Patent ID: 6594528
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A supervisory control support equipment, comprising:a monitoring means for monitoring an operating status of a plural n of facilities whose functions are distributed; a storage means; a cache memory applied to a writing to said storage means; a controlling means for analyzing an operating status of said plural n of facilities monitored by said monitoring means, and performing a control suited for the result of said analyzing and for holding supervisory control information in said storage means through said cache memory, the supervisory control information being generated or updated during the process of said analyzing and to be applied to update of a system configuration under the control; and an external storage configured as hardware distinct from said storage means and is readable and writeable on demand of said control means, wherein said control means saves supervisory control information held in said cache memory in said external storage when a predetermined event is recognized in the process of realizing said analysis or said control.