MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD
First Claim
1. A management apparatus connected to terminals and service providing resources for providing services to be used by the terminals via a network, the management apparatus comprising:
- user group information for managing the terminals by grouping the terminals into groups each corresponding to service use conditions of terminals belonging to the group; and
service information for associating each of the services provided by the service providing resources with paths for passing data when a terminal uses the service and a failure group which is affected by a failure when the failure occurs in one of the paths,wherein, when a failure occurs in one of the paths in the network, the management apparatus refers to the service information to identify a service for which the paths in the service information include the failed path as a failed service,wherein the management apparatus identifies a failure group associated with the identified failed service,wherein the management apparatus refers to the user group information to identify terminals belonging to the identified failure group as failure terminals, andwherein the management apparatus reports the identified failure terminals.
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Abstract
A management apparatus includes user group information for managing the terminals by grouping terminals into groups each corresponding to service use conditions of terminals belonging to the group, and service information for associating each of the services provided by the service providing resources with paths for passing data when a terminal uses the service and a failure group which is affected by a failure when the failure occurs in one of the paths. When a failure occurs in one of the paths in the network, the management apparatus refers to the service information to identify a service for which the paths in the service information include the failed path as a failed service, identifies a failure group associated with the identified failed service, refers to the user group information to identify terminals belonging to the identified failure group as failure terminals, and reports the identified failure terminals.
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12 Claims
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1. A management apparatus connected to terminals and service providing resources for providing services to be used by the terminals via a network, the management apparatus comprising:
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user group information for managing the terminals by grouping the terminals into groups each corresponding to service use conditions of terminals belonging to the group; and service information for associating each of the services provided by the service providing resources with paths for passing data when a terminal uses the service and a failure group which is affected by a failure when the failure occurs in one of the paths, wherein, when a failure occurs in one of the paths in the network, the management apparatus refers to the service information to identify a service for which the paths in the service information include the failed path as a failed service, wherein the management apparatus identifies a failure group associated with the identified failed service, wherein the management apparatus refers to the user group information to identify terminals belonging to the identified failure group as failure terminals, and wherein the management apparatus reports the identified failure terminals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A management method for a management apparatus connected to terminals, service providing resources for providing services to be used by the terminals via a network to manage the terminals, the service providing resources, and the network,
the management apparatus including: -
user group information for managing the terminals by grouping the terminals into groups each corresponding to service use conditions of terminals belonging to the group; and service information for associating each of the services provided by the service providing resources with paths for passing data when a terminal uses the service and a failure group which is affected by a failure when the failure occurs in one of the paths, the management method comprising; referring to, by the management apparatus, the service information upon occurrence of a failure in one of the paths in the network to identify a service for which the paths in the service information include the failed path as a failed service; identifying, by the management apparatus, a failure group associated with the identified failed service; referring to, by the management apparatus, the user group information to identify terminals belonging to the identified failure group as failure terminals; and reporting, by the management apparatus, the identified failure terminals. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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