Management system and management method for creating service

• US 10,223,157 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2014
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kousaka, Kazuya, Akatoki, Hidenori, Hayakawa, Ayumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Brahmachari, Mandrita
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dahir, Bille M
• Application Number:
  US15/125,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20170004007A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system

Abstract

A management system coupled to an operation target system including one or more operation target apparatuses (1) manages a plurality of components each including a component input property and a processing content to be executed based on an input value that is input to the component input property; (2) creates or edits a service template that is associated with one or more components and an execution order and that includes one or more template input properties; (3) receives a designation of a service template and an input value to be input to the template input property; (4) generates, based on the designated input value and the service template, an operation service for executing the processing content included in the component using the designated input value; and (5) executes the generated operation service to operate the operation target apparatus.

Claims

1. A management system, comprising:

an interface device coupled to an operation target system including one or more operation target apparatuses;

a storage resource configured to store a management program; and

a processor configured to execute the management program,

the processor being configured to execute the management program to;

manage a plurality of components, each including a processing content to be executed based on an input value that is input to at least one component input property of each component;

create or edit a service template that is associated with at least component and an execution order and that includes at least one service template input property;

receive a designation of a service template input property and an input value to be input to the service template input property;

generate, based on the designated input value and the service template, an operation service for executing the processing content included in a particular component using the designated input value; and

execute the generated operation service to operate the operation target apparatus,

wherein the processor is further configured to execute the management program to;

store an identifier and a version of the at least one component in the storage resource;

store, as an association between the service template and the at least one component, a correspondence relation between the service template and the identifier and version of the at least one component in the storage resource;

receive a user operation for displaying a correspondence relation between the at least one component and the service template;

specify an identifier and a version of a component to be subjected to the user operation;

select the service template constituted by the component having the specified component identifier and the specified version; and

display an identifier of the selected service template.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to execute the management program to:

store, in the storage resource, customized UI generation information that corresponds to the at least one component input property and that specifies a UI element used for input to the at least one component input property;

manage a correspondence relation between the at least one component input property and the at least one service template input property; and

in order to generate a service creation screen to be displayed when an input value is designated;

determine to display a UI element corresponding to the at least one service template input property on the service creation screen based on the correspondence relation and the customized UI generation information; and

as processing for importing a second component that has the same component identifier as a component identifier of a first component being managed and that has a new version;

maintain a correspondence between the first component and the template that is associated thereto and has been already created before the import, to avoid changing the service creation screen due to the import.

3. The management system according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to execute the management program to:

manage whether a status type of the service template is decided or not;

receive a user operation for designating and editing the service template; and

make a control to deny the user operation or to prevent the user operation from being designated when the status type of the service template is decided.

4. The management system according to claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to execute the management program to:

recognize a part of users as a service template creating user and a service creating user;

permit the service creation by the service creating user for a first type of service template whose status type is decided; and

inhibit the service creation by the service creating user for a second type of service template whose status type is a status other than being decided.

5. The management system according to claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to execute the management program to:

determine, when the customized UI generation information is invalid, a UI element of a corresponding service template input property as a text field.

6. The management system according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to execute the management program to

determine, based on property groups to which a plurality of service template input properties respectively belong, to display one or more UI elements, which respectively correspond to one or more service template input properties belonging to the same property group, collectively on the service creation screen.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer coupled to an operation target system including one or more operation target apparatuses to execute:

managing a plurality of components, each including a processing content to be executed based on an input value that is input to at least one component input property of each component;

creating or editing a service template that is associated with at least one component and an execution order and including at least one service template input property;

receiving a designation of a service template input property and an input value to be input to the service template input property;

generating, based on the designated input value and the service template, an operation service for executing the processing content included in a particular component using the designated input value;

executing the generated operation service to operate the operation target apparatus

storing an identifier and a version of the at least one component in a storage resource;

storing, as an association between the service template and the at least one component, a correspondence relation between the service template and the identifier and version of the at least one component in the storage resource;

receiving a user operation for displaying a correspondence relation between the at least one component and the service template;

specifying an identifier and a version of a component to be subjected to the user operation;

selecting the service template constituted by the component having the specified component identifier and the specified version; and

displaying an identifier of the selected service template.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 7, causing the computer to execute:

storing, in the storage resource, customized UI generation information that corresponds to the at least one component input property and that specifies a UI element used for input to the at least one component input property;

managing a correspondence relation between the component input property and the at least one service template input property;

in order to generate a service creation screen to be displayed when an input value is designated;

determining to display a UI element corresponding to the at least one service template input property on the service creation screen based on the correspondence relation in and the customized UI generation information in; and

as processing for importing a second component that has the same component identifier as a component identifier of a first component being managed and that has a new version;

maintaining a correspondence between the first component and the service template that is associated thereto and has been already created before the import, to avoid changing the service creation screen due to the import.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 8, causing the computer to execute:

managing whether a status type of the service template is decided or not;

receiving a user operation for designating and editing the service template; and

making a control to deny the user operation or to prevent the user operation from being designated when the status type of the service template is decided.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 9, causing the computer to execute:

recognizing a part of users as a service template creating user and a service creating user;

permitting the service creation by the service creating user for a first type of service template whose status type is decided; and

inhibiting the service creation by the service creating user for a second type of service template whose status type is a status other than being decided.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 9, causing the computer to execute determining, when the customized UI generation information is invalid, a UI element of a corresponding service template input property as a text field.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program according to claim 8, causing the computer to execute determining, based on property groups to which a plurality of service template input properties respectively belong, to display one or more UI elements, which respectively correspond to one or more service template input properties belonging to the same property group, collectively on the service creation screen.