SYSTEM FOR MANAGING TASK THAT IS FOR PROCESSING TO COMPUTER SYSTEM AND THAT IS BASED ON USER OPERATION AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION RELATED TO TASK OF THAT TYPE

• US 20120066633A1
• Filed: 09/10/2010
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Saito, Takeshi, Ito, Eitaro, Nogami, Daisuke, Suzuki, Junko, Kakeda, Tomoaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,286,246 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/772
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/34 Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/00 Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units interface circuits for specific input/output devices G06F3/00 ; multiprogram control therefor G06F9/46; multiprocessor systems G06F15/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/10 Program control for peripheral devices G06F13/14 - G06F13/42 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2206/1008 Graphical user interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

The display computer displays a management screen having a first area and a second area. In the first area, information related to a computer system, and an input object for a work operation that is a user operation for registering a task of a processing to a computer system into a management computer or an object for displaying the input object are displayed. In the second area, a summary view related to at least one task registered into the management computer is displayed. The summary view has a status object for each status of task, the status object includes an object indicating a status and a value indicating a number of tasks of the status. When the management computer detects a modification of a status of each task that has been registered, the display computer updates a value of a number of tasks in the second area.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A display method implemented by a management system which includes a management computer managing a computer system as a management target and a display computer coupled to the management computer and displaying information provided from the management computer, comprising:

(a) by the display computer, displaying a management screen including a first area and a second area, wherein;

(a1) in the first area, information related to the computer system, and an input object for a work operation that is a user operation for registering at least one task of processing to the computer system into the management computer or an object for displaying the input object, are displayed, wherein each of the at least one task has a task status, chosen among a waiting status representing that an execution of said each of at least one task is waited, a running status representing that said each of at least one task is being executed, and a finished status representing that said each of at least one task has been finished; and

(a2) in the second area, a summary view related to the at least one task registered into the management computer is displayed, wherein for each of the task statuses, the summary view includes a status object, the status object includes an object indicating said each of the task statuses and a value indicating a number of tasks having said each of the task statuses,

(b) by the display computer, updating the information displayed in the first area in accordance with a user operation to the first area;

(c) by the management computer, detecting a modification of the task statuses of the at least one task that has been registered, and to the display computer, transmitting task number information indicating, for each of the task statuses, a number of tasks having said each of the task statuses; and

(d) by the display computer, receiving the task number information and updates the value indicating the number of tasks in the second area in accordance with the task number information.

17. A display method according to claim 16,

wherein the management screen is included in a Web browser screen that is displayed in the case in which a Web browser is executed by the display computer,

wherein information displayed on the management screen is information displayed in the case in which a management client program being a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is executed by the display computer,

wherein (e) the display computer displays an input object on the front of the management screen in response to the user operation to the first area, and causes the Web browser screen to be in a disable state,

wherein (f) in the case in which the work operation, including an input information, is executed to the input object displayed on the front of the management screen, the display computer transmits the input information to the management computer,

wherein (g) the management computer receives the input information and registers a new task according to the input information, wherein, the new task registered is managed as a wait state;

and

wherein (h) the display computer closes the input object displayed on the front of the management screen, increases the value indicating the number of tasks that is in the wait state in the second area, and cancels the disable state of the Web browser screen, and

wherein, in the step (c), the management computer transmits the task number information without an information receiving request from the display computer.

18. A display method according to claim 17,

wherein an alert object, which includes an object indicating an alert that occurs in the case in which a hardware failure of the computer system is detected, and which includes a value indicating a number of alerts, is displayed in the second area in addition to the status object,

wherein, in case of increasing of the value indicating the number of alerts, the display computer executes a highlighting until a specific user operation is executed for the alert object, and

wherein, in case of updating of the value indicating the number of tasks in a certain status object, the display computer executes a highlighting for a whole or a part of the certain status object and cancels the highlighting in the case in which a certain period of time elapses after the highlighting is started, even if there are no specific user operation after the highlighting.

19. A display method according to claim 18,

wherein another display computer is coupled to the management computer, and a user of the display computer and another user of the another display computer are different,

wherein the management computer manages another at least one task for the another user in addition to the at least one task for the user, and

wherein information about the at least one task for the user and another at least one task for the another user is displayed in the first area.

20. A display method according to claim 19,

wherein the computer system is a storage system that includes a plurality of logical volumes, and at least one host computer is coupled to the storage system, and

wherein the work operation to the input object executed in the step (f) is a user operation for allocating at least one of the plurality of logical volumes to any one of the at least one host computer.

21. A management system comprising:

a management computer managing a computer system as a management target; and

a display computer coupled to the management computer and displaying information that is provided from the management computer, wherein;

(a) the display computer displays a management screen including a first area and a second area, wherein;

(a1) in the first area, information related to the computer system, and an input object for a work operation that is a user operation for registering at least one task of processing to the computer system into the management computer or an object for displaying the input object, are displayed, wherein each of the at least one task has a task status, chosen among a waiting status representing that an execution of said each of at least one task is waited, a running status representing that said each of at least one task is being executed, and a finished status representing that said each of at least one task has been finished;

(a2) in the second area, a summary view related to the at least one task registered into the management computer is displayed, wherein for each of the task statuses, the summary view includes a status object, the status object includes an object indicating said each of the task statuses and a value indicating a number of tasks having said each of the task statuses,

(b) the display computer updates the information displayed in the first area in accordance with a user operation to the first area;

(c) the management computer detects a modification of the task statuses of the at least one task that has been registered, and to the display computer, transmits task number information indicating, for each of the task statuses, a number of tasks having said each of the task statuses; and

(d) the display computer receives the task number information and updates the value indicating the number of tasks in the second area in accordance with the task number information.

22. A management system according to claim 21,

wherein the management screen is included in a Web browser screen that is displayed in the case in which a Web browser is executed by the display computer,

wherein information displayed on the management screen is information displayed in the case in which a management client program that is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is executed by the display computer,

wherein (e) the display computer displays an input object on the front of the management screen in response to a user operation to the first area, and causes the Web browser screen to be in a disable state,

wherein (f) in the case in which the work operation, including an input information, is executed to the input object displayed on the front of the management screen, the display computer transmits the input information to the management computer,

wherein (g) the management computer receives the input information and registers a new task according to the input information, wherein, the new task is managed as the wait state,

wherein (h) the display computer closes the input object displayed on the front of the management screen, increases the value indicating the number of tasks that is in the wait state in the second area, and cancels the disable state of the Web browser screen, and

wherein, in the step (c), the management computer transmits the task number information without an information receiving request from the display computer.

23. A management system according to claim 21,

wherein an alert object, which includes an object indicating an alert that occurs in the case in which a hardware failure of the computer system is detected, and which includes a value indicating a number of alerts, is displayed in the second area in addition to the status object,

wherein, in the case of increasing of the value indicating the number of alerts in the alert object, the display computer executes a highlighting until a specific user operation is executed for the alert object, and

wherein, in the case of updating of the value indicating the number of tasks in a certain status object, the display computer executes a highlighting for a whole or a part of the certain status object and cancels the highlighting in the case in which a certain period of time elapses after the highlighting is started, even if there are no specific user operation after the highlighting.

24. A management system according to claim 21,

wherein another display computers is coupled to the management computer, and a user of the display computer and another user of the another display computer are different,

wherein the management computer manages another at least one task for the another user in addition to the at least one task for the user, and

wherein information about the at least one task for the user and another at least one task for the another user is displayed in the first area.

25. A management system according to claim 21,

wherein the computer system is a storage system that includes a plurality of logical volumes, and at least one host computer is coupled to the storage system, and

wherein the work operation to the input object executed in the step (f) is a user operation for allocating at least one of the plurality of logical volumes to any one of the at least one host computer.

26. A computer program to be executed by a display computer that is coupled to a management computer managing a computer system as a management target and that is a computer displaying information provided from the management computer,

the computer program making the display computer to execute the following processing:

(a) displaying a management screen including a first area and a second area, wherein

(a1) in the first area, information related to the computer system, and an input object for a work operation that is a user operation for registering at least one task of processing to the computer system into the management computer or an object for displaying the input object, are displayed, wherein each of the at least one task has a task status, chosen among a waiting status representing that an execution of said each of at least one task is waited, a running status representing that said each of at least one task is being executed, and a finished status representing that said each of at least one task has been finished; and

(a2) in the second area, a summary view related to the at least one task registered into the management computer is displayed, wherein for each of the task statuses, the summary view includes a status object, the status object includes an object indicating said each of the task statuses and a value indicating a number of tasks having said each of the task statuses,

(b) updating the information displayed in the first area in accordance with a user operation to the first area, and

(c) receiving task number information that indicates a number of tasks in accordance with a modification of the task statuses of the at least one task registered in the management computer, from the management computer, and updating the value indicating the number of tasks in the second area in accordance with the task number information.

27. A computer program according to claim 26,

wherein the computer program is a Rich Internet Application (RIA),

wherein the management screen is included in a Web browser screen that is displayed in the case in which a Web browser is executed by the display computer,

wherein the computer program making the display computer to execute the following processing:

(d) displaying an input object on the front of the management screen in response to the user operation to the first area, and making the Web browser screen to be in a disable state, and

(e) in the case in which the work operation, including an input information, is executed to the input object displayed on the front of the management screen, transmitting the input information to the management computer, closing the input object displayed on the front of the management screen, increasing the value indicating the number of tasks that is in the wait state in the second area, and cancelling the disable state of the Web browser screen.

28. A management system according to claim 26,

wherein an alert object, which includes an object indicating an alert that occurs in the case in which a hardware failure of the computer system is detected, and which includes a value indicating a number of alerts, is displayed in the second area in addition to the status object,

wherein the computer program making the display computer execute the following processing:

in the case of increasing of the value indicating the number of alerts, executing a highlighting until a specific user operation is executed for the alert object; and

in the case of updating of the value indicating the number of tasks in a certain status object, executing a highlighting for a whole or a part of the certain status object, and cancelling the highlighting in the case in which a certain period of time elapses after the highlighting is started, even if there are no specific user operation after the highlighting.

29. A computer program according to claim 26,

wherein another display computers is coupled to the management computer, and a user of the display computer and another user of the another display computer are different,

wherein the management computer manages another at least one task for the another user in addition to the at least one task for the user, and

wherein information about the at least one task for the user and another at least one task for the another user is displayed in the first area.

30. A computer program according to claim 26,

wherein the computer system is a storage system that includes a plurality of logical volumes, and at least one host computer is coupled to the storage system, and

wherein the work operation to the input object is a user operation for allocating at least one of the plurality of logical volumes to any one of the at least one host computer.