Information monitoring method

• US 20070136269A1
• Filed: 02/24/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamakabe, Takashi, Fujino, Shuji
• Application Number:
  US11/360,588
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136269A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

A method of monitoring information of a plurality of computers including converting item identification information in an acquisition request for performance information into item identification information of a target computer as a monitoring target and transmitting by a communication device the converted acquisition request to the target computer; obtaining, for an item indicated by the item identification information in the converted acquisition request, performance information of the target computer and transmitting by a communication device the performance information to the target computer; and obtaining item identification information and a unit from performance information transmitted from the target computer, converting the item identification information and the unit into item identification information and a unit of a device on an acquisition request side having issued the acquisition request, and transmitting by a communication device the item identification information and the unit thus converted to the device on the acquisition request side.

Claims

1. An information monitoring method of monitoring information of a plurality of computers, comprising:

converting item identification information in an acquisition request for performance information into item identification information of a computer as a monitoring target and transmitting by a communication device a converted acquisition request thus converted to the computer as a monitoring target;

obtaining, for an item indicated by the item identification information thus converted in the converted acquisition request, performance information of the computer as a monitoring target and transmitting by a communication device the performance information to the computer as a monitoring target; and

obtaining item identification information and a unit from performance information transmitted from the computer as a monitoring target, converting the item identification information and the unit into item identification information and a unit of a device on an acquisition request side having issued the acquisition request, and transmitting by a communication device the item identification information and the unit thus converted to the device on the acquisition request side.

2. The information monitoring method according to claim 1, further comprising terminating, if a value of an item indicated by item identification information, which has been converted, satisfies a threshold value condition corresponding to the item identification information, a program corresponding to the threshold value condition.

3. The information monitoring method according to claim 1, further comprising transmitting, if a value of an item indicated by item identification information, which has been converted, satisfies a threshold value condition corresponding to the item identification information, a notification that the threshold value condition is satisfied.

4. The information monitoring method according to claim 3, further comprising converting item identification information and a unit in the notification indicating that the threshold value condition is satisfied into item identification information and a unit of a device as a notification destination of the notification.

5. The information monitoring method according to claim 3, further comprising transmitting, when communication with the device as a notification destination is in a connected state, the notification to the device as a notification destination.

6. An information monitoring system for monitoring information of a plurality of computers, comprising:

a manager processing part for converting item identification information in an acquisition request for performance information into item identification information of a computer as a monitoring target and transmitting by a communication device a converted acquisition request thus converted to the computer as a monitoring target and for converting item identification information and a unit in performance information transmitted from the computer as a monitoring target into item identification information and a unit of a device on an acquisition request side having issued the acquisition request and transmitting by a communication device the item identification information and the unit thus converted to the device on the acquisition request side; and

an agent processing part for obtaining, for an item indicated by the item identification information thus converted in the converted acquisition request, performance information of the computer as a monitoring target and transmitting by a communication device the performance information to the computer as a monitoring target.

7. An information monitoring system, wherein a computer including the manager processing part and the device on the acquisition request side are computers substantially equal to each other.

8. A program product to make a computer execute an information monitoring method of monitoring information of a plurality of computers, the program product making the computer execute:

a function to convert item identification information in an acquisition request for performance information into item identification information of a computer as a monitoring target and to transmit by a communication device a converted acquisition request thus converted to the computer as a monitoring target;

a function to obtain, for an item indicated by the item identification information thus converted in the converted acquisition request, performance information of the computer as a monitoring target and to transmit by a communication device the performance information to the computer as a monitoring target; and

a function to obtain item identification information and a unit from performance information transmitted from the computer as a monitoring target, to convert the item identification information and the unit into item identification information and a unit of a device on an acquisition request side having issued the acquisition request, and to transmit by a communication device the item identification information and the unit thus converted to the device on the acquisition request side.