NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20080250127A1
• Filed: 06/16/2008
• Published: 10/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sugisawa, Kouji
• Application Number:
  US12/139,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20080250127A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0883 Semiautomatic configuration, e.g. proposals from system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies

Abstract

When a new service is implemented by adding a server, a network management device detects a network device requiring setting modification. Next, the network management device presents to an administrator a plurality of samples corresponding to the detected network device requiring setting modification and selects a sample selected by the administrator as setting modification content. Specifically, the network management device retrieves from a sample database a plurality of samples corresponding to the network device requiring setting modification, presents the retrieved samples to the administrator so that the administrator can select one, selects the sample selected by the administrator as the setting modification content, and sets the selected setting modification content to the network device.

Claims

1. A computer program product having a computer readable medium including programmed instructions for managing structure definition of network devices that form a network, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform:

registering, in a sample storage unit, a sample for setting configuration definitions of the network devices;

searching for a network device requiring modification of structure definition when a server resource is added to provide a new service;

reading, from the sample storage unit, the sample corresponding to the network device detected by the searching to present the sample; and

modifying the configuration definition of the network device based on information received from the sample presented.

2. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the registering includes registering a plurality of samples in the sample storage unit so that the samples are selectable by a user,

the reading includes reading, from the sample storage unit, a plurality of samples for setting the configuration definitions to present the samples to the user, and

the modifying includes modifying the configuration definition based on the information received from one selected from among the samples presented.

3. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the registering includes registering, in the sample storage unit, the sample in which designated data is already input in a modifiable manner, and

the reading includes reading the sample having the designated data already input in a modifiable manner to present the sample.

4. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the registering includes registering the sample in the sample storage unit so that the sample is associated with one or more of a type of the network device, a connection location of the network device, and a port number where the network device is connected, and

the reading includes reading, from the sample storage unit, the sample based on one or more of the type of the network device, the connection location of the network device, and the port number where the network device is connected to present the sample.

5. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the searching includes searching for the network device requiring structure definition modification so that the searching starts from a switch where the server added for offering the new service is connected and ends when another network, switch, or non-control network device is detected.

6. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein the searching includes

when a non-control network device is detected, determining whether the searching is allowed to be continued until another network or switch is detected, and if further searching is allowed, continuing the searching until another network or switch is detected.

7. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein the modifying includes when a non-control network device is detected, notifying an administrator of the detection.

8. A network management device for managing structure definition of network devices that form a network, the network management device comprising:

a sample registering unit that registers in a sample storage unit a sample for setting configuration definitions of the network devices;

a network-device searching unit that searches for a network device requiring modification of structure definition when a server resource is added to provide a new service;

a sample presenting unit that reads, from the sample storage unit, the sample corresponding to the network device detected by the network-device searching unit to present the sample; and

a structure-definition modifying unit that modifies the configuration definition of the network device based on information received from the sample presented by the sample presenting unit.

9. A network management method for managing structure definition of network devices that form a network, the network management method comprising:

registering, in a sample storage unit, a sample for setting configuration definitions of the network devices;

searching for a network device requiring modification of structure definition when a server resource is added to provide a new service;

reading, from the sample storage unit, the sample corresponding to the network device detected by the searching to present the sample; and

modifying the configuration definition of the network device based on information received from the sample presented.