JP6160146B2 - Monitoring system and monitoring method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a monitoring system and a monitoring method, and more particularly to a monitoring system and a monitoring method that use an imaging unit to acquire the operating state of a monitoring target device.

  In Patent Document 1, operational status information related to operational statuses of a plurality of servers is sent to a monitoring device via a communication network, and the operational status information sent from each of the servers is provided on the monitoring device. It describes the technology to display.

  In Patent Document 2, a participant in a video conference wears a microphone having a lamp that is turned on when talking, and detects the lighting of the lamp by analyzing a video of a camera that captures the state of the conference. A technique for pointing the camera in the direction of the lit lamp when the lighting of the lamp is detected is described.

  Furthermore, in Patent Document 3, the operating state of the electric device is detected even from a remote position by applying light emitted from a light emitter whose emission color is determined according to the operating state of the electric device to light the lid portion. It describes about the technology that can grasp.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-175180 JP 09-307870 A JP 2007-025580 A

  However, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, when a failure occurs in the communication network connecting each server and the monitoring device, the operation status information cannot be transmitted, and thus the operating status of each server cannot be grasped. There is a problem.

  Further, Patent Document 2 does not describe any technique for monitoring the operation state of the monitored apparatus.

  Furthermore, Patent Document 3 has a problem that it is impossible to grasp the operating status of electrical equipment installed in a place that is more than a visible distance.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a monitoring system and a monitoring method capable of solving the above-described problems.

The monitoring system of the present invention includes:
An operating state detecting means for monitoring the operating state of the monitored device and creating operating state information indicating the operating state;
First operating state display means for converting the operating state information into a corresponding code in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule and displaying the code;
An operation state acquisition unit that captures an image of the code displayed on the first operation state display unit;
A second operation state display unit that restores the image of the code to the operation state information before conversion and displays the restored operation state information.

Furthermore, another monitoring system of the present invention provides:
An operating state detecting means for monitoring the operating state of the monitored device and creating operating state information indicating the operating state;
First operating status display means for displaying the operating status information created by the operating information detection means;
An operating state acquisition unit that photographs the operating state information displayed on the first operating state display unit;
Second operating state display means for displaying an image of the operating state information taken by the operating state acquisition means.

Moreover, the monitoring method of the present invention includes:
An operation state detection step of monitoring the operation state of the monitoring target device and creating operation state information indicating the operation state;
A first operation state display step of converting the operation state information into a corresponding code according to a predetermined conversion rule, and displaying the code on a first operation state display means;
An operation state acquisition step of capturing an image of the code displayed on the first operation state display means;
A second operation state display step of restoring the code image to the operation state information before conversion and displaying the restored operation state information on a second operation state display means.

Furthermore, another monitoring method of the present invention includes:
An operation state detection step of monitoring the operation state of the monitoring target device and creating operation state information indicating the operation state;
A first operation state display step for displaying the operation state information created in the operation state detection step on a first operation state display means;
An operation state acquisition step of photographing the operation state information displayed on the first operation state display means;
A second operation state display step of displaying an image of the operation state information captured in the operation state acquisition step on a second operation state display means.

  The present invention has an effect that even if a failure occurs in a communication network between a rack on which a monitoring target device is mounted and a monitoring device, the operating state of the monitoring target device can be known.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of each unit in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of operating state display information in the embodiment of the present invention.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

  Referring to FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, the management apparatus 100, at least one rack 200, at least one electronic device 110 mounted on the rack 200, and a list of states mounted on the top or side of the rack 200 are illustrated. The display device 120, the monitoring camera 130, and the management network 140 are configured.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of each part in this embodiment.

  The state list display device 120 includes a state determination unit 121 and a display unit 122, and is provided on the top or side of the rack 200.

  The state determination unit 121 acquires operation state information indicating an operation state of each electronic device 110 mounted on the rack 200 provided with the state determination unit 121 from the state detection unit 112, and converts the acquired operation state information in advance. According to the rule, it is converted into a corresponding two-dimensional code, and the operating state information and the code are output as operating state display information.

  The display unit 122 includes an output circuit such as a display, and displays the operation state display information output from the state determination unit 121.

  The monitoring camera 130 is connected to the management apparatus 100, images the display unit 122 of the display device 120 provided in each rack 200, and sends the captured image of the display unit 122 to the management apparatus 100.

  The management apparatus 100 includes a display unit 101, a state acquisition unit 102, an image information analysis unit 103, and an image information acquisition unit 104.

  The state acquisition unit 102 receives the operation state information acquired by the state detection unit 112 in each rack 200 from the state detection unit 112 via the network 140 and sends it to the display unit 101.

  The image information acquisition unit 104 acquires an image of each display unit 122 captured by the monitoring camera 130 from the camera 130.

  The image information analysis unit 103 acquires and analyzes the image from the acquisition unit 104, restores the two-dimensional code included in the image to the operation state information including characters that can be understood by humans, and displays the information on the display unit 101. Send it.

  The display unit 101 includes an output circuit such as a display, and displays the operation state information received from the state acquisition unit 102 and the operation state information received from the image information analysis unit 103.

  Here, the electronic device 110 is, for example, a server, a disk device, or a network device, and includes a monitoring target circuit group 111 and a state detection unit 112.

  The monitoring target circuit group 111 includes at least one electronic circuit such as a power supply circuit or a CPU.

  The state detection unit 112 monitors the operating state of each monitoring target circuit in the monitoring target circuit group 111, and acquires the operating state information indicating the operating state via the management network 140. 102 and also to the state determination unit 121 of the state list display device 120.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of the operating state display information displayed on the display unit 122 of the state list display device 120.

  Referring to FIG. 3, the operation state display information includes device identification data for identifying each electronic device 110 and operation state data indicating the operation state of each electronic device 110 (for example, “NORMAL” when the device 110 is normal). (“ERROR” if any of the monitored circuit groups 111 in the device 110 is abnormal, “OFF” if the device 110 is not powered, “usage” of the CPU in the device 110, etc.) And the operating state information composed of the device identification data and the operating state data, and a two-dimensional code obtained by converting the operating state information according to a predetermined conversion rule.

  The device identification data of the operating state display information is not data for identifying the electronic device 110 but data for identifying a position where each electronic device 110 is mounted in the rack 200 on which at least one electronic device 110 is mounted. There may be.

From FIG.
The electronic device having the identification number “device 1” is operating normally (NORMAL), and the CPU usage rate is 10%.
The electronic device having the identification number “device 2” is operating normally (NORMAL), and the CPU usage rate is 50%.
The electronic device having the identification number “device 3” has an error (ERROR) in any circuit in the monitoring target circuit group in the device, and the CPU usage rate cannot be measured (displayed as “-”). And
The electronic device having the identification number “device 4” is in a state where the power is not turned on (OFF), and the CPU usage rate cannot be measured (“−−”).
An electronic device having the identification number “device 5” has an abnormality (displayed as “ERROR”) in any of the circuits in the monitoring target circuit group in the device, and the CPU usage rate cannot be measured (“−− ")
It can be seen that the electronic devices having the identification numbers “device 6” to “device 10” are not mounted on any of the racks 200 (because operating state information is not shown).

  In FIG. 3, as the operation state display information, only whether the operation state of the device is normal or only the CPU usage rate is shown, but it is not limited thereto, and other information such as the memory usage rate is also available. You may include what shows an operating state.

  Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail.

  First, the state detection unit 112 of the electronic device 110 monitors the operation state of each monitoring target circuit in the monitoring target circuit group 111 and manages the operation state information indicating the operation state via the management network 140. The data is sent to the status acquisition unit 102 of the device 100 and also sent to the status determination unit 121 of the status list display device 120.

  Next, the state determination unit 121 of the state list display device 120 acquires operation state information indicating the operation state of each electronic device 110 mounted on the rack 200 provided with the state list display device 120 from the state detection unit 112, and acquires each acquired state. The operating state information is converted into a corresponding two-dimensional code according to a predetermined conversion rule, and the operating state information and the code are output as operating state display information.

  Next, the monitoring camera 130 takes an image of the display unit 122 of the display device 120 provided in each rack 200 and sends the taken image of the display unit 122 to the management device 100.

  The image information acquisition unit 104 of the management apparatus 100 acquires images of the respective display units 122 captured by the monitoring camera 130 from the camera 130. Then, the image information analysis unit 103 acquires and analyzes the image from the acquisition unit 104, restores the two-dimensional code included in the image to the operation state information including characters that can be understood by humans, and displays the display unit. 101.

  The display unit 101 of the management apparatus 100 normally displays the operating state information received via the network 140 to the user. At this time, some trouble occurs in the network 140 and the operating state information can be acquired. If not, the operating state information received from the image information analysis unit 103 is displayed.

  In the present embodiment, the operating state information composed of characters and the like understandable by humans is converted into a two-dimensional code. However, the image of the operating state information captured by the camera 130 is not converted into a two-dimensional code. The image may be displayed on the display unit 101 as it is, or the image may be converted into a character code that can be displayed on the display unit 101 by a character recognition technique and displayed on the display unit 101.

  In addition, the management network 140 is not only used for transmission of operating state information, but is also used for normal data exchange between a plurality of electronic devices 110.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, even if a failure occurs in the management network 140 between the rack 200 and the management apparatus 100, the operating state of the electronic device 110 mounted on the rack 200 is known. There is an effect that can be.

  The reason is that, apart from the management network 140, a network using a camera that acquires the operating state of each electronic device is provided.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Management apparatus 101 Display part 102 State acquisition part 103 Image information analysis part 104 Image information acquisition part 110 Electronic device 111 Monitoring target circuit group 112 State detection part 120 State list display apparatus 121 State determination part 122 Display part 130 Monitoring camera 140 Management network 200 racks

Claims (10)

An operating state detecting means for monitoring the operating state of the monitored device and creating operating state information indicating the operating state;
First operating state display means for converting the operating state information into a corresponding code in accordance with a predetermined conversion rule and displaying the code;
A first operating state acquisition device for capturing an image of the code displayed on the first operating state display means,
Second operating state acquisition means for acquiring the operating state information created by the operating state detection means;
If the second operating state acquisition unit displays the operating state information acquired or the second operating state acquisition unit cannot acquire the operating state information, the operation state information before conversion of the image of the code is performed. And a second operating state display means for displaying the restored operating state information. A monitoring system comprising: An operating state detecting means for monitoring the operating state of the monitored device and creating operating state information indicating the operating state;
First operating status display means for displaying the operating status information created by the operating information detection means;
A first operational state obtaining means for capturing the operation state information displayed on the first operating state display means,
Second operating state acquisition means for acquiring the operating state information created by the operating state detection means;
To display the operating status information to which the second operational state obtaining means obtains, when said second operating state acquisition means can not acquire the working state information, the operating state of the first operating state acquisition device have taken A monitoring system comprising: second operating state display means for displaying an image of information. The first operating state acquisition means includes
Analyzing the captured image of the operating state information, converting the operating state information into a character code that can be displayed on the second operating state display means,
The second operating state display means is
The operation state information is displayed based on a character code converted by the first operation state acquisition unit , instead of the image of the operation state captured by the first operation state acquisition unit. 2. The monitoring system according to 2. The operating state information is
The monitoring system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, comprising device identification data for identifying a device to be monitored and operation state data indicating an operation state of the device to be monitored. The operating state information is
Instead of the device identification data for identifying the monitoring target device, position identification data for identifying a position where each of the monitoring target devices is mounted in a mounting device on which a plurality of the monitoring target devices are mounted; The monitoring system according to claim 4 , comprising operating state data indicating an operating state. An operation state detection step of monitoring the operation state of the monitoring target device and creating operation state information indicating the operation state;
A first operation state display step of converting the operation state information into a corresponding code according to a predetermined conversion rule, and displaying the code on a first operation state display means;
A first operating state acquisition step of capturing an image of the code displayed on the first operating state display means;
A second operating state acquisition step of acquiring the operating state information created in the operating state detection step;
If the operating state information acquired in the second operating state acquisition step is displayed or the operating state information cannot be acquired in the second operating state acquisition step, the operation state information before conversion of the image of the code And a second operation state display step for displaying the restored operation state information on the second operation state display means. An operation state detection step of monitoring the operation state of the monitoring target device and creating operation state information indicating the operation state;
A first operation state display step for displaying the operation state information created in the operation state detection step on a first operation state display means;
A first operating state acquisition step of photographing the operating state information displayed on the first operating state display means;
A second operating state acquisition step of acquiring the operating state information created in the operating state detection step;
If the operating state information acquired in the second operating state acquisition step is displayed or the operating state information cannot be acquired in the second operating state acquisition step, the operating state captured in the first operating state acquisition step And a second operation state display step of displaying an information image on the second operation state display means. In the first operating state acquisition step,
Analyzing the captured image of the operating state information, converting the operating state information into a character code that can be displayed on the second operating state display means,
In the second operating state display step,
The operation state information is displayed based on the character code converted in the first operation state acquisition step instead of the image of the operation state captured in the first operation state acquisition step. 7. The monitoring method according to 7. The operating state information is
The monitoring method according to any one of claims 6 to 8, comprising device identification data for identifying a device to be monitored and operation state data indicating an operation state of the device to be monitored. The operating state information is
Instead of the device identification data for identifying the monitoring target device, position identification data for identifying a position where each of the monitoring target devices is mounted in a mounting device on which a plurality of the monitoring target devices are mounted; The monitoring method according to claim 9 , comprising operation state data indicating an operation state.

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