Computer-supervising system

• US 5,748,880 A
• Filed: 09/03/1996
• Issued: 05/05/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Unai, Shogo, Egawa, Naoko, Ito, Yutaka, Murase, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Palys, Joseph E.
• Application Number:
  US08/718,017
• Time in Patent Office: 609 Days
• Field of Search: 395/185.01, 395/185.1, 395/184.01, 395/183.22, 395/181, 395/182.13, 395/183.02
• US Class Current: 714/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0709 in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0748 in a remote unit communicating with a single-box computer node experiencing an error/fault remote testing G06F11/2294
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2294 by remote test
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence

Abstract

A computer-supervising system includes a centralized supervisor unit for supervising numerous computers connected to each other via a network. The computer-supervising system further includes a recovery procedure-storing device for storing recovery procedures corresponding to faults of the computers, respectively; a message display device for displaying error messages corresponding to the faults, respectively, on a display screen, together with classification data added thereto by the computers; a fault-selecting device for selecting one of the error messages displayed on the display screen, according to an operation of an operator; a recovery procedure display device for reading one of the recovery procedures stored in the recovery procedure-storing device based on the selected one error message which corresponds to one of the faults, and for displaying the read one recovery procedure on the display screen; and a recovery-executing device for executing, by an operation of the operator, the read and displayed one recovery procedure to recover from the one fault corresponding to the selected one error message. The system further includes a recovery history-storing device for storing recovery procedures previously executed by the recovery-executing device; a recovery history-selecting device for selecting one of the recovery procedures stored in the recovery history-storing device, according to an operation of the operator; and a recovery history display device for displaying the selected one recovery procedure on the display screen.

Claims

1. A computer-supervising system including a centralized supervisor unit for supervising a large number of computers under supervision connected to each other via a network, said computer-supervising system comprising:

recovery procedure-storing means for storing a plurality of recovery procedures corresponding to a plurality of faults of said computers under supervision, respectively;

message display means for displaying a plurality of error messages corresponding to said plurality of faults, respectively, on a display screen, together with a plurality of classification data added thereto by said computers under supervision;

fault-selecting means for selecting one of said plurality of error messages displayed on said display screen, according to an operation of an operator;

recovery procedure display means for reading one of said plurality of recovery procedures stored in said recovery procedure-storing means based on said selected one error message which corresponds to one of said plurality of faults, and for displaying said read one recovery procedure on said display screen;

recovery-executing means for executing said read and displayed one recovery procedure when instructed by an operator, to thereby recover from said one fault which corresponds to said selected one error message;

recovery history-storing means for storing said one recovery procedure actually executed by said recovery-executing means and for storing a plurality of executed recovery procedures executed by said recovery-executing means over time;

recovery history-selecting means for selecting one of said plurality of executed recovery procedures stored in said recovery history-storing means, according to an operation of said operator; and

recovery history display means for displaying the selected one recovery procedure on said display screen.

2. A computer-supervising system according to claim 1, further including status display means for displaying a status of processing effected in response to each of said plurality of error messages.

3. A computer-supervising system according to claim 1, wherein said recovery procedure display means displays said read one recovery procedure on said display screen in the form of a window.

4. A computer-supervising system according to claim 1, wherein said recovery history display means displays said selected one recovery procedure on said display screen in the form of a window.