System and program for managing management target system

• US 9,958,843 B2
• Filed: 11/07/2012
• Issued: 05/01/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamasaki, Kenta, Miyaki, Mariko, Shiga, Yoko, Morimura, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHREWSBURY, NATHAN K
• Application Number:
  US14/427,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,001 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/321 Display for diagnostics, e.g. diagnostic result display, self-test user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/069 using logs of notifications; Post-processing of notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5032 Generating service level reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/067 using time frame reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring

Abstract

A management system has a topology display screen of a management target system with an area, where icons of system components are typically displayed in the related art, which is embedded and displayed with a graph of a monitor value of the system component. A band having a predetermined width is displayed to show a relation between system display objects indicating the system components. The width of the band is determined by the number of requests which are transmitted or received by the system components. When a time-sequential graph of the monitor value of a system component is displayed, a vertical bar which can be operated by an input/output device is displayed in the graph. When the operation of the vertical bar is detected, an icon indicating integrity of the management target system at a time indicated by the vertical bar is displayed in the vicinity of the vertical bar.

Claims

1. A management system which manages a management target system, comprising:

a storage resource configured to store a management program;

a CPU configured to execute the management program; and

an input/output device,

wherein the CPU, when the management program is executed, is caused to;

repeatedly receive a plurality of monitor values from a plurality of system components, one or more of the system components monitoring a plurality of items, included in the management target system so as to store a history of the respective monitor values in the storage resource;

display a plurality of system display objects indicating the system components on the input/output device;

display a plurality of relations between the plurality of system display objects indicating the system components, and display a plurality of graphs of the history of the monitor values which have been acquired from the system components indicated by the system display objects on the input/output device, the graphs being displayed on corresponding ones of the system display objects and containing the history of monitor values of one of the system components indicated by one of the system display objects;

detect a first trigger for changing a first graph, which is displayed in a first system display object among the system display objects indicating a first system component among the system components, from a first item to a second item among the plurality of items;

change the display of the first graph from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the first system display object;

select a second system display object among the system display objects indicating a second system component among the system components and relating to the first system component in response to the detection of the first trigger;

change the display of a second graph among the graphs which is displayed in the second system display object from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the second system display object;

detect a second trigger for displaying detailed information of the first system component;

magnify a size of the first system display object by using an animation, and display the detailed information in the magnified first system display object; and

move a position of the second system display object so as not to be overlapped with the magnified first system display object.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the change of the display of the graph included in the first system display object is performed by rotating the first system display object, which is a three-dimensional shape, by a multiple of 90°

so as to be switched from the graph of the first item which is displayed on a first outer side surface of the three-dimensional shape to the graph of the second item which is displayed on a second outer side surface of the three-dimensional shape.

3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the CPU is further caused to:

move the second system display object in an upper direction in a case where the second system display object is displayed to an upper side of the first system display object,

move the relevant system display object in a lower direction in a case where the second system display object is displayed to a lower side of the first system display object,

move the second system display object move in a left direction in a case where the second system display object is displayed to a left side of the first system display object, and

move the second system display object in a right direction in a case where the second system display object is displayed to a right side of the first system display object.

4. The management system according to claim 3, wherein the CPU is further caused to:

detect a third trigger for displaying additional detailed information of the first system component after the magnification of the first system display object, and

display the additional detailed information of the first system component in an overlapping manner with at least one other of the system display objects.

5. The management system according to claim 4, wherein the CPU is further caused to:

receive information with respect to a request transmitted or received within a unit time by the first system component, and

determine a width of a band indicating the respective relation between the first system component and another one of the system components based on at least a number of requests, the band being displayed between the first system display object and the other one of the system display objects or an outside of the management target system, and

wherein each of the relations is indicated by a respective band having a determined width.

6. The management system according to claim 5, wherein the CPU is further caused to:

specify a request from among the requests according to a predetermined process, and

change a color of the band indicating the respective relation between the first system display object and the other one of the system display objects or the outside of the management target system based on the specified request.

7. The management system according to claim 6, wherein the specified request is filtered under a predetermined condition from all of the requests which are received or transmitted by the first system component.

8. The management system according to claim 4, wherein the CPU is further caused to:

display the additional detailed information or the monitor values as a time-sequential graph,

display a vertical bar in the time-sequential graph,

when an operation of the vertical bar is detected by the input/output device, specify a time indicated by the vertical bar after the operation,

determine an integrity of a response to the request of the specified time based on a reference for determining the integrity of the response to the request received by the management target system from the outside, and

display an icon indicating the determined integrity over or near the vertical bar.

9. The management system according to claim 8, wherein the time-sequential graph indicates an estimated value which is calculated based on the monitor values from a previous time in the past up to a current time,

in a case where the specified time is in the past, the determination of the integrity is made based on at least the monitor values of the past, and

in a case where the specified time is in the future, the determination on the integrity is made based on the estimated value.

10. A method for managing a management target system by a management system, the management system performing the method comprising:

repeatedly receiving a plurality of monitor values from a plurality of system components, one or more of the system components monitoring a plurality of items, included in the management target system so as to store a history of the respective monitor values in the storage resource;

displaying a plurality of system display objects indicating the system components on the input/output device;

displaying a plurality of relations between the plurality of system display objects indicating the system components, and displaying a plurality of graphs of the history of the monitor values which have been acquired from the system components indicated by the system display objects on the input/output device, the graphs being displayed on corresponding ones of the system display objects and containing the history of monitor values of one of the system components indicated by one of the system display objects;

detecting a first trigger for changing a first graph, which is displayed in a first system display object among the system display objects indicating a first system component among the system components, from a first item to a second item among the plurality of items;

changing the display of the first graph from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the first system display object;

selecting a second system display object among the system display objects indicating a second system component among the system components and relating to the first system component in response to the detection of the first trigger;

changing the display of a second graph among the graphs which is displayed in the second system display object from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the second system display object;

detecting a second trigger for displaying detailed information of the first system component;

magnifying a size of the first system display object by using an animation, and display the detailed information in the magnified first system display object in response to the detection of the first trigger in response to the detection of the second trigger; and

moving a position of the second system display object so as not to be overlapped with the magnified first system display object.

11. A management program of a management target system, when executed by a management system which includes a storage resource, a CPU, and an input/output device, the program causing the CPU to perform acts comprising:

repeatedly receiving a plurality of monitor values from a plurality of system components, one or more of the system components monitoring a plurality of items, included in the management target system so as to store a history of the respective monitor values in the storage resource;

displaying a plurality of system display objects indicating the system components on the input/output device;

displaying a plurality of relations between the plurality of system display objects indicating the system components, and displaying a plurality of graphs of the history of the monitor values which have been acquired from the system components indicated by the system display objects on the input/output device, each one of the graphs being displayed on corresponding ones of the system display objects and containing the history of monitor values of one of the system components indicated by one of the system display objects;

detecting a first trigger for changing a first graph, which is displayed in a first system display object among the system display objects indicating a first system component among the system components, from a first item to a second item among the plurality of items;

changing the display of the first graph from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the first system display object;

selecting a second system display object among the system display objects indicating a second system component among the system components and relating to the first system component in response to the detection of the first trigger;

changing the display of a second graph among the graphs which is displayed in the second system display object from the first item to the second item in response to the detection of the first trigger by rotating the second system display object;

detecting a second trigger for displaying detailed information of the first system component;

magnifying a size of the first system display object by using an animation, and display the detailed information in the magnified first system display object in response to the detection of the second trigger; and

moving a position of the second system display object so as not to be overlapped with the magnified first system display object.