Network integrated management system

• US 20030126221A1
• Filed: 01/10/2003
• Published: 07/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Gotoh, Tomonori, Tanaka, Katsumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,467,199 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/026 using e-messaging for transporting management information, e.g. email, instant messaging or chat
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail

Abstract

A network integrated management system transferring monitor/control information by e-mail using the Internet (40) between a monitor/control apparatus (50) having a network (14) to be monitored and controlled under it and a network integrated management apparatus (30) integratedly managing the network through the monitor/control apparatus.

Claims

1. A network integrated management system comprised of:

at least one monitor/control apparatus having a network to be monitored and controlled under it,

at least one network integrated management apparatus integratedly managing said network through said monitor/control apparatus, and

an Internet interface which transfers monitor/control information between said monitor/control apparatus and said network integrated management apparatus over the Internet.

2. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said network integrated management apparatus issues a control command as the monitor/control information to said monitor/control apparatus, and the monitor/control apparatus controls said network under it in accordance with said control command.

3. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said network integrated management apparatus issues a control command as said monitor/control information to said monitor/control apparatus, and the monitor/control apparatus controls the network under it in accordance with the control command, collects the results of processing from said network, and notifies the collected information to said network integrated management apparatus.

4. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said network integrated management apparatus issues a collection command instructing collection of status information showing the state of said network as said monitor/control information to said monitor/control apparatus, and the monitor/control apparatus collects status information from the network under it in accordance with the collection command.

5. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said monitor/control apparatus collects status change information showing a status change when there is a status change in the network under it and notifies the status change information to said network integrated management apparatus.

6. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein, when updating a monitor/control object in said network under said monitor/control apparatus, the monitor/control apparatus notifies updated network management range information to said network integrated management apparatus, and the network integrated management apparatus automatically updates the network management range information in the network integrated management apparatus and updates a status display of that network in accordance with this.

7. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein, when a monitor/control apparatus is added, that monitor/control apparatus notifies new network management range information to said network integrated management apparatus, and the network integrated management apparatus automatically updates network management range information in that network integrated management apparatus in accordance with this and updates a status display of the network.

8. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein, when a monitor/control object is added due to update of the monitor/control objects, said network integrated management apparatus issues a notification request for requesting notification of the operating state to the added monitor/control object.

9. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein, when not normally receiving normality check information showing if the monitor/control information is being normally sent from a monitor/control apparatus, said network integrated management apparatus judges that an abnormality has occurred in the monitor/control apparatus and the network under it and changes the status display of that network in the network integrated management apparatus.

10. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 9, wherein said network integrated management apparatus performs processing for retries for receiving said normality check information and, when exhausting the number of retries, judges that that monitor/Control apparatus has been removed and changes the status display of that network in the network integrated management apparatus.

11. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said network integrated management apparatus designates at least one network able to be placed under its control and manages the designated network through the corresponding monitor/control apparatus.

12. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said monitor/control apparatus is managed by at least one network integrated management apparatus.

13. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein a first network integrated management apparatus remotely controls the network managed by a second network integrated management apparatus through the Internet and said monitor/control apparatus having that network under it, based on management information of that network managed by the second network integrated management apparatus.

14. A network integrated management system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said monitor/control information is transferred according to SMTP.

15. An network integrated management apparatus, the apparatus sends and receives monitor/control information, through a monitor/control apparatus having a network under it and the Internet, to integratedly manage the network to be monitored and controlled.

16. A monitor/control apparatus, the apparatus has a network to be monitored and controlled under it and sends and receives monitor/control information through the Internet with a network integrated management apparatus which integratedly manages the network.

17. A computer readable recording medium storing a program for making a computer execute:

processing in a network integrated management apparatus for issuing a control command to a monitor/control apparatus as monitor/control information and

processing in the monitor/control apparatus for controlling a network under it in accordance with said control command.

18. A recording medium as set forth in claim 17, further including:

processing in said monitor/control apparatus for controlling the network under it in accordance with said control command,

processing for collecting results of processing in accordance with said control command from the network, and

processing for notifying the collected information to said network integrated management apparatus.

19. A computer readable recording medium storing a program for making a computer execute:

processing in a network integrated management apparatus for issuing a collection command instructing collection of status information showing a state of a network to a monitor/control apparatus as monitor/control information and

processing in said monitor/control apparatus for collecting status information from the network in accordance with that collection command.