JP3332239B2 - Remote installation management system and terminal system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote installation management system and a terminal in a computer network system in which a management system and a terminal system are connected by a communication line.
About the system .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 9 shows a general configuration example of a computer network system. As is apparent from the figure, the computer network system is configured by connecting a workstation (WS) to a management system constituting a host computer via a cluster, or by directly connecting a workstation to the management system.

In recent years, in computer network systems, packet communication and OSI (Open Systems Interconnection)
The number of terminal systems (workstations and clusters) connected to the management system has increased dramatically due to the spread of the open system interconnections, and the efficiency of installation work for each terminal system has increased accordingly. The demand for automation and automation is increasing.

In such a situation, a conventional remote installation method of a terminal system in a computer network system is based on an instruction to start an installation utility prepared for each terminal system from the management system. It is common to transfer the data to the terminal system and store it on an auxiliary storage device such as a magnetic disk of the terminal system, and use environment settings specific to each terminal system after the installation of the master system. The terminal system was actually started and manually performed for each terminal.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional remote installation, only the operation of storing the master system in the terminal system has been automated. However, in terms of a network system, it is meaningless just to install a master system in each terminal system. As meaningful. Therefore, there is a problem that if the environment setting unique to each terminal system must be manually performed, the efficiency of the installation work cannot be increased as a whole network system.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a remote installation management system for a computer network system capable of improving the efficiency and efficiency of installation work on a terminal system.
System and terminal system .

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a plurality of terminal systems are provided.
Remote installation management connected via communication line
And installing the plurality of terminal systems in the plurality of terminal systems.
For storing multiple versions of the master system
And environment definition processing information specific to the terminal system
Means for cataloging and storing the plurality of terminal systems,
Catalog name and installation of environment definition processing information for each system
The master system version and installation date
Means for storing , and the desired end
Master system corresponding to the version number and
How to transfer environment definition processing information corresponding to the catalog name
And instruct IPL to target terminal system
It is obtained as comprising a means. Claim 2
In the invention of the present invention, the master system and the environment definition processing information
To a remote installation management system to transfer information
Terminal system that stores the master system.
Stores the master system storage area and environment definition processing information.
Catalog storage area to be stored and the remote installation
Is started in response to an instruction from the
Master sheet transferred from the smart installation management system
System and environment definition processing information
Master system storage area and catalog storage area
And a remote installation management system.
IPL the terminal system according to the instruction from the system,
Master stored in the storage area for the master system
Load the system and store it in the catalog storage area.
And means for executing the environment definition processing information that is
You.

[0008]

[Operation] In the case of the present invention, at the same time when the master system is installed in the terminal system from the management system, the unique environment definition processing information for the terminal system is also installed. Therefore, after the end of the remote installation, the terminal system is automatically set based on the installed environment definition processing information just by activating the system, and can be operated immediately.

When the use environment of each terminal system is changed, the corresponding information in the environment definition process catalog for the target terminal system stored in the management system is changed, and then the remote installation process is performed again. It can be done simply by executing.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a computer network system configured by applying the method of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a management system constituting a host computer,
Reference numeral 2 denotes a terminal system connected to the management system 1 via the communication line 3.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a management program read and stored on the main memory of the management system 1, and instructs and monitors remote installation processing and IPL (initial program loading) processing to be described later. Reference numeral 5 denotes a master system for installation on a terminal system stored on the magnetic disk of the management system 1, and reference numeral 6 denotes an environment definition describing a unique use environment of the terminal system 2 stored on the magnetic disk of the management system 1. The processing catalog 7 is a line control program.

Reference numeral 8 denotes an installation utility stored on a magnetic disk of the terminal system 2, which is a program describing a remote installation processing operation described later. 9 is a storage area for the master system prepared on the magnetic disk of the terminal system 2, 10 is a storage area for the environment definition processing catalog prepared on the magnetic disk of the terminal system 2, and 11 is a main storage of the terminal system 2. The prepared installation utility area 12 is a line control adapter.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a definition view of the environment definition processing catalog 6 for the terminal system 2. The system administrator of the management system 1 displays a display screen (not shown).
For example, the environment definition processing catalog 6 as shown in FIG. 2 is created using this method and stored in advance on a magnetic disk.

In the case of FIG. 2, the environment definition processing catalog 6 of the terminal system 2 contains (Cat.
O. West2) has been given a catalog name,
Under this catalog name, a line device definition, a printer device definition, a catalog execution order definition, and the like for the terminal system 2 are defined. In the line device definition, line name = Lin
e 08, physical machine number = 000108, control method = CSMA / CD (carrier sense multiple access / collision detection method). In the printer device definition, the printer device name = Print
1, Physical machine number = 000A0B, Printer type = Post scrip
t) is described. The catalog execution order definition describes the execution order of the processing.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a system installation instruction view. In the case of the example of FIG. 3, a master system “system 12” is currently installed in the terminal system 2 (system name = Tokyo west 2), and the system master inventory of the management system 1 is replaced by the “system 12”. The master system “System 02” in the
2:03 am on October 20, 1991 (arrow in calendar)
It is shown that remote installation is automatically set to the terminal system 2 at 0 minutes (clock display). The instruction contents in FIG. 3 are provided by the system administrator.
It is written into the management program 4 of the management system 1.

FIG. 4 shows an example of an IPL (Initial Program Loading) instruction view for automatically starting the terminal system 2 after the remote installation processing is completed. In the case of the example of FIG. 4, the system activation for the terminal system 2 (system name = Tokyo west) is performed at 8:30 am (clock display) on October 20, 1991 (arrow in the calendar). It is shown that it has been set. This IPL instruction content is also written in the management program 4 of the management system 1 by the system administrator.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described. The management program 4 of the management system 1 uses the installation designation date set by the installation time designation in the system installation instruction view of FIG. 3, that is, October 2, 1991.
At 2:30 am on Sunday 0, the terminal system 2 automatically accesses the terminal system 2 via the communication line 3 and instructs the terminal system 2 to start the installation utility 8.

Upon receiving the instruction, the terminal system 2 activates the installation utility 8 from the fixed position on the magnetic disk, and transfers the installation utility 8 to the installation utility area 11 on the main memory and stores it. FIG. 5 shows the operation at the time of starting the installation utility. Installation utility area 1
The installation utility 8 loaded on 1 is
The installation process of the master system and the environment definition process catalog described below is started.

First, the installation utility 8
The master system 5 stored on the magnetic disk of the management system 1 is accessed via the communication line 3, and the system master "system 02" in the system master stock shown in FIG. 3 is read. Then, the read master system is transferred to and stored in the master system storage area 9 on the magnetic disk of the terminal system 2. FIG. 6 shows the operation at the time of the master system transfer.

When the installation of the master system is completed, the installation utility 8 accesses the environment definition processing catalog 6 shown in FIG. 2 stored on the magnetic disk of the management system 1 and reads it out.
Then, the read environment definition processing catalog 6 is transferred and stored in the environment definition processing catalog storage area 10 on the magnetic disk of the terminal system 2. FIG. 7 shows the operation at the time of transferring the environment definition processing catalog.

When the transfer and storage of the master system 5 and the environment definition processing catalog 6 are completed, the remote installation processing according to the present invention is completed. After the completion of the remote installation process, the terminal system 2 can be started based on the master system 5 and the environment definition process catalog 6 which have been remotely installed only by giving an IPL instruction to the terminal system 2.

For example, as shown in the IPL instruction view of FIG. 4, in the management system 1, 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 20, 1991, ie, 8 a.m. If the terminal system 2 is set to be activated at 1:30, the management system 1 starts at 8:30 am
Management program 4 accesses the terminal system 2 via the communication line 3 and sends an IPL instruction to the terminal system 2. FIG. 8 shows the operation at the time of this IPL instruction.

Upon receiving the IPL instruction from the management system 1, the terminal system 2 executes an IPL job, reads the master system stored in the master system storage area 9, transfers it to the main memory, and starts the terminal system 2. I do.
Further, as an extension of the IPL job, the environment definition processing catalog 6 which is stored in the environment definition processing catalog storage area 10 and has the setting contents illustrated in FIG.
Is read and transferred to and stored in the environment definition processing catalog area 13 on the main memory.

Then, the terminal system 2 executes the environment definition processing catalog 6 stored in the environment definition processing catalog area 13, and sets the use environment of the terminal system 2 to the state specified by the environment definition processing catalog 6. Set. After this first IPL, the terminal system 2 can operate as one node of the network system.

To change the usage environment of the terminal system 2 installed as described above, the environment definition processing catalog 6 for the terminal system 2 stored in the management system 1 is changed, and What is necessary is just to re-execute a process.

In the above embodiment, the remote installation instruction is automatically issued from the management program 4 of the management system 1 by the calendar function. However, the system administrator of the management system 1 manually gives an instruction at a designated time. Needless to say, this may be done. Further, the IPL instruction may be manually performed by the system administrator of the management system 1, automatically activated by the terminal system 2 itself, or naturally activated by the terminal user. is there.

In the above-described embodiment, the remote installation processing operation for the terminal system 2 has been described. For other terminal systems connected to the management system 1, the environment definition processing catalog 6 for each terminal system is prepared in advance. The same remote installation process as described above may be executed for each terminal system.

[0028]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, when the master system is installed in the terminal system, even the environment definition processing information unique to the terminal system from the management system is cataloged. Since the transfer is performed, the installation work of the terminal system in this type of computer network system can be made more efficient and unmanned. Further, even when the usage environment of the terminal system is changed, it is only necessary to change the environment definition processing catalog and perform the remote installation again, so that the operability can be further improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing one embodiment of a computer network system configured by applying the method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an environment definition processing catalog definition view.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a system installation instruction view.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an IPL instruction view.

FIG. 5 is an operation state diagram when the install utility is started.

FIG. 6 is an operation state diagram at the time of master system transfer.

FIG. 7 is an operation state diagram at the time of transferring an environment definition processing catalog.

FIG. 8 is an operation state diagram when an IPL is instructed.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a configuration of a computer network system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Management system 2 Terminal system 3 Communication line 4 Management program 5 Master system 6 Environment definition processing catalog 8 Installation utility 9 Storage area for master system 10 Storage area for environment definition processing catalog 11 Area for installation utility in main storage 13 Main storage Environment definition processing catalog area

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A plurality of terminal systems are connected via a communication line.
Connected remote installation management system
Te, a plurality of plate to be installed on the plurality of terminal systems
Means for storing a number of master systems, and environment definition processing information specific to the terminal system.
Means for cataloging and storing, and cataloging of environment definition processing information for each of the plurality of terminal systems.
Name and version and version of the master system to be installed.
Means for storing a designated installation date; and storing the designated installation date on the target terminal system.
Master system corresponding to the version number and corresponding to the catalog name
Means for transferring environment definition processing information to be performed, and means for instructing an IPL to a target terminal system
Remote Installation manage that comprising the, the
Stem. 2. The master system and environment definition processing information
Connected to the remote installation management system to transfer
A that terminal system, storage areas for the master system that stores master system
When a catalog for storing area for storing environment definition processing information, respond to an instruction from the remote installation management system
Started, the remote installation management system
System and environment definition processing information transferred from
Received, the storage area for the master system and
And a means for storing data in the storage area for catalogs, and responding to instructions from the remote installation management system.
IPL the terminal system, and
Loads the master system stored in the storage area
And the environment definition stored in the catalog storage area.
Means for executing processing information .