Remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function

• US 20040017779A1
• Filed: 09/23/2002
• Published: 01/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MOXA Technologies Co. Ltd. (Moxa Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MOXA Technologies Co. Ltd. (Moxa Inc.)
• Inventors: Liu, Wen-Shuai, Chen, Ming-Chuang
• Application Number:
  US10/251,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20040017779A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/245
• 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 11/2294 by remote test
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/00 Systems for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution or end-user application management characterised by the use of communication or information technologies, or communication or information technology specific aspects supporting them

Abstract

A remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function is constructed to include multiple remote equipments to be monitored, an Ethernet connected to the remote equipments, a remote monitor equipment installed in the Ethernet and adapted to monitor working status of the remote equipments, and an Ethernet switch installed in the Ethernet and adapted to collect working status messages of the remote equipment and forward collected working status message to the remote monitor equipment. The Ethernet switch has an event detection mechanism adapted to detect working status of the remote equipments, a processor adapted to analyze working status messages collected by the event detection mechanism, and a warning message generator controlled by the processor to generate a warning E-mail message to the remote monitor equipment when one working message judged to be the message of an abnormal working status.

Claims

1. A remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function, comprising at least one remote equipment to be monitored, an Ethernet connected to said at least one remote equipment to be monitored, a remote monitor equipment installed in said Ethernet and adapted to monitor working status of said at least one remote equipment, and an Ethernet switch installed in said Ethernet and adapted to collect working status messages of said at least one remote equipment and forward collected working status message to said remote monitor equipment, wherein said Ethernet switch comprises an event detection mechanism adapted to detect working status of said at least one remote equipment, a processor adapted to analyze working status messages collected by said event detection mechanism from said at least one remote equipment, and a warning message generator controlled by said processor to generate a warning E-mail message to said remote monitor equipment when one working message collected by said event detection mechanism judged by said processor to be the message of an abnormal working status.

2. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said remote monitor equipment is a computer.

3. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one remote equipment is respectively a computer.

4. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one remote equipment is respectively a power generator.

5. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said Ethernet switch further comprises a plurality of ports respectively connected to said event detection mechanism and said at least one remote equipment, for enabling said event detection mechanism to collect working status messages from said at least one remote equipment.

6. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 5, wherein said Ethernet switch further comprises a read only memory and a random access memory respectively connected to said processor, for enabling said processor to store processing data in said random access memory temporarily to facilitate time-sharing multiplex data processing, and processed storage data in said read only memory.

7. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 6, wherein said read only memory is a flash memory.

8. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 6, wherein said random access memory is a SDRAM.

9. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said communication systems of said Ethernet switch are fiber optic converters.

10. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said communication systems of said Ethernet switch are twisted-pair cable connectors (RJ45).

11. The remote equipment monitoring system with active warning function as claimed in claim 1, wherein said Ethernet switch is an Ethernet router.