CONTROL PROXY APPARATUS AND CONTROL PROXY METHOD

• US 20100287270A1
• Filed: 05/12/2010
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Hiroshi, Sato, Mitsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/778,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20100287270A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

A control proxy apparatus includes: a management-apparatus-information storage unit that stores identification information for uniquely identifying a management apparatus that manages various apparatuses and a communication format of the management apparatus; an apparatus-information storage unit that stores apparatus information for executing various types of control, in association with each control target apparatus; an authenticating unit that determines, when receiving a control request from the management apparatus, whether authentication information in the control request is stored in the management-apparatus-information storage unit; an apparatus-information acquiring unit that acquires, when the authenticating unit determines that the authentication information is stored in the management-apparatus-information storage unit, apparatus information corresponding to the control target apparatus, from the apparatus-information storage unit; and a control executing unit that converts control information in the control request based on the apparatus information acquired by the apparatus-information acquiring unit, and executes the converted control information on the control target apparatus.

Claims

1. A control proxy apparatus comprising:

a management-apparatus-information storage unit that stores therein identification information for uniquely identifying each of a plurality of management apparatuses that manage various apparatuses and a communication format of each of the management apparatuses;

an apparatus-information storage unit that stores therein apparatus information for executing various types of control, in association with each apparatus to be a control target apparatus;

an authenticating unit that determines, when receiving a control request for requesting execution of various types of control from the plurality of management apparatuses, whether authentication information stored in the control request is stored in the management-apparatus-information storage unit;

an apparatus-information acquiring unit that acquires, when the authenticating unit determines that the authentication information is stored in the management-apparatus-information storage unit, apparatus information corresponding to the control target apparatus to be controlled by the received control request, from the apparatus-information storage unit; and

a control executing unit that converts control information contained in the control request and indicating control contents based on the apparatus information acquired by the apparatus-information acquiring unit, and executes the converted control information on the control target apparatus.

2. The control proxy apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a management-apparatus adding unit that receives, when a new management apparatus that is not stored in the management-apparatus-information storage unit is to be added, authentication information from the new management apparatus, acquires a communication format at the time of reception of the authentication information, and stores the received authentication information and the acquired communication format in association with each other in the management-apparatus-information storage unit.

3. The control proxy apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control executing unit acquires, when receiving a control execution result indicating a result of execution of the converted control information on the control target apparatus, a communication format corresponding to the management apparatus being a transmission destination of the control request from the management-apparatus-information storage unit, converts the control result based on the acquired communication format, and notifies the management apparatus of the control execution result.

4. The control proxy apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an address-information storage unit that stores therein address information containing an external IP address and an internal IP address associated with each other, in association with each apparatus to be the control target apparatus, wherein

the control executing unit converts the control information contained in the control request and indicating control contents based on the apparatus information acquired by the apparatus-information acquiring unit, acquires an internal IP address associated with an external IP address contained in the control request and assigned to the control target apparatus, from the address-information storage unit, and executes the converted control information on the control target apparatus by using the acquired internal IP address.

5. The control proxy apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an apparatus-information updating unit that periodically acquires update information of each apparatus information of the control target apparatus from an external network, and updates the apparatus information stored in the apparatus-information storage unit with the acquired update information.

6. A control proxy method comprising:

firstly storing identification information for uniquely identifying each of a plurality of management apparatuses that manage various apparatuses and a communication format of each of the management apparatuses;

secondly storing apparatus information for executing various types of control, in association with each apparatus to be a control target apparatus;

determining, when receiving a control request for requesting execution of various types of control from the plurality of management apparatuses, whether authentication information stored in the control request is stored in the firstly storing;

acquiring, when it is determined in the determining that the authentication information is stored in the firstly storing, apparatus information corresponding to the control target apparatus to be controlled by the received control request, from information stored in the secondly storing; and

converting control information contained in the control request and indicating control contents based on the apparatus information acquired in the acquiring, and executing the converted control information on the control target apparatus.

7. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein a control proxy program, the program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

firstly storing identification information for uniquely identifying each of a plurality of management apparatuses that manage various apparatuses and a communication format of each of the management apparatuses;

secondly storing apparatus information for executing various types of control, in association with each apparatus to be a control target apparatus;

determining, when receiving a control request for requesting execution of various types of control from the plurality of management apparatuses, whether authentication information stored in the control request is stored in the firstly storing;

acquiring, when it is determined in the determining that the authentication information is stored in the firstly storing, apparatus information corresponding to the control target apparatus to be controlled by the received control request, from information stored in the secondly storing; and

converting control information contained in the control request and indicating control contents based on the apparatus information acquired in the acquiring, and executing the converted control information on the control target apparatus.