Method and system for displaying integrated log information

• US 20040148389A1
• Filed: 05/14/2003
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hatakeyama, Atsushi, Satomi, Mitsunori
• Granted Patent: US 7,185,089 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for collecting only log information relating to specific processing from among a plurality of pieces of log information for integration.

According to the present invention, session information, which is given every time log information is processed and included in the log information held by a server, is recorded in a session-information management table. In addition, how session information associates with others among different pieces of log information is recorded in a session-information association table. Recursively searching the session-information association table by use of session information specified by a user through a target log entry input unit enables identification of a set of session information relating to the processing to which the user pays attention. Information corresponding to each of the session information related is collected from log information, and is integrated according to the recorded date and time of a log. Then, the integrated information is arranged in a form that assists the user in easily understanding a process flow before the information is presented to the user.

Claims

1. An integrated log displaying method used in an integration server that is connected via a network to a plurality of processing servers which perform a set of processing while mutually transmitting and receiving information, said integration server holding log information as an operation history relating to the set of processing, said method comprising the steps of:

collecting partial log information associated with an identifier recorded in the log information from the log information held in each of the processing servers by use of the identifier, the identifier being given to each unit of processing in the processing server; and

arranging a plurality of piece of the partial log information collected from each of the processing servers on the basis of order of time information and the association of the identifier to identify and display the partial log information for each of the processing servers.

2. An integrated log displaying method according to claim 1, wherein said processing server transmits the identifier to a means for creating the integrated log information, said means being possessed by the integration server.

3. An integrated log displaying method according to claim 1, wherein the association between the respective identifiers included in the plurality of pieces of log information is judged from the time-series order relation of the plurality of plurality of log information.

5. An integrated log displaying system according to claim 3, wherein said processing server comprises a means for transmitting the identifier to a means for creating integrated log display information.

6. An integrated log displaying system according to claim 3, wherein said integration server comprises a means for judging, from the plurality of pieces of log information, association of the respective identifiers included in the plurality of pieces of log information.

4. An integrated log displaying system comprising:

a plurality of processing servers for performing a set of processing while mutually transmitting and receiving information; and

an integration server, connected via a network to the processing servers, for holding log information as an operation history relating to a set of processing;

wherein said integration server includes;

means for collecting partial log information associated with an identifier recorded in the log information from a plurality of pieces of the log information held in each of the processing servers by use of the identifier, the identifier being given to each unit of processing in the processing server; and

means for arranging the partial log information on the basis of order of time information and the association of the identifiers to identify and display the partial log information for each of the processing server.

7. A computer-readable storage medium for storing a program for executing an integrated log displaying method used in an integration server connected via a network to a plurality of processing servers, the integration server holding log information as an operation history relating to a set of processing, said processing servers performing the set of processing while mutually transmitting and receiving information,

wherein said integrated log displaying comprising the steps of:

collecting partial log information associated with an identifier recorded in the log information from the log information held in each of the processing servers by use of the identifier, the identifier being given to each unit of processing in the processing server; and

arranging the plurality of pieces of partial log information collected from each of the processing servers on the basis of order of time information and association of the identifiers to identify and display the partial log information for each of the processing servers.