Monitoring device, monitoring system, monitoring method, and program

• US 20090198814A1
• Filed: 05/28/2007
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Oono, Mitsuhiro, Kato, Kiyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,549,137 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/30 Monitoring

Abstract

Diverting condition storage unit 15 stores diverting conditions describing conditions for hardware configurations and software configurations. Monitoring data storage unit 13 stores monitoring data on the hardware configurations and the software configurations on monitored devices. Monitoring setting information storage unit stores monitoring setting information on the monitored devices. By referencing monitoring data and diverting conditions, first setting-diverting unit judges if monitoring setting information set in a monitored device may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device and outputs the result to a management terminal. The system administrator diverts the monitoring setting information among multiple monitored devices based on judgment result.

Claims

1. A monitoring device comprising:

a monitoring manager that sets up monitoring for a monitoring agent in a monitored device according to monitoring setting information stored in a monitoring setting information storage unit, receives monitoring data on a hardware configuration and a software configuration sent from the monitoring agent, and stores the received monitoring data a in monitoring data storage unit;

wherein said monitoring device further comprises;

a diverting condition storage unit that stores diverting conditions describing conditions for hardware configurations and software configurations; and

a setting diverting unit that judges if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device by referencing the monitoring data and the diverting conditions, and outputs the judged result.

2. The monitoring device as defined by claim 1, wherein said setting diverting unit receives a specification of a diverting-destination monitored device from a management terminal and judges if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device other than the specified diverting-destination monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on said diverting-destination monitored device.

3. The monitoring device as defined by claim 2,

wherein said setting diverting unit calculates a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-source candidate, and decides a diverting-source monitored device, from which monitoring setting information may be diverted to said diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing the calculation result.

4. The monitoring device as defined by claim 2, further comprising:

a diverting condition presentation setting unit that displays a resource status, which is included in monitoring data on each monitored device stored in said monitoring data storage unit, on a screen of said management terminal and, when a system administrator specifies that a resource status selected on the screen by the system administrator be set to a diverting condition, sets a resource status, which indicates a status that is a reverse of the resource status, in said diverting condition storage unit.

5. The monitoring device as defined by claim 1, wherein said setting diverting unit receives a specification of a diverting-source monitored device from a management terminal and judges if monitoring setting information, which is set in the specified diverting-source monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device.

6. The monitoring device as defined by claim 5, wherein said setting diverting unit calculates a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-destination candidate, and decides a diverting-destination monitored device, to which monitoring setting information that is set in the diverting-source monitored device may be diverted, by referencing the calculation result.

7. A monitoring system comprising:

a plurality of monitored devices each of which has a monitoring agent;

a monitoring device connected communicably to said plurality of monitored devices; and

a management terminal connected to said monitoring device,

wherein said monitoring device comprises;

a monitoring manager that sets up monitoring for the monitoring agents in the monitored devices according to monitoring setting information stored in monitoring setting information storage unit, receives monitoring data on hardware configurations and software configurations sent from the monitoring agents, and stores the received monitoring data in monitoring data storage unit;

a diverting condition storage unit that stores diverting conditions describing conditions for the hardware configurations and the software configurations; and

a setting diverting unit that judges if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device by referencing the monitoring data and the diverting conditions and outputs the judged result to said management terminal.

8. A monitoring method for monitoring monitored devices by a computer connected communicably to a plurality of said monitored devices, each of which has a monitoring agent,

wherein said monitoring method comprises:

judging, by said computer, if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device by referencing monitoring data and diverting conditions and outputting the judged result to a management terminal, said monitoring data being data on hardware configurations and software configurations of the monitored devices stored in a storage unit, said diverting conditions describing conditions for the hardware configurations and the software configurations termed as a first step;

setting, by said computer, monitoring setting information, which is stored in said storage unit, in the monitoring agent of the monitored device according to an instruction from said management terminal, termed as a second step; and

receiving, by said computer, monitoring data on the hardware configuration and the software configuration sent from the monitoring agent and storing the received monitoring data in said storage unit, termed as a third step.

9. The monitoring method as defined by claim 8, wherein said first step comprises the steps of:

receiving a specification of a diverting-destination monitored device from said management terminal, and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device other than the specified diverting-destination monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on said diverting-destination monitored device.

10. The monitoring method as defined by claim 9, wherein said first step comprises:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-source candidate; and

deciding a diverting-source monitored device, from which monitoring setting information may be diverted to said diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing the calculation result.

11. The monitoring method as defined by claim 8, wherein said first step comprises:

receiving a specification of a diverting-source monitored device from said management terminal; and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in the specified diverting-source monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device.

12. The monitoring method as defined by claim 11, wherein said first step comprises:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-destination candidate; and

deciding a diverting-destination monitored device, to which monitoring setting information that is set in the diverting-source monitored device may be diverted, by referencing the calculation result.

13. A program that causes a computer, connected communicably to a plurality of monitored devices each of which has a monitoring agent, to perform:

a first process of judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device by referencing monitoring data and diverting conditions and outputting the judged result to a management terminal, said monitoring data being data on hardware configurations and software configurations of the monitored devices stored in a storage unit, said diverting conditions describing conditions for the hardware configurations and the software configurations;

a second process of setting monitoring setting information, which is stored in said storage unit, in the monitoring agent of the monitored device according to an instruction from said management terminal; and

a third process of receiving monitoring data on the hardware configuration and the software configuration sent from the monitoring agent and storing the received monitoring data in said storage unit.

14. The program as defined by claim 13, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

receiving a specification of a diverting-destination monitored device from said management terminal; and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in a monitored device other than the specified diverting-destination monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on said diverting-destination monitored device.

15. The program as defined by claim 14, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-source candidate; and

deciding a diverting-source monitored device, from which monitoring setting information may be diverted to said diverting-destination monitored device, by referencing the calculation result.

16. The program as defined by claim 13, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

receiving a specification of a diverting-source monitored device from said management terminal; and

judging if monitoring setting information, which is set in the specified diverting-source monitored device, may be diverted as monitoring setting information on another monitored device.

17. The program as defined by claim 16, wherein said first process comprises the processes of:

calculating a satisfaction degree of the diverting conditions for each monitored device, which is a diverting-destination candidate; and

deciding a diverting-destination monitored device, to which monitoring setting information that is set in the diverting-source monitored device may be diverted, by referencing the calculation result.