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Abstract

An operation monitoring and controlling apparatus for a computer system consisting of a central processing unit, input/output devices, terminals, and a service processor connected to the central processing unit, and including a supervising device for supervising the status of use of the input/output devices and the terminals; a first control device for putting the power supply of the central processing unit either in an on-state or in an off-state; a device for sending a data stream of operator commands, which an operator has inputted, to the service processor; and a second control device, to which a power-off instruction or a power-on instruction, which the operator has inputted is sent the second control device responding to a signal from the supervising device, generating a data stream of operator commands for starting an operating system running under the computer system, which is supplied to the service processor, at the same time generating a power-on signal, which is supplied to the first control device, or generating automatically a data stream of operator commands for stopping the operating system, which is sent to the service processor, and generating a power-off instruction for the first control device, which is supplied to the first control device.

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