This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority of the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2008-142843, filed on May 30, 2008, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The embodiments discussed herein are directed to a new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming program, new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus, and new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming method of adding a new trouble-handling knowledge.
Conventionally, in handling a failure as part of operation management jobs of an Information Technology (IT) system, it has been known to form a knowledge of a previous failure-handling procedure and store the knowledge in a database. For example, when a trouble occurs and its symptom is input, “trouble-handling knowledge” in which an action to be taken to the input symptom is described is sequentially output (refer to Japanese Laid-open Patent Publication No. 05-307484).
Here, for example, when a new product is introduced or new bug is discovered, it is required to add a new trouble-handling knowledge to the database in which trouble-handling knowledge is stored (hereinafter, trouble-handling knowledge DB).
Specifically, if no existing trouble-handling knowledge is found in the trouble-handling knowledge DB (see (1) of
Meanwhile, in the technology of adding a new trouble-handling knowledge to the trouble-handling knowledge DB, a procedure document for handling the new trouble has to be created by the operation manger. Therefore, the operation manager is disadvantageously required to understand the trouble-handling knowledge in detail and also to take much time and effort.
According to an aspect of the invention, a computer-readable storage medium contains instructions. The instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform generating a new trouble-handling knowledge by using information regarding a work history read from a work-history storage unit that stores the information regarding the work history; adding the new trouble-handling knowledge to an existing trouble-handling knowledge.
The object and advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by means of the elements and combinations particularly pointed out in the claims.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are not restrictive of the invention, as claimed.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be explained with reference to accompanying drawings.
In the following embodiment, the configuration of a new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus according to a first embodiment and a flow of process thereof are sequentially explained and, lastly, effects according to the first embodiment are explained.
[Configuration of the New Failure-Handling Procedure Knowledge Forming Apparatus]
First of all, by using
As depicted in
The storage unit 30 has stored therein data and programs required for various processing by the controlling unit 20, and includes in particular a work-history storage unit 31 and a handling-knowledge storage unit 32.
The work-history storage unit 31 has stored therein information regarding a history of works performed on an operation terminal. Specifically, from a history of operations of the operation terminal each performed as a handling of a new trouble by an operation manager or the like, a pair of a command and a response is structured as one “operation” to form an operation terminal log, and this log is stored by a work-history storing unit 21, which will be explained further below, in the work-history storage unit 31 (refer to
The handling-knowledge storage unit 32 has stored therein a new trouble-handling knowledge. Specifically, the handling-knowledge storage unit 32 has stored therein a trouble-handling knowledge generated by a work-history knowledge forming unit 22, which will be explained further below (refer to
The controlling unit 20 includes an internal memory for storing programs and necessary data in which various procedures are defined, thereby performing various processing. In particular, the controlling unit 20 includes the work-history storing unit 21, the work-history knowledge forming unit 22, and a knowledge adding unit 23.
The work-history storing unit 21 stores information regarding a history of works performed on the operation terminal in the work-history storage unit 31. Specifically as exemplarily depicted in
The work-history knowledge forming unit 22 generates a new trouble-handling knowledge by using the information regarding the operation history. Specifically as depicted in
For example, in the example of
The knowledge adding unit 23 adds the generated new trouble-handling knowledge to a point subsequent to a standstill point in the trouble-handling knowledge DB 40. Specifically, as exemplarily depicted in
Then, as exemplarily depicted in
Then, as exemplarily depicted in
Here, a flow of a series of processes from coming to a standstill in an existing trouble handling to adding to a new trouble-handling knowledge to the trouble-handling knowledge DB 40 is specifically explained by using an example of
The new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 then records information regarding a history of works performed on an operation terminal in the work-history storage unit 31 (refer to (4) in
That is, as depicted in
[Process by the New Failure-Handling Procedure Knowledge Forming Apparatus]
Next, by using
As depicted in the drawing, the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 initializes information regarding the previous operation (step S101) and then extracts one operation from a log (step S102). Then, the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 determines whether to have reached a log end (step S103). When determining not to have reached a log end (“No” at step S103), the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 generates one new trouble-handling knowledge (step S104), and then determines whether a response of the previous operation is present (step S105).
As a result, when determining that a response of the previous operation is present (“Yes” at step S105), the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 inputs the response of the previous operation as a condition for knowledge (step S106). On the other hand, when determining that a response of the previous operation is not present (“No” at step S105), the procedure goes to step S107.
The new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 then inputs a command of operation as a handling of knowledge (step S107), inputs the current operation to the information regarding the previous operation (step S108), and then returns to step S103, where the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 determines whether to have reached a log end (step S103). When determining to have not reached a log end (“No” at step S103), the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 repeats the processes at steps S104 through S108.
When determining to have reached a log end (“Yes” at step S103), the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 adds the generated new trouble-handling knowledge to the trouble-handling knowledge DB 40 (step S109).
As explained above, the new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus 10 generates a new trouble-handling knowledge by using the information regarding the work history, and adds the generated new trouble-handling knowledge. Therefore, a new trouble-handling knowledge can be automatically added to the trouble-handling knowledge DB 40 at little expense in time and effort.
Furthermore, according to the first embodiment, a pair of a command and a response of an immediately previous operation is taken as Rule (or symptom) and a command of an operation to be performed next is taken as Effect (or handling) to generate a new trouble-handling knowledge. Therefore, a new trouble-handling knowledge can be accurately generated from the work history.
Still further, according to the first embodiment, the generated new trouble-handling knowledge is added to a position subsequent to a standstill position of the existing trouble-handling knowledge. Therefore, for a new trouble not stored in the trouble-handling knowledge DB 40, the generated new trouble-handling knowledge can be added to a point subsequent to the standstill point of the existing trouble handling.
As the information regarding the work history, information structured by taking a pair of a command and a response from a history of operations performed by the operation terminal for new trouble handling as one operation is stored in the work-history storage unit 31. Therefore, a new trouble-handling knowledge can be accurately generated from the information regarding the work history stored in the work-history storage unit 31.
The present invention can be implemented with various different modes other than the first embodiment described above. As another embodiment of the present invention, a second embodiment is explained below.
(1) System Configuration, etc.
Each component depicted is conceptual in function, and is not necessarily physically configured as depicted. That is, the specific patterns of distribution and unification of the components are not meant to be restricted to those depicted in the drawings. All or part of the components can be functionally or physically distributed or unified in arbitrary units according to various loads and the state of use. For example, the work-history storing unit 21 and the work-history knowledge forming unit 22 may be unified together.
Furthermore, among the processes explained in the embodiments, all or part of the processes explained as being automatically performed can be manually performed, or all or part of the processes explained as being manually performed can be automatically performed through a known method. For example, when a trouble cannot be handled with any existing trouble handling and the procedure comes to a standstill, the standstill point may be automatically recorded.
(2) Program
Meanwhile, various processes explained in the embodiment can be achieved by executing a program provided in advance on a computer. Thus, in the following, by using
As depicted in the drawing, a computer 600 as a new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus is configured to have a hard disk drive (HDD) 610, a Random Access Memory (RAM) 620, a Read Only Memory (ROM) 630, and a Central Processing Unit (CPU) 640 connected via a bus 650.
In the ROM 630, a new failure-handling procedure knowledge forming program achieving functions similar to those of the embodiment is stored. That is, as depicted in
With the CPU 640 reading these programs 631 to 633 from the ROM 630 for execution, as depicted in
Also, as depicted in
The apparatus according to an embodiment can easily add a new trouble-handling knowledge to the trouble-handling knowledge database with less time and effort.
All examples and conditional language recited herein are intended for pedagogical purposes to aid the reader in understanding the invention and the concepts contributed by the inventor to furthering the art, and are to be construed as being without limitation to such specifically recited examples and conditions, nor does the organization of such examples in the specification relate to a showing of the superiority and inferiority of the invention. Although the embodiment(s) of the present inventions have been described in detail, it should be understood that the various changes, substitutions, and alterations could be made hereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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2008-142843 | May 2008 | JP | national |