DESIGN ASSISTANCE DEVICE OF NETWORK SYSTEM
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Abstract
A design assistance device includes: a design information storage section configured to store design information containing at least information of slave devices and information of a topology in a network system in accordance with a design created by a user; an actual configuration information generation section configured to generate actual configuration information containing at least the information of the slave devices and the information of the topology in the actual network system; a comparison section configured to compare the design information and the actual configuration information; and an output section configured to generate a comparison screen indicating the respective configurations of the designed network system and the actual network system along with their commonalities and differences and outputting the comparison screen to a display device. Thus, a technology can be provided which assists the user to easily compare the designed network configuration and the actual machine'"'"'s network configuration.
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17 Claims
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10. A design assistance device of a network system including a master device and a plurality of slave devices, the design assistance device comprising:
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a design information storage section configured to store design information containing at least information of the slave devices and information of a topology in the network system in accordance with a design created by a user; an actual configuration information generation section configured to, based on information collected by the master device from the slave devices in an actual network system, generate actual configuration information containing at least the information of the slave devices and the information of the topology in the actual network system; a comparison section configured to compare the design information and the actual configuration information; an output section configured to, based on results of comparison by the comparison section, generate a comparison screen indicating the respective configurations of the designed network system and the actual network system along with their commonalities and differences and outputting the comparison screen to a display device; a selection section configured to permit the user to select at least some of portions related to differences between the designed network system and the actual network system on the comparison screen; and a modification section configured to modify the design information in a manner such that the configuration of the portions selected by the selection section is the same as that of the actual network system. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A program for assisting design of a network system including a master device and a plurality of slave devices and, if executed by a computer, causing the computer to function as:
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a design information storage section configured to store design information containing at least information of the slave devices and information of a topology in a network system in accordance with a design created by a user; an actual configuration information generation section configured to, based on information collected by the master device from the slave devices in an actual network system, generate actual configuration information containing at least the information of the slave devices and the information of the topology in the actual network system; a comparison section configured to compare the design information and the actual configuration information; and an output section configured to, based on results of comparison by the comparison section, generate a comparison screen indicating the respective configurations of the designed network system and the actual network system along with their commonalities and differences and outputting the comparison screen to a display device; a selection section configured to permit the user to select at least some of portions related to differences between the designed network system and the actual network system on the comparison screen; and a modification section configured to modify the design information in a manner such that the configuration of the portions selected by the selection section is the same as that of the actual network system. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. A design assistance method for assisting design of a network system including a master device and a plurality of slave devices and causing a computer to perform the steps of:
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storing design information containing at least information of the slave devices and information of a topology in a network system in accordance with a design created by a user; based on information collected by the master device from the slave devices in an actual network system, generating actual configuration information containing at least the information of the slave devices and the information of the topology in the actual network system; comparing the design information and the actual configuration information; based on results of comparison by the comparison section, generating a comparison screen indicating the respective configurations of the designed network system and the actual network system along with their commonalities and differences and outputting the comparison screen to a display device; permitting the user to select at least some of portions related to differences between the designed network system and the actual network system on the comparison screen; and modifying the design information in a manner such that the configuration of the selected portions may be the same as that of the actual network system.
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