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A menu controller displays a menu of failure statuses on a monitor display. The menu controller displays a user select menu by referring to the contents of a user table storage, and controls the display attribute of the user select menu in accordance with the failure status. When a specific user is

A menu controller displays a menu of failure statuses on a monitor display. The menu controller displays a user select menu by referring to the contents of a user table storage, and controls the display attribute of the user select menu in accordance with the failure status. When a specific user is selected from the user select menu, the menu controller displays a system configuration menu showing the configuration layout of an associated user system by referring to the contents of an I/O table storage, and controls the display attribute of the constituting devices in accordance with the failure status. When a specific constituting device is selected from the system configuration menu, the menu controller displays a device information menu showing detailed information of the selected device, and detailed information.

대표청구항 ▼

A computer system monitoring apparatus comprising: status detecting means, provided for each of a plurality of target systems, for detecting an occurrence of a failure and a preventive maintenance, both associated with constituting devices in said computer system, and outputting failure/maintenance

A computer system monitoring apparatus comprising: status detecting means, provided for each of a plurality of target systems, for detecting an occurrence of a failure and a preventive maintenance, both associated with constituting devices in said computer system, and outputting failure/maintenance information via a transmission system; system display means for displaying a list of said target systems; first selecting means for selecting one of said target systems of interest from said target systems displayed by said system display means; configuration layout display means for generating and displaying a system configuration layout of said one target system selected by said first selecting means; second selecting means for selecting a constituting device of interest from said system configuration layout displayed by said configuration layout display means; statistics information display means for generating and displaying statistics information of a history of failure information of said constituting device selected by said second selecting means; first warning display means for, when informed of an occurrence of a failure satisfying a predetermined condition in a constituting device in a target system based on said failure/maintenance information, indicating an alarm by altering a display attribute of an associated target system name among names of said target systems displayed by said system display means; and second warning display means for, when informed of an occurrence of a failure satisfying a predetermined condition of a target system based on said failure/maintenance information, indicating an alarm by altering a display attribute of an associated constituting device among individual constituting devices displayed by said configuration layout display means.