Integrated network installation system

• US 6,018,769 A
• Filed: 07/16/1997
• Issued: 01/25/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Miyake, Shigeru, Matsumura, Satoru, Tsuyuki, Yousuke, Furukawa, Hiroshi, Kihara, Kenichi, Tezuka, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Follansbee, John A.
• Application Number:
  US08/895,555
• Time in Patent Office: 923 Days
• Field of Search: 395/200.5, 395/652, 395/653, 395/200.57, 395/200.52, 395/701, 395/712, 395/828, 345/356, 345/357, 345/969, 709/200, 709/220, 709/221, 709/222, 709/224, 709/227, 709/228, 709/229, 709/249, 709/250, 710/10, 710/104, 713/1, 713/2, 713/100, 340/825.06, 340/825.5
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0873 Checking configuration conflicts between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0883 Semiautomatic configuration, e.g. proposals from system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/969 Network layout and operation interface

Abstract

An integrated network installation system which comprises an execution section having function specification means for specifying a network function of an information processor connected to a network, and preparation means for preparing installation data corresponding to the network function of the information processor specified by the specification means and a display section for connecting the information processor to the network based on the installation data from the execution section, and displaying it.

Claims

1. A support system for constructing an integrated network, said support system having a user interface section and an execution section,

wherein said user interface section comprises:

memory means for storing plural installation data each of which corresponds to each of network functions of information processors to be connected to said integrated network,

acceptance means for accepting specifications of corresponding relationships, as to each of the information processors, between the information processor and the network function of the information processor,

edit means, as to each of the plural installation data in said memory means, for editing the installation data according to the specification of corresponding relationship, accepted by said acceptance means, between the information processor corresponding to the installation data and the network function of the information processor, and

match means for matching plural edited installation data edited by said edit means; and

wherein said execution section comprises;

determination means for determining a construction of said integrated network to which said information processors are connected, based on matched installation data matched by said matching means, and

register means for registering at least one of the plural edited installation data edited by said edit means in a memory medium.

2. A support system defined in claim 1,

wherein said user interface section provides the matched installation data to said execution section through a recording medium.

3. A support system defined in claim 1,

wherein said user interface section and said execution section can be detached into two distant locations.

4. A support system defined in claim 1,

wherein said user interface section further comprises a data communication means with the execution section for providing the matched installation data for said execution section.

5. A support system defined in claim 4,

wherein said execution section further comprises a data communication means with the user interface section for accepting the matched installation data from the user interface section.

6. A support system defined in claim 5,

wherein said data communication means with the user interface section accepts the matched installation data through a data communication medium such as a recording medium.

7. A support system defined in claim 5,

wherein said user interface section and said execution section share a memory to store the matched installation data.