SWITCHING DEVICE, INORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR FAILURE NOTIFICATION CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20110239058A1
• Filed: 03/21/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: UMEZUKI, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,498,214 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/48
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/06 Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications

Abstract

A switching device includes a storage unit configured to store management information including an updated management information and a before updated management information, a specification unit configured to acquire an information for specifying management information stored in a management device which manages a failure that has occurred in an object device for the failure to be monitored and specify management information stored in the storage unit on the basis of the acquired information, and an information sending unit configured to send a failure information to the management device on the basis of the management information which has been specified using the specification unit in the case that the failure has been detected.

Claims

1. A switching device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store management information including an updated management information and a before updated management information;

a specification unit configured to acquire an information for specifying management information stored in a management device which manages a failure that has occurred in an object device for the failure to be monitored and specify management information stored in the storage unit on the basis of the acquired information; and

an information sending unit configured to send a failure information to the management device on the basis of the management information which has been specified using the specification unit in the case that the failure has been detected.

2. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that the updated management information has been stored in the storage unit, the specification unit acquires the information for specifying the management information from the management device and specifies the management information that the management device stores among the management information stored in the storage unit.

3. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that the management information stored in the management device has been updated, the specification unit acquires the information for specifying the management information from the management device and specifies the management information that the management device stores among the management information stored in the storage unit.

4. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that the specified management information is stored in another switching device which is cascade-connected with the switching device concerned, the specification unit specifies the management information which is stored in the cascade-connected switching device as the management information that the management device stores, and

in the case that the sending unit has detected the failure, the sending unit acquires the management information stored in the cascade-connected switching device which has been specified using the specification unit and sends the failure information to the management device on the basis of the acquired management information.

5. The switching device according to claim 4, wherein

in the case that the specification unit has specified the management information stored in the cascade-connected switching device as the management information that the management device stores, the specification unit stores a specified management information which is stored in the cascade-connected switching device into the storage unit, and

in the case that the sending unit has detected the failure, the sending unit sends the failure information to the management device on the basis of the management information which is stored in the storage unit and has been ever stored in the cascade-connected switching device.

6. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that communication between the switching device concerned and the management device has been disconnected, the sending unit sends the failure information to the management device via the cascade-connected switching device.

7. The switching device according to claim 1, wherein

in the case that information specifying the management information has been acquired from a plurality of management devices, the specification unit specifies the management information that each of the management devices manages from the management information that the storage unit stores on the basis of the acquired information for each management device, and

in the case that the sending unit has detected the failure, the sending unit sends the failure information to each of the plurality of management devices on the basis of the management information for each management device which has been specified using the specification unit.

8. An information processing device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store management information including an updated management information and a before updated management information;

a specification unit configured to acquire an information for specifying management information stored in a management device which manages a failure that has occurred in an object device for the failure to be monitored and specify management information stored in the storage unit on the basis of the acquired information; and

an information sending unit configured to send a failure information to the management device on the basis of the management information which has been specified using the specification unit in the case that the failure has been detected.

9. A computer-readable, non-transitory medium storing a failure notification control program that a computer to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising:

acquiring information used to specify management information which is stored in a management device that manages a failure occurred in an object device to be monitored;

specifying management information that the management device stores in management information stored in a storage unit that stores a first management information indicating an updated management information and a second management information indicating a management information obtained before updated on the basis of the acquired information used to specify the management information; and

sending the management device a failure information on the basis of the management information which has been specified by the specification procedure in the case that the failure has been detected.