Management system comprising a unified interface for integrating a plurality of different system management software tools
First Claim
1. A tool operation unifying system for a plurality of computer systems which are managed with a plurality of different system management software tools having different fashions of communicating output information, wherein said unifying system comprises a computer having a terminal apparatus,and wherein said computer comprisesmeans for emulating terminals of said plurality of different system management software tools in display windows for operating said plurality of system management software tools, wherein one of said system management software tools comprises a different operating system than an other of said system management tools for generating said different fashions, andmeans for modifying the output information from said one of said system management software tools in said terminal apparatus to a converted form wherein the output information in said converted form is displayed in said unifying system in a unified fashion consistent with output information from said other of said system management tools, wherein said display windows appear to have a common format to an operator.
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Abstract
A computer having a terminal unit corresponding to a multiwindow is coupled with a control object system to be operated through communication devices. Furthermore, there are provided in the computer an emulation unit for emulating the operation of a terminal unit operated by respective operating tools software-wise, a unit for aggregating and processing message groups outputted by respective operating tools, a unit for controlling display of aggregated and processed information in a multiwindow, a unit for interpreting and converting the operation from a terminal unit corresponding to a multiwindow into a command group of respective operating tools and a unit for generating a picture interface of a terminal unit corresponding to a multiwindow by interlocking with an existing Office automation (OA) tool, thereby to unify and aggregate functions of a plurality of operating tool groups in one window.
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1. A tool operation unifying system for a plurality of computer systems which are managed with a plurality of different system management software tools having different fashions of communicating output information, wherein said unifying system comprises a computer having a terminal apparatus,
and wherein said computer comprises means for emulating terminals of said plurality of different system management software tools in display windows for operating said plurality of system management software tools, wherein one of said system management software tools comprises a different operating system than an other of said system management tools for generating said different fashions, and means for modifying the output information from said one of said system management software tools in said terminal apparatus to a converted form wherein the output information in said converted form is displayed in said unifying system in a unified fashion consistent with output information from said other of said system management tools, wherein said display windows appear to have a common format to an operator.
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7. A method of unifying operation fashions of different management software tools dedicated to different computer systems a tool operation unifying system comprising a main computer having a multiwindow terminal apparatus, an emulator for emulating a management software tool of each of said computer systems, and a display for displaying an output of said emulator in a window of said multiwindow terminal apparatus, wherein said plurality of computer systems are connected to said unifying system through said emulator, and
each of said computer systems comprises a terminal unit wherein an operating system of a corresponding management software tool differs from an other one of said different management software tools, said method comprising the steps of: modifying, by said unifying system, output information from said different management software tools into a converted format so as to make respective output information from said software tools unified to appear to have a common format to an operator, and displaying, by said unifying system, the modified output information on said display in respective windows of said multiwindow terminal apparatus in said common format.
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