Computer system monitoring apparatus

• US 5,689,416 A
• Filed: 06/01/1995
• Issued: 11/18/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yoshida, Chidori, Shimizu, Takanori, Morimoto, Toshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Gordon, Paul P.
• Application Number:
  US08/457,476
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 364/184, 364/550, 364/570, 364/185, 364/176, 364/131, 364/551.01, 364/554, 395/575, 395/200.11, 395/587, 395/684, 340/825.06, 340/825.16
• US Class Current: 700/80
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2205 using arrangements specific to the hardware being tested
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2736 using a dedicated service processor for test
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display

Abstract

A menu controller displays a menu of failure statuses on a monitor display. The menu controller displays a user select menu by referring to the contents of a user table storage, and controls the display attribute of the user select menu in accordance with the failure status. When a specific user is selected from the user select menu, the menu controller displays a system configuration menu showing the configuration layout of an associated user system by referring to the contents of an I/O table storage, and controls the display attribute of the constituting devices in accordance with the failure status. When a specific constituting device is selected from the system configuration menu, the menu controller displays a device information menu showing detailed information of the selected device, and detailed information.

Claims

1. A computer system monitoring apparatus comprising:

status detecting means, provided for each of a plurality of target systems, for detecting an occurrence of a failure and a preventive maintenance, both associated with constituting devices in said computer system, and outputting failure/maintenance information via a transmission system;

system display means for displaying a list of said target systems;

first selecting means for selecting one of said target systems of interest from said target systems displayed by said system display means;

configuration layout display means for generating and displaying a system configuration layout of said one target system selected by said first selecting means;

second selecting means for selecting a constituting device of interest from said system configuration layout displayed by said configuration layout display means;

statistics information display means for generating and displaying statistics information of a history of failure information of said constituting device selected by said second selecting means;

first warning display means for, when informed of an occurrence of a failure satisfying a predetermined condition in a constituting device in a target system based on said failure/maintenance information, indicating an alarm by altering a display attribute of an associated target system name among names of said target systems displayed by said system display means; and

second warning display means for, when informed of an occurrence of a failure satisfying a predetermined condition of a target system based on said failure/maintenance information, indicating an alarm by altering a display attribute of an associated constituting device among individual constituting devices displayed by said configuration layout display means.

2. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising configuration information informing means, provided for each of said target systems, for outputting configuration information about constituting devices in said computer system, via a transmission system.

3. A computer system monitoring apparatus comprising:

status detecting means, provided for each of a plurality of target systems, for detecting an occurrence of a failure and a preventive maintenance, both associated with constituting devices in said computer system, and outputting failure/maintenance information via a transmission system;

system display means for displaying a list of said target systems;

first selecting means for selecting one of said target systems of interest from said target systems displayed by said system display means;

configuration layout display means for generating and displaying a system configuration layout of said target system selected by said first selecting means;

second selecting means for selecting a constituting device of interest from said system configuration layout displayed by said configuration layout display means;

statistics information display means for generating and displaying statistics information of a history of failure information of said constituting device selected by said second selecting means;

first warning display means for indicating an alarm by altering display attributes of names of said target system displayed by said system display means in accordance with levels of failures in said target systems based on said failure/maintenance information; and

second warning display means for indicating an alarm by altering display attributes of individual constituting devices displayed by said configuration layout display means in accordance with levels of failures in said target systems based on said failure/maintenance information.

4. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said first warning display means includes means for using at least one of a display color attribute, a display gradation attribute and a display mode attribute as a display attribute for warning display.

5. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said second warning display means includes means for using at least one of a display color attribute, a display gradation attribute and a display mode attribute as a display attribute for warning display.

6. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising configuration information informing means, provided for each of said target systems, for outputting configuration information about constituting devices in said computer system, via a transmission system.