Information Processing System for Dynamic Setting Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing systems struggle to reflect setting information corresponding to actual environments, particularly for items like IP addresses, which cannot be prepared in advance, leading to potential mismatches between management devices and devices being managed.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that acquires prepared setting information and environmental setting information from devices installed in actual environments, updates the setting information accordingly, and reflects these updates in management device settings, ensuring alignment with the actual environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If setting information is prepared in advance in a virtual environment, then installation efficiency is improved, but accuracy of setting information matching actual environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system prepares setting information in advance in a virtual environment that replicates the actual deployment environment. This preliminary preparation allows for efficient installation while maintaining accuracy by ensuring the virtual environment mirrors real-world conditions, including network topology, device configurations, and environmental parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the actual deployment environment, including network infrastructure, device configurations, and spatial arrangements. This virtual replica allows setting information to be prepared and tested before actual installation, ensuring both efficiency through pre-planning and accuracy through environmental fidelity.
2Loss of time
If setting information is reflected in management device as prepared, then setup time is reduced, but reliability of device management deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where setting information prepared in the virtual environment is validated against actual environmental conditions before being reflected in the management device. This feedback loop ensures that time-saving preparations do not compromise reliability, as settings are verified to match actual device configurations and environmental parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables dynamic adjustment of setting information based on actual environmental detection. Rather than statically applying prepared settings, the system dynamically modifies them according to detected real-world conditions, ensuring both rapid deployment and reliable operation by adapting settings to actual device states.
3Productivity
If IP address and location information are set in advance, then configuration speed is improved, but accuracy of network configuration deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary configuration in a virtual environment that replicates the actual network topology, including IP address assignments, network segments, and device locations. This preliminary action enables rapid configuration while maintaining accuracy by ensuring the virtual network model accurately reflects real-world network conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs parameter changes by adapting IP addresses, network masks, and location parameters based on detected actual environmental conditions. The system prepares configuration parameters in advance but modifies them according to real-world detection, ensuring both fast configuration and accurate network setup by adjusting parameters to match actual network infrastructure.
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AI summary
An information processing system includes a processor configured to: acquire prepared setting information, which is information on settings that is prepared in advance in an environment different from an actual environment and can be reflected in a management device that manages a device to be managed; acquire environmental setting information, which is information set in the device to be managed in the actual environment in which the device to be managed is actually installed; and update information on a setting item that depends on the actual environment in the prepared setting information by the environmental setting information and reflect the updated prepared setting information in settings of the management device.