Display of detected event for information handling system

• US 6,681,245 B1
• Filed: 06/24/1999
• Issued: 01/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Sasagawa, Shigekazu
• Primary Examiner(s): BANANKHAH, MAJID A
• Application Number:
  US09/344,328
• Time in Patent Office: 1,671 Days
• Field of Search: 709/100, 709/200, 709/220, 709/221, 709/222, 709/224, 709/201, 709/203, 709/206, 709/225, 709/237, 709/235, 709/313, 709/315, 709/318, 709/320
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/327 Alarm or error message display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/86 Event-based monitoring

Abstract

A basic message is derived from a message database file based on an identifier indicative of the sort of an event contained in event data under control of an event message forming program. A message component specific to the event contained in the event data is derived under control of an event data acquiring procedure. The event message forming program inserts the message component into the basic message to thereby complete a desired message. When the basic messages and the event data acquiring procedures are prepared in correspondence with the new sorts of events, these new sorts of events can be simply accepted in the conventional main structure.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus including a plurality of resources and for detecting an event occurring in the resources to notify the detected event,

means for producing event data containing an identifier indicative of a sort of the detected event and also information specific to said detected event;

means for receiving the produced event data to derive the information specific to the event from the event data;

storing means for storing therein a basic message with respect to each sort of event, the basic message including a static message, to which a description indicating an insertion portion of information specific to the event, such as a service name or an error name or a component data, is inserted and which is commonly used for each sort of events; and

means for receiving the produced event data to derive the basic message corresponding thereto from said storing means based on the identifier, and for inserting the information specific to the event into the description of the basic message to thereby produce a complete message.

2. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information specific to the event of the event data contains one or more component data pieces to be inserted into the basic message and a display of the number of the component data pieces.

3. The information processing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said means for deriving the information specific to the event executes a procedure for deriving the component data from the event data by times corresponding to the number of the component data pieces.

4. A message forming appraised in an information processing apparatus including a plurality of resources and for detecting an event occurring in the resources to notify the detected event, comprising:

storing means for storing therein a basic message with respect to each sort of event, the basic message including a static message, to which a description indicating an insertion portion of information specific to the event such as a service name or an error name or a component data, is inserted in which is commonly used for each sort of event;

means for receiving event data containing an identifier indicative of the sort of the detected event and information specific to the detected event, and for deriving the information specific to the event from the event data; and

means for receiving the event data to derive the basic message corresponding thereto from said storing means based on the identifier, and for inserting the information specific to the event into the description of the basic message to thereby produce a complete message.

5. A message forming method used in an information processing apparatus including a plurality of resources and for detecting an event occurring in the resources to notify the detected event, comprising:

storing a basic message with respect to each sort of event, wherein the basic message includes a static message, to which a description indicating an insertion portion of information specific to the event, such as a service name or an error name or a component data, is inserted and which is commonly used for each sort of event;

receiving event data containing an identifier indicative of the sort of a detected event and information specific to the detected event;

deriving the information specific to the event from the event data;

receiving the event data to derive the basic message corresponding thereto from said storing means based on the identifier; and

inserting the information specific to the event into the description of the basic message to thereby produce a complete message.