Configuration information management system, method, program, and program storage device

Abstract

A method for enabling logical configuration information to be divided into those in specific ranges, thereby making it easier to manage logical configuration information of each of distributed computers. The above method, which manages configuration information of each of distributed computers, comprises a step of setting up configuration information in a specific range in a computer in the specific range; a step of requesting acquisition of configuration information set up in another computer; a step of sending configuration information set up in a subject computer to above-described another computer; and a step of updating configuration information of the subject computer with configuration information received from above-described another computer.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application No. 09 / 696,129, filed Oct., 24, 2000, which in turn claims priority from Japanese Application No. 2000-066548, filed Mar. 10, 2000.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to a configuration information management system for managing configuration information of each of distributed computers, more particularly to an effective technique preferred for a configuration information management system for setting up the configuration information divided and defined in each computer as its route information. [0003] There is a conventional method for managing configuration information of each of distributed computers collectively by setting up the whole configuration of those distributed computers in one computer referred to as a manager. In this case, the configuration information of each computer is entered to the manager manually or the manager attempts to communica...

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Benefits of technology

[0013] Under such circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique that can solve the above conventional problems and divide logical configuration information of computers into configuration information in specific ranges, thereby making it easier to manage the logical configuration information of each of distributed computers.

[0020] As described above, according to the present invention, because hierarchical information is divided into those in specific ranges and given to other computers, the logical configuration information of a system over one or a plurality of sub-managers can be managed easily. Because the hierarchical information held in each of distributed computers is minimized, the storage capacity of the information can be minimized. The number of computers whose configuration information must be updated due to partial modification of the system configuration information becomes less. Especially, this method is effective when a system is composed of many distributed computers.

[0021] As described above, according to the configuration information management system of the present invention, configuration information, after it is set up in a specific range, is reflected throughout the configuration information of the whole system, so the logical configuration information of a system can be divided into those in specific ranges and given to other computers in each specific range, thereby making it easier to manage the logical configuration information of each of those distributed computers.

Problems solved by technology

The load of the supervisor in the modification of the configuration information of the manager will thus be increased excessively.

This has been a problem of the conventional method.

The supervisor's labor has thus become a problem.

Still in this case, because the manager must set up the configuration information for each sub-manager, it has arisen another problem that the remote operation takes much time and labor from the supervisor of the manager computer.

In actual usage of the configuration information, the method is not suitable for setting up the configuration information of a system when logical configuration of the system must be managed for each use purpose of computers.

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