Tree-Structured System Management for Multi-Vendor Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
In multi-architecture systems, where components from different vendors are mixed, existing fault tree analysis methods struggle to ensure consistency in system design and reliability evaluation due to fragmented design information and overlapping control configurations, leading to potential control range inconsistencies and leakage.
Innovation Solution
A system management apparatus and method that utilize structured identification information and correlation data to manage failure information in a unified manner by storing physical and logical inclusion relations of configuration elements in a tree structure, allowing for designated management ranges and targeted failure information transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If FTA method is used to evaluate system reliability, then reliability evaluation capability is improved, but it is not possible to evaluate reliability unless all configuration elements exist
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining the complete tree structure of configuration elements and their hierarchical relationships before actual system deployment. The management server stores the full set of structured identification information representing all possible configuration elements, enabling reliability evaluation to proceed even when some physical elements are not yet present or installed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multi-architecture with multiple vendors is adopted, then system adaptability and componentization are improved, but design information becomes fragmented and consistency cannot be secured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by creating a vendor-neutral tree structure framework that can accommodate configuration elements from multiple vendors. The management server uses a universal hierarchical model with standardized structured identification information that can represent diverse components while maintaining consistent relationships, allowing different vendors' components to be integrated without losing design information consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The management server acts as an intermediary between multiple vendors' design systems. It stores and manages the central tree structure with all configuration elements, serving as a single source of truth that mediates between fragmented vendor-specific design information and ensures overall system consistency.
3Reliability
If centralized management of all configuration elements is implemented, then system consistency is improved, but management complexity and information processing load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the configuration element management into hierarchical segments within a tree structure. The management server manages the overall tree structure and relationships, while individual configuration elements can be independently identified and managed through their structured identification information. This segmentation allows centralized consistency management without requiring monolithic complexity.
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AI summary
A system management apparatus includes a storing unit that stores structured identification information indicating physical and logical inclusion relations of configuration elements which configure a system by a tree structure, and correlation information indicating information on a correlation between the configuration elements, and a control unit that manages a range relating to a failure which is generated in the system, based on the structured identification information and the correlation information, in which the control unit designates a subset of the structured identification information as a predetermined management range in the structured identification information, and transmits failure information which is generated in the system to a terminal that displays the management range, in a case where the structured identification information indicating the failure information which is generated in the system corresponds to the subset of the structured identification information which is designated as a management range.