MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

• US 20110083129A1
• Filed: 10/01/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: MASAKI, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US12/896,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20110083129A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57

Abstract

By having a version information storage section that stores respective version information on the program installed in the data relay apparatus; a requirement information storage section that stores, for each of the plurality of versions of the program, requirement information for changing that version to a different version; a confirmation section that checks whether a version of the program application of which is instructed can be applicable to the data relay apparatuses by looking up the version information stored in the version information storage section and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storage section; and an install processing section that installs, in response to the confirmation section determining that the program is applicable, the program in the instructed version to the data relay apparatuses, the labor for the maintenance is reduced and thee maintenance cost is reduced.

Claims

1. A management system for managing, in a data transmission system to which a data relay apparatus is connected, a program for the data relay apparatus, comprising:

a program storage section that stores a plurality of versions of the program;

a version information storage section that stores version information on the program installed in the data relay apparatus;

a requirement information storage section that stores, for each of the plurality of versions of the program, requirement information for changing that version to a different version;

an instruction information entry section that receives version information of the version of the program to be applied to the data relay apparatus as instruction information;

a confirmation section that checks whether the version of the program instructed by the instruction information received through the instruction information entry section can be applicable to the data relay apparatus by looking up the version information stored in the version information storage section and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storage section; and

an install processing section that installs, in response to the confirmation section determining that the program is applicable, the program in the instructed version to the data relay apparatus.

2. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising a selection section that selects the program in another version applicable to the data relay apparatus on the basis of the requirement information, in response to the confirmation section determining that the program in the instructed version is not applicable,

wherein the install processing section installs the program in the instructed version after installing the version of the program selected by the selection section.

3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein order information indicating orders of the plurality of versions of the program is assigned to the program in each version, and

the requirement information includes the step count information related to each version of the program, the step count information indicating a count of at least one step that can be directly changed to, the step count being counted from the each version in accordance with the order.

4. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first management apparatus that is provided in each of at least one predetermined management region including a plurality of data relay apparatuses, and is communicatively connected to the plurality of data relay apparatuses in the management region;

a second management apparatus that is communicatively connected to the instruction information entry section and the at least one first management apparatus,

wherein the first management apparatus comprises the version information storage section, the requirement information storage section, the confirmation section, and the install processing section, and

the second management apparatus notifies the second management apparatus with the instruction information received through the instruction information entry section.

5. A management apparatus for managing, in a data transmission system to which a plurality of data relay apparatuses are connected, a program for the data relay apparatuses, comprising:

a version information storage section that stores respective version information on the program installed in each of the data relay apparatuses;

a requirement information storage section that stores, for each of the plurality of versions of the program, requirement information for changing that version to a different version;

a confirmation section that checks whether a version of the program application of which is instructed can be applicable to the data relay apparatuses by looking up the version information stored in the version information storage section and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storage section; and

an install processing section that installs, in response to the confirmation section determining that the program is applicable, the program in the instructed version to the data relay apparatuses.

6. The management apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a selection section that selects the program in another version applicable to the data relay apparatuses on the basis of the requirement information, in response to the confirmation section determining that the program in the instructed version is not applicable,

wherein the install processing section installs the program in the instructed version after installing the version of the program selected by the selection section.

7. The management apparatus according to claim 5, wherein order information indicating orders of the plurality of versions of the program is assigned to the program in each version, and

the requirement information includes the step count information related to each version of the program, the step count information indicating a count of at least one step that can be directly changed to, the step count being counted from the each version in accordance with the order.

8. A management method for managing, in a data transmission system to which a plurality of data relay apparatuses are connected, a program for the data relay apparatuses, comprising:

a confirmation step that confirms, for a version of the program instructed by version information of the version of the program to be applied to the data relay apparatuses as instruction information, whether the version of the program can be applicable to the data relay apparatuses by looking up respective version information on the program installed in each of the data relay apparatuses and, for each of the plurality of versions of the program, requirement information for changing that version to a different version; and

an install processing step that installs, in response to the confirmation step determining that the program is applicable, the program in the instructed version to the data relay apparatuses.

9. The management method according to claim 8, further comprising a selection step that selects the program in another version applicable to the data relay apparatuses on the basis of the requirement information, in response to the confirmation step determining that the program in the instructed version is not applicable,

wherein the install processing step installs the program in the instructed version after installing the version of the program selected by the selection step.

10. The management method according to claim 8, wherein order information indicating orders of the plurality of versions of the program is assigned to the program in each version, and

the requirement information includes the step count information related to each version of the program, the step count information indicating a count of at least one step that can be directly changed to, the step count being counted from the each version in accordance with the order.

11. A computer readable recording medium recording a management program making a computer execute a management function for managing, in a data transmission system to which a plurality of data relay apparatuses are connected, a program for the data relay apparatuses,

the management program making the computer execute:

a confirmation step that confirms, for a version of the program instructed by version information of the version of the program to be applied to the data relay apparatuses as instruction information, whether the version of the program can be applicable to the data relay apparatuses by looking up respective version information on the program installed in each of the data relay apparatuses and, for each of the plurality of versions of the program, requirement information for changing that version to a different version; and

an install processing step that installs, in response to the confirmation step determining that the program is applicable, the program in the instructed version to the data relay apparatuses.

12. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 11 having a management program recorded thereon, wherein

the management program makes the computer further execute a selection step that selects the program in another version applicable to the data relay apparatuses on the basis of the requirement information, in response to the confirmation step determining that the program in the instructed version is not applicable,

wherein the install processing step installs the program in the instructed version after installing the version of the program selected by the selection step.

13. The computer readable recording medium according to claim 11 having a management program recorded thereon, wherein order information indicating orders of the plurality of versions of the program is assigned to the program in each version, and

the requirement information includes the step count information related to each version of the program, the step count information indicating a count of at least one step that can be directly changed to, the step count being counted from the each version in accordance with the order.