Storage medium readable by a machine tangible embodying event notification management program and event notification management apparatus

• US 20060212743A1
• Filed: 09/28/2005
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Ken-ichi, Iwakura, You-ichi, Minegishi, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 7,908,524 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0769 Readable error formats, e.g. cross-platform generic formats, human understandable formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0781 Error filtering or prioritizing based on a policy defined by the user or on a policy defined by a hardware/software module, e.g. according to a severity level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0226 Mapping or translating multiple network management protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications

Abstract

An event notification management program 110 makes a computer function as processing means for controlling notification, given to a predetermined system 200, of information about an event occurred within the system 100 that is acquired from notification information provided from a component (20, 30, 40) within the system 100. The processing means has a function of determining a content of a notification process corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information on the basis of management information (FIG. 19) in which event identifying information specifying the event is associated with the content of the notification process (S102), and controlling the notification, given to the predetermined system, of the information about the event in accordance with the content of the notification process (S104, S105).

Claims

1. A storage medium readable by a machine, tangible embodying a event notification management program of instructions executable by the machine to make the machine as a processing apparatus controlling notification to a predetermined system, of information about an event occurred within a system, the information being acquired from notification information provided from a component within the system, the processing apparatus comprising function of:

determining a content of a notification process corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information on the basis of management information in which event identifying information specifying the event is associated with the content of the notification process; and

controlling the notification to the predetermined system, of the information about the event in accordance with the content of the notification process.

2. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 1, wherein the processing apparatus includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit,

the content of the notification process contains at least designating information of a notification processing unit employed for the first processing unit to notify of the information about the event, and a notification condition,

the first processing unit has a function of determining the notification processing unit corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information, and instructing the determined notification processing unit to notify of the information about the event, and

the second processing unit has a function of controlling, when the notification processing unit determined by the first processing unit is the second processing unit, the notification of the information about the event in accordance with the notification condition.

3. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 2, wherein the notification condition contains an occurrence upper limit count of the same event within a predetermined period of time, and

the second processing unit has a function of instructing, when the occurrence count of the same event reaches the occurrence upper limit count within the predetermined period of time, the predetermined notification processing unit to notify of the information about the event.

4. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 2, wherein the notification condition contains a notification restraining period, and

the second processing unit has a function of restraining, if a period of time from the time when notifying of the information about the event last time is within the notification restraining period, the notification of the information about the event.

5. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 2, wherein the content of the notification process contains the designating information of the notification processing unit instructed by the second processing unit to notify of the information about the event.

6. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 1, the processing apparatus comprising a format converting unit converting the notification information provided from the component within the system into a predetermined format.

7. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 6, wherein the format converting unit includes:

a syntax selection unit selecting, from a plurality of syntaxes, a syntax expressing the notification information provided from the component within the system;

a unique part information extracting unit extracting unique part information contained in the notification information expressed by the selected syntax; and

an editing unit editing the notification information in the predetermined format that contains identifying information associated with the selected syntax and the extracted unique part information.

8. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 7, wherein the syntax selection unit selects the syntax expressing the notification information provided from the component within the system from the plurality of syntaxes grouped based on a part of information that can be contained in the syntax expressing the notification information.

9. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 7, wherein in the plurality of syntaxes, a plurality of syntaxes that should be structured in series are specified, and

there is further provided a unit repeating the processes of the unique part information extracting unit and of the editing unit till the syntax selection unit selects all the plurality of syntaxes that should be structured in series as the syntaxes expressing the notification information provided from the component within the system.

10. The storage medium readable by the machine, tangible embodying the event notification management program according to claim 7, wherein each of the plurality of syntaxes becomes a regular expression syntax.

11. An event notification management apparatus controlling notification to a predetermined system, of information about an event occurred within a system, the information being acquired from notification information provided from a component within the system, comprising:

a storage unit storing management information in which event identifying information specifying the event is associated with a content of a notification process; and

a processing unit determining the content of the notification process corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information, and controlling the notification to the predetermined system, of the information about the event in accordance with the content of the notification process.

12. The event notification management apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit,

the content of the notification process contains at least designating information of notification processing unit employed for the first processing unit to notify of the information about the event, and a notification condition,

the first processing unit contains a first notification control unit determining the notification processing unit corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information, and instructing the determined notification processing unit to notify of the information about the event, and

the second processing unit contains a second notification control unit controlling, when the notification processing unit determined by the first processing unit is the second processing unit, the notification of the information about the event in accordance with the notification condition.

13. The event notification management apparatus according to claim 12, the processing unit further including a format converting unit converting the notification information provided from the component within the system into a predetermined format.

14. The event notification management apparatus according to claim 13, the format converting unit containing:

a table unit storing and managing the plurality of syntaxes;

a syntax selection unit selecting, from a plurality of syntaxes, a syntax expressing the notification information provided from the component within the system;

a unique part information extracting unit extracting unique part information contained in the notification information expressed by the selected syntax; and

editing unit editing the notification information in the predetermined format that contains identifying information associated with the selected syntax and the extracted unique part information.

15. An event notification management method controlling notification to a predetermined system, of information about an event occurred within a system that is acquired from notification information provided from a component within the system, comprising:

a referring step referring management information in which event identifying information specifying the event is associated with a content of a notification process; and

a processing step determining the content of the notification process corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information, and controlling the notification to the predetermined system, of the information about the event in accordance with the content of the notification process.

16. The event notification management method according to claim 15, wherein the processing step includes a first processing step and a second processing step,

the content of the notification process contains at least designating information of a notification processing unit employed for the first processing step to notify of the information about the event, and a notification condition,

the first processing step includes a first notification control step of determining the notification processing unit corresponding to the event acquired from the provided notification information, and instructing the determined notification processing unit to notify of the information about the event, and

the second processing step includes a second notification control step of controlling, when the notification processing unit determined in the first processing step is a process by the second processing step, the notification of the information about the event in accordance with the notification condition.

17. The event notification management method according to claim 15,

wherein the processing step includes a format converting step of converting the notification information provided from the component within the system into a predetermined format.

18. An event notification management method according to claim 17, wherein the format converting step includes:

a syntax selecting step of selecting, from a plurality of syntaxes, a syntax for expressing the notification information provided from the component within the system;

a unique part information extracting step of extracting unique part information contained in the notification information expressed by the selected syntax; and

an editing step of editing the notification information in the predetermined format that contains identifying information associated with the selected syntax and the extracted unique part information.