitted or received by the system components. When a time-sequential graph of the monitor value of a system component is displayed, a vertical bar which can be operated by an input/output device is displayed in the graph. When the operation of the vertical bar is detected, an icon indicating integrity of the management target system at a time indicated by the vertical bar is displayed in the vicinity of the vertical bar.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A management system which manages a management target system, comprising:

a storage resource configured to store a management program;
a CPU configured to execute the management program;
and
an input/output device,
wherein the CPU, when the management program is executed, is caused to:
repeatedly receive a plurality of monitor values from a plurality of system components, one or more of the system components monitoring a plurality of items, included in the management target system so as to store a history of the respective monitor values in the storage resource;
display a plurality of system display objects indicating the system components on the input/output device;
display a plurality of relations between the plurality of system display objects indicating the system components, and display a plurality of graphs of the history of the monitor values which have been acquired from the system components indicated by the system display objects on the input/output device, the graphs being displayed on corresponding ones of the system display objects and containing the history of monitor values of one of the system components indicated by one of the system display objects;
detect a first trigger for changing a first graph, which is displayed in a first system display object among the system display objects indicating a first system component among the system components, from a first item to a second item among the plurality of items;
change the display of the first graph from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the first system display object;
select a second system display object among the system display objects indicating a second system component among the system components and relating to the first system component in response to the detection of the first trigger;
change the display of a second graph among the graphs which is displayed in the second system display object from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the second system display object;
detect a second trigger for displaying detailed information of the first system component;
magnify a size of the first system display object by using an animation, and display the detailed information in the magnified first system display object;
and
move a position of the second system display object so as not to be overlapped with the magnified first system display object.

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A method for managing a management target system by a management system, the management system performing the method comprising:

repeatedly receiving a plurality of monitor values from a plurality of system components, one or more of the system components monitoring a plurality of items, included in the management target system so as to store a history of the respective monitor values in the storage resource;
displaying a plurality of system display objects indicating the system components on the input/output device;
displaying a plurality of relations between the plurality of system display objects indicating the system components, and displaying a plurality of graphs of the history of the monitor values which have been acquired from the system components indicated by the system display objects on the input/output device, the graphs being displayed on corresponding ones of the system display objects and containing the history of monitor values of one of the system components indicated by one of the system display objects;
detecting a first trigger for changing a first graph, which is displayed in a first system display object among the system display objects indicating a first system component among the system components, from a first item to a second item among the plurality of items;
changing the display of the first graph from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the first system display object;
selecting a second system display object among the system display objects indicating a second system component among the system components and relating to the first system component in response to the detection of the first trigger;
changing the display of a second graph among the graphs which is displayed in the second system display object from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the second system display object;
detecting a second trigger for displaying detailed information of the first system component;
magnifying a size of the first system display object by using an animation, and display the detailed information in the magnified first system display object in response to the detection of the first trigger in response to the detection of the second trigger;
and
moving a position of the second system display object so as not to be overlapped with the magnified first system display object.

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A management program of a management target system, when executed by a management system which includes a storage resource, a CPU, and an input/output device, the program causing the CPU to perform acts comprising:

repeatedly receiving a plurality of monitor values from a plurality of system components, one or more of the system components monitoring a plurality of items, included in the management target system so as to store a history of the respective monitor values in the storage resource;
displaying a plurality of system display objects indicating the system components on the input/output device;
displaying a plurality of relations between the plurality of system display objects indicating the system components, and displaying a plurality of graphs of the history of the monitor values which have been acquired from the system components indicated by the system display objects on the input/output device, each one of the graphs being displayed on corresponding ones of the system display objects and containing the history of monitor values of one of the system components indicated by one of the system display objects;
detecting a first trigger for changing a first graph, which is displayed in a first system display object among the system display objects indicating a first system component among the system components, from a first item to a second item among the plurality of items;
changing the display of the first graph from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the first system display object;
selecting a second system display object among the system display objects indicating a second system component among the system components and relating to the first system component in response to the detection of the first trigger;
changing the display of a second graph among the graphs which is displayed in the second system display object from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the second system display object;
detecting a second trigger for displaying detailed information of the first system component;
magnifying a size of the first system display object by using an animation, and display the detailed information in the magnified first system display object in response to the detection of the second trigger;
and
moving a position of the second system display object so as not to be overlapped with the magnified first system display object.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/427,653Filed 7 Nov 2012
Published: US 2015/0248119 A13 Sep 2015
Granted: 1 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 11/321
With visual or acoustical indication of the functioning of the machine: display for diagnostics, e.g. diagnostic result display, self-test user…
G05B 15/02
Systems controlled by a computer: electric
H04L 41/069
Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications: using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
H04L 41/5032
Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements: generating service level reports