Home/building fault analysis system using resource connection map log and method thereof

• US 9,009,533 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2012
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Jeu Young, Son, Ji Yeon, Lee, Ji Hyun, Park, Jun Hee, Moon, Kyeong Deok
• Primary Examiner(s): Leibovich, Yair
• Application Number:
  US13/724,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20130173959A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: 714/20, 714/37
• US Class Current: 714/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications

Abstract

Provided are a home/building fault analysis system and method using a resource connection map log which compares and analyzes a previous integrated resource state and a current resource state using resource connection map logging information based on a standard resource management model when a fault is generated, provides state information of the resource in which information having high association with a fault resource is mainly changed, and performs an effective fault analysis and process by restoring to the previous resource state, as necessary. According to the prevent invention, when the fault is generated, a synthetic state of resources within a home/building as well as a state of an individual resource may be known from the resource connection map.

Claims

1. A home/building fault analysis system comprising:

a plurality of resources that include at least one of a plurality of devices running on a processor, networks, and processors running services; and

a home/building log-based fault management device that is connected with each of the resources via a network to thereby collect information of each of the resources, generates and maintains a resource connection map based on the collected information of each of the resources, compares and analyzes, when a fault is generated, a previous integrated resource state and a current resource state using resource connection map logging information to thereby provide, to a user, state information of the resource in which information having high association with a fault resource is mainly changed, and performs an effective fault analysis and process by restoring the current resource state to the previous resource state, as necessary,

wherein the home/building log-based fault management device includes

a plurality of resource information collection modules that are connected with the plurality of resources via the network to thereby periodically collect the information of each of the resources,

a home/building resource management module that processes resources within a home/building to targets to be managed based on the information of the resources collected from each of the plurality of resource information collection modules, and analyzes a relation between the resources to thereby generate the resource connection map,

a local storage module that stores the resource connection map periodically transmitted from the home/building resource management module, and information about resource events, and

a fault analysis and state restoration module that compares and analyzes, when a fault is generated, the previous integrated resource state and the current resource state using the resource connection map logging information transmitted from the home/building resource management module to thereby provide, to the user, the state information of the resource in which information having high association with the fault resource is mainly changed, and performs the effective fault analysis and process by restoring the current resource state to the previous resource state, as necessary.

2. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 1, wherein the home/building resource management module is provided with the information of the resources periodically collected through each of the plurality of resource information collection modules to thereby generate the resource connection map, transmits the generated resource connection map to the local storage module or the fault analysis and state restoration module, manages the managed resource and connection information so that the managed resource and the connection information are periodically recorded in the local storage module, and manages event information when an event is generated so that the event information is stored in the local storage module.

3. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 1, wherein the home/building resource management module includes

an integrated information storage unit for each resource that is provided with the information of the resources periodically collected from each of the plurality of resource information collection module to thereby store integrate information for each resource,

an integrated resource connection map generating unit that aggregates all the integrated information for each resource stored in the integrated information storage unit to thereby generate an integrated resource connection map of all resources,

a resource connection map and event logging unit that synthetically manages the resource connection map transmitted from the integrated resource connection map generating unit and a variety of event logs, and performs resource connection map and event logging, and

a logging information providing unit that provides information logged from the resource connection map and event logging unit to the local storage module or the fault analysis and state restoration module.

4. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 3, wherein the resource connection map and event logging unit periodically logs and records a current resource connection map managed in the integrated resource connection map generating unit to thereby transmit the recorded current resource connection map to the logging information providing unit, logs and records information associated with an event generation time when an event is generated in the home/building resource management module to thereby transmit the recorded information to the logging information providing unit, and provides the resource connection map of a specific timestamp based on the logged contents to the logging information providing unit.

5. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 1, wherein the fault analysis and state restoration module analyzes the fault based on the resource connection map managed in the home/building resource management module, is provided with corresponding fault generation information through the home/building resource management module when the fault is generated in the resource to be managed in the home/building, requests the fault analysis from the home/building resource management module when a resource control execution has failed, when an error message is received, or when a request of the user is received, is provided, from the home/building resource management module, with a log resource connection map when the resource exists in the resource connection map, or when the resource control execution has succeeded to thereby analyze any differences with a current resource connection map, and restores the resource state to the previous state based on the results of the analysis.

6. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 1, wherein the fault analysis and state restoration module includes

a timestamp log information requesting unit that requests the resource connection map logging information of a specific timestamp from the home/building resource management module,

a current map and log map analyzing unit that compares and analyzes differences between the resource connection map of the specific timestamp requested by the home/building resource management module through the timestamp log information requesting unit and the current resource connection map, and

a fault analysis result processing and resource state restoring unit that receives results analyzed through the current map and log map analyzing unit in a stepwise manner to thereby determine the cause of an error or restore the current resource state to the previous state.

7. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 6, wherein the current map and log map analyzing unit analyzes a change in relation between a log resource connection map of the specific timestamp and the current resource connection map, or analyzes a change between the current resource state and a log resource state of the specific timestamp.

8. The home/building fault analysis system of claim 6, wherein the fault analysis result processing and resource state restoring unit restores all the resources of the resource connection map to a resource state when being logged, or restores all the resources to a resource state when being logged in a stepwise manner along the resource connection map.

9. A method for analyzing faults of resources within a home/building using a resource connection map log in a system including a plurality of resources and a home/building log-based fault management device, the method comprising:

collecting information of each of the resources through the home/building log-based fault management device, and generating and maintaining a resource connection map based on the collected information of each of the resources;

comparing and analyzing, when a fault is generated, a previous integrated resource state and a current resource state using resource connection map logging information to thereby provide, to a user, state information of the resource in which information having high association with a fault resource is mainly changed; and

performing effective fault analysis and process by restoring the current resource state to the previous resource state, as necessary,

wherein, in the comparing and analyzing, the home/building log analysis is performed through the home/building log-based fault management device by analyzing a change in relation between a current resource connection map and a log resource connection map, or analyzing a change between a current resource state and a log resource state.

10. The method of claim 9, after the collecting of the information, further comprising:

requesting home/building fault analysis from the home/building log-based fault management device when resource control execution has failed, or requesting home/building fault analysis when receiving an error message.

11. The method of claim 9, after the collecting of the information, the method further comprising:

requesting, from the home/building log-based fault management device, home/building log with respect to a point of time when the resource control execution has succeeded, or requesting home/building log with respect to a point of time when the resource exists most recently.

12. The method of claim 9, after the comparing and analyzing, further comprising:

returning the entire log resource connection map of a point of time when the home/building log is requested through the home/building log-based fault management device, or returning only relevant information about the requested resource of the point of time when the home/building log is requested.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein, in the comparing and analyzing, a criterion of the home/building log analysis is determined by a predetermined policy using characteristics of the resource connection map.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the predetermined policy is determined by any one of a depth of the resource map, a relation type, a target domain, and a policy provided by the user.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein, after the comparing and analyzing, a home/building resource state restoration requesting method is performed through the home/building log-based fault management device by requesting restoration of all the resources of the resource connection map to a resource state when being logged, or by requesting restoration to a resource state when being logged in a stepwise manner along the resource connection map.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein, after the comparing and analyzing, a home/building resource state restoration requesting method is performed through the home/building log-based fault management device by restoring a static state of the resource, or restoring a dynamic state of the resource.

17. A method for analyzing faults of resources within a home/building using a resource connection map log in a system including a plurality of resources and a home/building log-based fault management device, the method comprising:

collecting information of each of the resources through the home/building log-based fault management device, and generating and maintaining a resource connection map based on the collected information of each of the resources;

comparing and analyzing, when a fault is generated, a previous integrated resource state and a current resource state using resource connection map logging information to thereby provide, to a user, state information of the resource in which information having high association with a fault resource is mainly changed; and

performing effective fault analysis and process by restoring the current resource state to the previous resource state, as necessary,

wherein, after the comparing and analyzing, a home/building resource state restoration requesting method is performed through the home/building log-based fault management device by requesting restoration of all the resources of the resource connection map to a resource state when being logged, or by requesting restoration to a resource state when being logged in a stepwise manner along the resource connection map.