JP5815583B2 - Information processing apparatus and program - Google Patents

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to an information processing apparatus and a program.

  In stores such as convenience stores and supermarkets that perform settlement processing at the time of sale at a POS terminal (Point Of Sales), the POS terminal is controlled by a store controller and information is exchanged with a head office server.

  The store controller as described above performs a process called a scheduled operation. The scheduled work is a set of programs that are sequentially started from a predetermined time every day or a fixed day of the week. Each of these programs starts and terminates, and edits the log file where necessary, and records the log. These logs are used for evaluating the program, that is, for calculating the time required for finding and processing the abnormality.

  When a program is updated or when a problem occurs in a store, the time required for processing the program is obtained from a log, and the processing time of the latest program and the previous generation program may be compared. Conventionally, the operation of displaying logs extracted as processing time estimation materials from log files in a collective manner for easy comparison between generations is manual and complicated.

The information processing apparatus according to the embodiment includes an extraction unit, a recording unit, a storage unit, and a display unit. The extraction means extracts a log as a material for estimating the processing time of each program from one or a plurality of log files that are edited according to a plurality of programs that are sequentially started from a predetermined time on a daily or fixed day of the week . The recording means estimates the processing time of the program from the log and summarizes it in a record. The storage means stores the records over a plurality of generations of the program. A display means displays the said record for every day, the average of the said record, and the average of the record of another generation so that a comparison is possible.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically illustrating a configuration of a business management system in the embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the monitoring server according to the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of processing performed by the control unit of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a screen display example according to the first comparison method of the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen display example according to the second comparison method of the embodiment.

  Embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing the configuration of the business management system 100. The business management system 100 includes a monitoring server 1, a headquarter server 2, a store controller 3, and a dedicated line 4. The monitoring server 1 is an example of an information processing device.

  The headquarter server 2 includes a control unit (not shown) having a computer configuration including a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like. The control unit of the headquarter server 2 transmits / receives data to / from the store controller 3 of each store via the dedicated line 4 and manages each store. The management performed by the control unit includes, for example, management of sales data of each store, transmission of a product master file to the store controller 3, and the like.

  The store controller 3 has a product master file for storing various product information sold in the store, and is connected to a plurality of POS terminals (not shown) via a LAN (Local Area Network). Centrally manages POS terminals and takes charge of overall control of the POS system.

  Further, the store controller 3 includes a control unit (not shown) having a computer configuration including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like. The control unit of the store controller 3 performs a scheduled operation. Scheduled work is a work performed by a set of programs that are started sequentially from a predetermined time every day or a fixed day of the week. Examples of such work include update of a product master file and backup of data. is there. Then, one or more log files are edited by this scheduled operation. Then, the control unit of the store controller 3 transmits the log file to the headquarter server 2 in the scheduled work.

  The log file is edited by the control unit according to the log writing logic embedded in each program. The log is written together with the time stamp of each program at the start and end of each program, and other necessary places (for example, places where recording is required, such as updating some table).

  A POS (Point Of Sales) terminal is assigned a unique register number and arranged at a checkout location. The cashier performs sales processing using these POS terminals.

  When the POS terminal reads the product code added to each product in the form of a bar code or a two-dimensional code, the POS terminal makes an inquiry about the product by notifying the store controller 3 of the product code. The store controller 3 searches the product master file in response to an inquiry from the POS terminal, reads product information (such as unit price) corresponding to the product code, and transmits it to the POS terminal.

  The POS terminal acquires the unit price of the product corresponding to the product code from the store controller 3. In addition, the POS terminal calculates the total amount of these products based on the unit price and the number of products to be purchased, performs processing such as settlement, generates sales data, and then stores the sales data at a predetermined timing. Transmit to the controller 3.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the monitoring server 1. The monitoring server 1 includes a control unit 11, a bus 12, a communication interface 13 connectable to the dedicated line 4, an I / O device control unit 14, an operation input unit 15, a display unit 16, and a storage unit 17. It has.

  The control unit 11 includes a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, and the like. The operation input unit 15 includes a keyboard, a mouse, and the like. The display unit 16 is configured by a display device such as a CRT or LCD. The storage unit 17 is configured by a storage device such as an HDD or a flash memory.

  The control unit 11 communicates with the head office server 2 via the communication interface 13 connected to the bus 12. In addition, an operation input unit 15, a display unit 16, and a storage unit 17 are connected to the control unit 11 via a bus 12 and an I / O device control unit 14.

  The storage unit 17 stores various programs executed by the control unit 11 and various setting information used for executing the programs. In addition, the storage unit 17 includes a log file storage unit 31 and an extracted log storage unit 32.

  The log file storage unit 31 stores a log file acquired from the store controller 3 via the headquarter server 2. The extracted log storage unit 32 stores a record that summarizes the log extracted from the log file and the processing time of each program estimated from the log.

  For example, when a program is revised, the log file storage unit 31 stores log files of successive programs. That is, the log file storage unit 31 stores a plurality of generations of log files. Similarly, the extracted log accumulation unit 32 accumulates records of successive programs. That is, the extraction log storage unit 32 stores a plurality of generations of records.

  Here, the scheduled work may be different for each day of the week. Therefore, the log file storage unit 31 and the extraction log storage unit 32 store, for example, logs and extracted logs (records) for a plurality of consecutive days in order to facilitate data comparison. The consecutive multiple days may be, for example, five days from Monday to Friday, or seven days from Sunday to Saturday. In addition, there is almost no business difference for each day of the week, and for the purpose of smoothing the data amount difference depending on the sales state depending on the day, it is considered that the consecutive multiple days may be 3 to 4 days.

  The control unit 11 cooperates with a predetermined program stored in the storage unit 17 to obtain an acquisition unit 21, an extraction unit 22, a recording unit 23, a storage unit 24, a display unit 25, an averaging unit 26, a difference acquisition unit 27, And the alerting | reporting means 28 is implement | achieved.

The acquisition unit 21 acquires the log file of the store controller 3 from the headquarter server 2 via the communication interface 13 and stores the log file in the log file storage unit 31.
The extraction unit 22 extracts a log that is a material for estimating the processing time of each program from the log file.

  More specifically, the extraction unit 22 extracts a desired log by performing a so-called grep process on the log file based on a keyword. The grep process is a search process using a regular expression. The keyword is a normalized character string specified by the log writing logic. The log writing logic is embedded in each program in accordance with a predetermined rule. For example, “START” or “END” is added to the processing name as in the “name” column in the leftmost column of the processing time list in FIG. 4 (described later), and the system time is added as a time stamp. It is added.

  The recording unit 23 temporarily stores the log extracted by the extracting unit 22 in a temporary memory using a partial area of the storage unit 17. At that time, the recording unit 23 records the logs in a predetermined format. The predetermined format is, for example, a format that matches a field configuration of a table described later. At this time, the recording means 23 takes the difference of the system time from successive logs, and uses this difference as an estimated value of the processing time of each program, and also summarizes the estimated value of the processing time of each program together with the log. The recording means 23 summarizes each log so that the estimated value of the processing time is added to one record of the table.

  The storage unit 24 stores the record in the table of the extracted log storage unit 32.

  The display means 25 reads the record from the table and displays it on the display unit 16. At that time, the display means 25 arranges the records of a plurality of generations and the records of a plurality of consecutive days so that they can be compared, and also displays the display data in which the calculated values of the averaging means 26 and the difference acquisition means 27 described later are also comparable. Is displayed on the display unit 16.

  The averaging means 26 calculates the average value of the recordings of a plurality of generations read by the display means 25. Further, the averaging means 26 calculates the average value of the records for a plurality of consecutive days read by the display means 25.

  The difference acquisition unit 27 calculates the difference between the generations of the plurality of generations of records read by the display unit 25, the difference between the consecutive days of the recording of the plurality of days, and the difference of the average value calculated by the averaging unit 26. Get about.

  The notifying unit 28 notifies a record in which the difference calculated by the difference acquiring unit 27 is larger than a predetermined value, that is, a program in which processing time is separated between generations. As a notification method, for example, a highlighting process for a point of interest, that is, a method for coloring the display content by the display unit 16 to make it noticeable (see FIG. 4 and FIG. 5), or a method for transmitting by alert sound And so on.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing performed by the control unit 11.
The control unit 11 (acquisition means 21) first acquires the log file of the store controller 3 from the headquarter server 2 (step S1). Next, the control part 11 (extraction means 22) extracts a target location from a log file (step S2). The target location is a log that is a material for estimating the processing time of each program.

  Then, the control unit 11 (the recording unit 23 and the storage unit 24) stores the estimated processing time of the program that has written the log in the log and stores it in the storage unit 17 (the extracted log storage unit 32).

Subsequently, the control unit 11 (the display unit 25, the average unit 26, and the difference acquisition unit 27) creates image data (contents will be described in detail later) shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 (step S3).
Then, the control unit 11 (notification unit 28) performs a highlight process on the target portion of the image data (step S4), and causes the display unit 16 to display the image data (step S5).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a screen display example using the first comparison method, and FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen display example using the second comparison method. Both are examples in which a table is displayed on the display unit 16. The table of FIG. 4 shows a comparison of processing times by different generation program groups on the same day and a combination of differences between generations arranged for a plurality of days, and also shows the average of the plurality of days and the average generation difference. The table in FIG. 5 shows the processing time for each day by a program group of a generation and the average value thereof, and the final average value in the case of another generation program group.

First, the “processing time list” table of FIG. 4 will be described from the left end of the column. The “name” column indicates the name of each program.
In the next “content” column, an outline of the processing contents of each program is shown. Next, the time stamp (system time) and the required time (calculated by the recording means 23) of each process by a program group of a generation (version) on a certain day are shown. Next, the time stamp and required time of each process by the different generation program group on the same day are shown. And the difference of the required time between the generations of a program is shown.

The comparative display of different generation program groups on a certain day is shown side by side for a plurality of days (four days from “XXXX / XX / X1” to “XXXX / XX / X4” in FIG. 4). At the last right end, the average required time for a plurality of days shown on the left is shown for each generation of the program group, and the generation difference of the average required time is also shown.
Below the table above, the total required time is shown for the whole and for each subdivision.

  Next, the highlight process will be described. The notifying unit 28 highlights the “required time” of a row (program) in which the value of the “difference” column is larger than a predetermined value. For example, in FIG. 4, “required time” and “difference” in which the absolute value of the “difference” column is “0:00:05” or more are highlighted. Here, in this example, the difference of the last day "XXXX / XX / X4" is "-0: 00: 03" and the absolute value is less than "0:00:05", but the same Since the absolute value of “Difference” is “0:00:05” or more on the first day “XXXX / XX / X1” of the row, the user is also highlighted on the last day “XXXX / XX / X4”. Are easy to compare. The same applies to the average value on the right side of the last day “XXXX / XX / X4”.

  As a result, for example, “Backup” of “Process B-2” seems to have increased the processing time by updating the program group according to the first day data, but conversely the processing time for the last day data. In addition, it is easy to obtain information that the average value has almost no difference in processing time between program generations.

Next, a specific example of highlight will be described. For example, if the table is mainly indicated by a black line and characters on a white background, a highlight process is performed such as coloring the background color of the corresponding portion to be conspicuous, for example, bright yellow. Needless to say, other color combinations may be used in the implementation.
As specific examples of other highlights, for example, the background color and the character color of the corresponding part are reversed from those of the other parts, the corresponding part is shown in bold, and the border line of the corresponding part is bold. It is done.

Next, the “processing time list” table in FIG. 5 will be described.
The difference between the program generations is confirmed for each day in FIG. 4, whereas in FIG. In the case where there is almost no difference in scheduled work depending on the day of the week, the example of FIG.

  Further, the comparison method shown in FIG. 4 may be applied when used carefully in a test environment, and the comparison method shown in FIG. 5 may be used separately for confirmation work at a laboratory.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the processing times of the respective generations of the program in the case of program update or the like can be provided together in an easily comparable manner. In addition, by acquiring and displaying the difference, it becomes easier to compare the generations of programs. Furthermore, a noticed location can be notified.

  In the present embodiment, the log file storage unit 31 and the extraction log storage unit 32 are provided so that both the log file and the extraction log are stored in the storage unit 17. Either one may be accumulated, or may not be accumulated in the storage unit 17 and may be acquired from the headquarter server 2 each time it is used.

The information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a control device such as a CPU, a main storage device such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM, an external storage device such as an HDD and a CD drive device, and a display device such as a display device. It has an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, and has a hardware configuration using a normal computer.
A program executed by the information processing apparatus of the present embodiment is a file in an installable format or an executable format, and is a computer such as a CD-ROM, a flexible disk (FD), a CD-R, a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk). It is recorded on a readable recording medium and provided.
Further, the program executed by the information processing apparatus of the present embodiment may be stored on a computer connected to a network such as the Internet and provided by being downloaded via the network. The program executed by the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment may be configured to be provided or distributed via a network such as the Internet.
Further, the program of this embodiment may be configured to be provided by being incorporated in advance in a ROM or the like.
The program executed by the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment has a module configuration including the above-described units (acquisition unit, extraction unit, recording unit, storage unit, display unit, averaging unit, difference acquisition unit, and notification unit). As actual hardware, a CPU (processor) reads out and executes a program from a main storage device or an external storage device, and the above-described units are loaded on the main storage device, and an extraction unit, a recording unit, a storage unit, Display means, difference acquisition means, and notification means are generated on the main memory.

  Although several embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Monitoring server (information processing apparatus), 21 ... Acquisition means, 22 ... Extraction means, 23 ... Recording means, 24 ... Storage means, 25 ... Display means, 27 ... Difference acquisition means, 28 ... Notification means

JP-A-7-244653 JP 2008-210135 A

Claims (6)

An extraction means for extracting a log as an estimation material of the processing time of each program from one or a plurality of log files edited according to a plurality of programs that are sequentially started from a predetermined time of a day or a fixed day ;
Recording means for estimating the processing time of the program from the log and collecting it in a record;
Storage means for storing the records over multiple generations of the program;
The recording and daily, and the mean of the recording, and display means for displaying comparable side by side and the average of the recording of another generation,
An information processing apparatus comprising: A difference acquisition means for acquiring a difference in processing time between the generations to be displayed by the display means;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display unit also displays the difference when displaying the record. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an informing unit that informs about the program whose processing time is long between generations of the program when the recording is displayed. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the notification unit notifies the display contents by coloring them to make them stand out. The accumulation means accumulates the records for a plurality of consecutive days,
An average means for calculating the average of the differences over the plurality of days for each generation;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display unit also displays an average value obtained by the averaging unit. Computer
An extraction means for extracting a log as an estimation material of the processing time of each program from one or a plurality of log files edited according to a plurality of programs that are sequentially started from a predetermined time of a day or a fixed day ;
Recording means for estimating the processing time of the program from the log and collecting it in a record;
Storage means for storing the records over multiple generations of the program;
The recording and daily, and the mean of the recording, and display means for displaying comparable side by side and the average of the recording of another generation,
Program to make it work.

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