Network management apparatus

• US 20070266140A1
• Filed: 05/11/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kawamata, Hajime
• Application Number:
  US11/801,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20070266140A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]

Abstract

A network management apparatus, including a communication section connected to a network, a memory for storing a network configuration diagram, a display, an input section, and an arithmetic control section, wherein when at least one device being connected to the network is detected, the arithmetic control section displays an indication on the display whether the device is to be registered in the network configuration diagram, and the arithmetic control section registers the device in the network configuration diagram based on an instruction inputted from the input section.

Claims

1. A network management apparatus, comprising:

a communication section connected to a network;

a memory for storing a network configuration diagram;

a display;

an input section; and

an arithmetic control section,

wherein when at least one device being connected to the network is detected, the arithmetic control section displays an indication on the display whether the device is to be registered in the network configuration diagram, and

the arithmetic control section registers the device in the network configuration diagram based on an instruction inputted from the input section.

2. The network management apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein when the device being connected to the network is detected, the arithmetic control section displays on the display a difference between the detected device and a device registered in the network configuration diagram, and the indication whether the device displayed as the difference is to be registered in the network configuration diagram, and

the arithmetic control section registers the device in the network configuration diagram based on the instruction inputted from the input section.

3. A network management apparatus, comprising:

a communication section connected to a network;

a memory for storing a network configuration diagram; and

an arithmetic control section,

wherein when at least one device being connected to the network is detected, the arithmetic control section compares the detected device and a device registered in the network configuration diagram, and

when there is a difference as a result of the comparison, the arithmetic control section notifies of the difference.

4. The network management apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the arithmetic control section notifies of the difference by transmitting an e-mail.

5. The network management apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

an alarm unit, and

wherein the arithmetic control section notifies of the difference by sounding the alarm unit.

6. The network management apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

an alarm unit, and

wherein the arithmetic control section notifies of the difference by lighting or blinking the alarm unit.

7. The network management apparatus as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

a display section, and

wherein the arithmetic control section notifies of the difference by displaying a message on the display section.