Computer recovery supporting apparatus and method, and computer recovery supporting program

• US 20030084383A1
• Filed: 03/20/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yoshii, Jun, Hasegawa, Toshitaka
• Granted Patent: US 7,062,679 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0715 in a system implementing multitasking multitasking per se G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40

Abstract

A computer recovery supporting apparatus and method, and computer recovery supporting program, in which when a failure occurs in a computer, by executing the recovery processing automatically as much as possible, an inappropriate recovery processing due to human error is prevented from being performed while facilitating the recovery operation.

Claims

1. A computer recovery supporting apparatus, which executes a procedure which specifies a computer recovery procedure by combining a task for activating a local command having a user interface, a task for activating a remote command to be executed in the background, and a task which requires operator operation, comprising:

task execution means for sequentially executing tasks suitable for preset execution conditions, with progress of the procedure; and

abnormal termination means for forcibly terminating said procedure when the local command or the remote command that has been activated by said task is terminated abnormally.

2. A computer recovery supporting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

termination specifying means for, at the time of starting or terminating execution of said task for activating a local command, suspending the progress of said procedure and specifying whether or not said procedure is to be terminated; and

forcible termination means for forcibly terminating said procedure when the termination of the procedure is specified by said termination specifying means.

3. A computer recovery supporting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising progress display means for displaying the progress of said procedure.

4. A computer recovery supporting apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein said progress display means displays the execution condition of said each task in a separate color.

5. A computer recovery supporting apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said task execution means judges the compatibility of said execution conditions based on an execution result of the preceding task.

6. A computer recovery supporting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

first retrieval means for, when a local command cannot be activated depending on said task, retrieving a command having the same name as said local command from another directory;

list display means for displaying a list of commands retrieved by said first retrieval means; and

command activation means for activating a command specified from amongst the list of commands displayed by said list display means.

7. A computer recovery supporting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

second retrieval means for, when a local command cannot be activated depending on said task, retrieving a command having a similar name to said local command;

list display means for displaying a list of commands retrieved by said first retrieval means; and

command activation means for activating a command specified from amongst the list of commands displayed by said list display means.

8. A computer recovery supporting method, which executes a procedure which specifies a computer recovery procedure by combining a task for activating a local command having a user interface, a task for activating a remote command to be executed in the background, and a task which requires operator operation, wherein tasks suitable for preset execution conditions are sequentially executed with progress of the procedure, and when the local command or the remote command that has been activated by said task is terminated abnormally, said procedure is terminated forcibly.

9. A computer recovery supporting method according to claim 8, wherein at the time of starting or terminating execution of said task for activating a local command, the progress of said procedure is suspended and whether or not said procedure is to be terminated is specified, and said procedure is forcibly terminated, when termination of the procedure is specified.

10. A computer recovery supporting method according to claim 8, wherein the progress of said procedure is displayed.

11. A computer recovery supporting program, which executes a procedure which specifies a computer recovery procedure by combining a task for activating a local command having a user interface, a task for activating a remote command to be executed in the background, and a task which requires operator operation, for realizing on a computer:

a task execution function for sequentially executing tasks suitable for preset execution conditions, with progress of the procedure; and

an abnormal termination function for forcibly terminating said procedure when the local command or the remote command which has been activated by said task is terminated abnormally.

12. A computer recovery supporting program according to claim 11, further comprising:

a termination specifying function for, at the time of starting or terminating execution of the task for activating a local command, suspending the progress of said procedure and specifying whether or not said procedure is to be terminated; and

a forcible termination function for forcibly terminating said procedure when the termination of the procedure is specified by said termination specifying function.

13. A computer recovery supporting program according to claim 11, further comprising a progress display function for displaying the progress of said procedure.