Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080204921 | RECORD MEDIUM BEARING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A computer performs a control including (1) receiving a request for monitoring a station to-be-handled which is a communication apparatus different from a pertinent station including the computer, (2) transmitting a request for a response based on the station to-be-handled, to the station to-be-handled at a predetermined time interval, on the basis of the monitoring request, and (3) transmitting a message expressing that the station to-be-handled will be detached from a network, to the network if the response to the response request was not received within a predetermined wait time. | 08-28-2008 |
20080209003 | MONITORING DEVICE AND MONITORING METHOD - A computer executes a monitoring control by receiving a first notification which has been transmitted from another communication apparatus to a network, and acquiring first identification information which is identification information of the communication apparatus at a predetermined first layer, from the first notification. The computer acquires second identification information which is identification information of the communication apparatus at a second layer being lower in hierarchy than the first layer. The computer associates the first identification information and the second identification information, and acquires a connection state between the network and the communication apparatus at the second layer. | 08-28-2008 |
20090249130 | TROUBLE COPING METHOD FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM - A trouble coping apparatus includes an incident registration section which registers information about an incident which has solved a problem, a solution knowledge generation section which generates trouble solution knowledge from the incident information, a risk registration section which registers risk items which are materials for judging appropriateness of selection of a work candidate, with the trouble solution knowledge, a risk evaluation section which generates navigation information showing a trouble solution procedure from the trouble solution knowledge, and a solution procedure display section which displays the navigation information. | 10-01-2009 |
20090299951 | FAILURE-HANDLING PROCEDURE KNOWLEDGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A computer-readable storage medium contains instructions. The instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform generating a new trouble-handling knowledge by using information regarding a work history read from a work-history storage unit that stores the information regarding the work history; and adding the new trouble-handling knowledge to an existing trouble-handling knowledge. | 12-03-2009 |
20100070458 | RULE CREATION METHOD AND RULE CREATING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus obtains, from an F-CMDB for managing CIs regarding resources and their attribute values, CIs with the type and attribute of the resource for which a rule is to be created for use at the time of comparison between CIs. From the F-CMDB for managing CIs of SRC and CIs of DST, and relations between SRC and DST together, the information processing apparatus also obtains CI pairs with SRC including any CI previously obtained and also having a relation corresponding to the determination objective of the rule. Then, the information processing apparatus subjects CIs of SRC with the same classification as that defined in a CI of DST to grouping. Then, the information processing apparatus stores a group of CIs of SRC obtained through grouping in a rule DB as a rule for the determination objective. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070462 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING TROUBLE HANDLING PROGRAM, AND TROUBLE HANDLING APPARATUS - A computer-readable portable storage medium storing a trouble handling program for causing a computer to execute a process for knowledgizing past trouble handling cases in information systems, and for recommending handling methods based on trouble handling knowledge obtained by knowledgizing and symptoms of troubles when they occurs, comprises: a searching process for obtaining candidates of handling methods for troubles requested to be handled by searching the trouble handling knowledge; a recording process for recording to a storing unit a history of handling methods executed for each symptom as handling history information; a priority assigning process for assigning priorities to the handling method candidates obtained by the searching process, with reference to the handling history information; and a process for returning to a handling request source the handling methods for the troubles requested to be handled after assigning priorities based on priority assignment information obtained by the priority assigning process. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070795 | SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND SUPPORTING METHOD - A supporting apparatus includes a configuration-information storage unit having stored therein dependencies among devices in association with a list of the devices. When information about a device where a failure has occurred is input, a dependency among devices including the faulty device is obtained from the configuration-information storage unit. Based on the obtained dependency among devices including the faulty device and information about the faulty device, learning data with the dependency and a cause of failure being associated with each other is created. Then, based on the created learning data, a solution procedure indicative of a procedure for specifying the cause of failure is generated by using, for example, algorithm ID3. | 03-18-2010 |
20110004675 | VIRTUAL INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR PERFORMING INFORMATION UPDATE PROCESS FOR DEVICE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - An information management device for performing an information update process from a virtual integrated management device that manages a plurality of device configuration information management devices to the device configuration information management devices, comprises a meta information management unit and an update processing unit. The meta information management unit, which is used to store meta information, indicates from which device configuration information management devices managed information comes. The update processing unit is used to narrow down the device configuration information management devices having information. The information is the basis of information on an update process such as registration, update and deletion based on the meta information, and giving a request for the update process, such as registration, update and deletion only to the device configuration information management devices narrowed down. | 01-06-2011 |
20110016092 | FEDERATED CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATABASE, MANAGEMENT DATA REPOSITORY, AND BACKUP DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A federated configuration management database includes a plurality of management data repositories, and a backup destination determination unit that determines backup destination management data repositories for backing up data overlapping among the plurality of management data repositories at specific management data repositories and that notifies each of the management data repositories of the data to be backed up. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016355 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR TROUBLESHOOTING - A troubleshooting system that receivesing as input one or more symptom(s) of trouble of an IT system and outputting a remedy for the symptom, the troubleshooting system including: a first data base to collecting configuration information of the IT system, a second data base to collecting incidents of trouble including symptoms of trouble and remedies for dealing with the symptoms, a first storage unit to deriveing and storing configuration information of incidents of trouble from the first data base and the second data base using the configuration information as a key, a configuration information similarity degree calculation unit to calculating similarity degrees between input configuration information of the IT system experiencing trouble and configuration information of the incidents of trouble, and an output unit to presenting a remedy for the IT system experiencing the trouble together with the similarity degree. | 01-20-2011 |
20110035512 | Device configuration integration information managing device and device configuration information managing device - MW of an FCMDB sequentially registers device configuration information of MDRs | 02-10-2011 |
20110047125 | CONFIGURATION ITEM MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND CONFIGURATION ITEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A configuration item management method includes receiving, from a logical-physical configuration database that manages a correspondence relationship between a logical configuration item database that manages a configuration item including an operation policy of an operation target device for each user and a physical configuration item database that is a physical implementation of the logical configuration item database, an input of a relevant operation policy of a user who changes the operation policy, generating a change policy by which the operation policy of the user received at the receiving is changed, and evaluating an influence that is given to an operation policy of another user by the change policy of the user generated at the generating, to determine whether to execute the change policy and to output the influence to the operation policy of the other user. | 02-24-2011 |
20110066939 | TROUBLESHOOTING SUPPORT METHOD, AND TROUBLESHOOTING SUPPORT APPARATUS - When a problem occurs in a computer system, the following processing is performed. That is, a troubleshooting procedure that includes, at least, operation content and input request for system information, presented to an operator, and in which command to acquire system information related to the input request from the information source of the system information are assigned to the input request, is referenced. Furthermore, in accordance with the command, system information is collected from an information source where system information exists. Then, after those input request for system information have been removed from the troubleshooting procedure, the resultant troubleshooting procedure is presented to the operator. Thus, the workload of the operator in the troubleshooting operation can be significantly reduced, and the time until the operation is completed is shortened, making rapid troubleshooting possible. | 03-17-2011 |
20110072165 | DEVICE-CONFIGURATION-INFORMATION OPTIMUM ARRANGEMENT METHOD AND DEVICE-CONFIGURATION-INFORMATION OPTIMUM ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM - A device-configuration-information integrated management system includes a device-configuration-information managing unit that manages device configuration information containing configuration items of a target device for management and contains relationships between the configuration items; and a device-configuration-information integrated managing unit for integratedly managing the device configuration information obtained from a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units. The system also includes a device-configuration-information optimum arrangement processing unit that performs optimum management by aggregating device configuration information that contains related configuration items, from among the device configuration information managed by a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units, in a single device-configuration-information managing unit from among a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units. | 03-24-2011 |
20110072305 | RECOVERY METHOD MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND RECOVERY METHOD MANAGEMENT METHOD - A recovery method management method includes executing and completing a work on a work target of a system according to a work start command and a work completion command, creating working method information for each work target, acquiring before-work-start system information and after-work-completion system information of the system to create before-and-after-work change information for each work target, storing and managing the working method information and the before-and-after-work change information in a work information managing and storing unit for each work target, creating recovery method information for each similar recovery work target among the work targets on the basis of the working method information, creating before-and-after-recovery change information for each recovery work target on the basis of the before-and-after-work change information, and storing and managing the recovery method information created and the before-and-after-recovery change information created in a recovery method managing and storing unit for each recovery work target. | 03-24-2011 |
20110093310 | COMPUTER-READABLE, NON-TRANSITORY MEDIUM STORING A SYSTEM OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING PROGRAM, SYSTEM OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING METHOD, AND SYSTEM OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SUPPORTING APPARATUS - Based on past failure sign appearance situations and past failure occurrence situations, failure occurrence probability which varies with a time elapse after failure sign appearance is calculated, and also, based on maintenance cost information of an operations management objective system, a short-term troubleshooting cost required for responding to a failure associated with the failure sign appeared in the system is calculated. Furthermore, based on the past failure sign appearance situations and the past failure occurrence situations, and also, the maintenance cost information and the failure occurrence probability, a short-term first preventive maintenance cost required for preventive maintenance of the failure associated with the failure sign, and also, the failure occurrence probability and a short-term second preventive maintenance cost for when preventive maintenance performance is postponed until next failure sign appearance, are calculated. Then, options in which the short-term first preventive maintenance cost, the short-term second preventive maintenance cost and the troubleshooting cost are associated with the failure occurrence probability, are prepared to be offered via an output device. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093688 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A configuration management apparatus that manages, on the basis of data having configuration items and attribute information defining the configuration items, information about the resources includes: an operation execution unit that acquires a processing request that at least includes attribute information and processing information; a processing execution unit that determines for which configuration item the processing request is made and links the configuration item and the processing request; and a delay calculation determination unit, a calculation execution unit and a delay calculation plan unit that perform a process of processing information inside the processing request for the configuration item on the basis of the linking by the processing execution unit at a different timing from a timing when the processing request is acquired by the operation execution unit to get attribute information inside the processing request reflected in the configuration item. | 04-21-2011 |
20110119384 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The information processing apparatus includes: a specification information reception unit that receives specification information for specifying a predetermined one of a plurality of resources; a determination unit that determines a device managing the resource specified by the specification information from among a plurality of devices based on the specification information received by the specification information reception unit; a specification information notification unit that sends the specification information to the device that has been determined, by the determination unit, to manage the resource specified by the specification information; an association unit that associates plural pieces of resource information with one another based on the sent resource information; and a resource information processing unit that executes predetermined processing for the resource information based on the association among the plural pieces of resource information associated by the association unit. | 05-19-2011 |
20110131323 | INFORMATION COLLECTION DEVICE, INFORMATION COLLECTION PROGRAM, AND METHOD - An information collection device acquires information from a plurality of devices connected through a network. The information collection device includes: a first addition unit that adds, for each of the devices, an information collection duration required to collect information of the devices to a communication duration required to communicate with the devices; a second addition unit that adds a maximum duration among the durations by addition of the first addition unit to a predetermined time to obtain a first time; a subtraction unit that subtracts the information collection duration of each of the devices from the first time; a first setting unit that sets a time obtained by the subtraction unit as a second time that is when information collection starts at each of the devices; and an acquisition unit that acquires information obtained by the information collection that starts at the second time. | 06-02-2011 |
20110153565 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A configuration information management device includes a storage unit for storing a configuration item and an item relationship. The configuration information management device controls to cause the storage unit or the different configuration information management device to store the item relationship. The configuration information management device also controls to cause the storage unit or the different configuration information management device containing a configuration item connected to the item relationship to store a replica of the item relationship. When a search request including a series of the configuration item and the item relationship is accepted, the configuration information management device decomposes the search request such that the configuration item and the item relationship arranged in series are together treated as a unit of processing, and performs a search process for each unit of processing. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153678 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE - A system includes FCMDBs managing IPROP among attribute information from MDRs managing the attribute information of each configuration type regarding a CI. The DCMDB includes a determining unit that, when a CI registration request is detected, determines whether multiple types of IPROP are contained in the request; an entity ID collector that, when the request contains multiple types, collects, from each FCMDB, an entity ID of the IPROP and an entity ID of other registered IPROP; an adding unit that, when all types of entity IDs of the same CI are collected, adds a common entity ID of the same CI to all types of IPROP regarding the same CI; and a reconciliation register that distributes the data obtained by federating all types of entity data regarding the same CI to the DCMDBs that relate to the common entity ID and registers the federated data in the DCMDBs. | 06-23-2011 |
20110161288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA UPDATE SYNCHRONIZATION BY TWO-PHASE COMMIT - In an integrated management database system having a plurality of element databases holding the configuration information about an information system and an integrated database for integrally managing the element databases, an element database which cannot return a reply while maintaining a secure state in response to an update request is not informed of the update request in the first phase of a two-phase commit, thereby attaining synchronization when data is updated, and maintaining the consistency of the data in the system. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161353 | Management device and management method - A management device includes a memory unit for storing configuration item information regarding configuration items to be managed and relationship information regarding relationships between the configuration items to be managed, an extracting unit for extracting, based on the information stored in the memory unit and based on predetermined constraint conditions, such relationships between the configuration items that satisfy the predetermined constraint conditions and that are not included in the relationship information, and an evaluating unit for executing an application that refers to the extracted relationships between the configuration items and obtains an evaluation result regarding the extracted relationships between the configuration items. | 06-30-2011 |
20110161740 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING CANDIDATE FOR FAILURE COMPONENT - An apparatus for selecting a candidate for a failure component causing errors from a plurality of components included in a network system, the apparatus includes a processor for executing a procedure. The procedure includes determining a relation class of a relation among the plurality of components on the basis of configuration information of the network system, each of the relations being classified into one of the relation classes in accordance with a direction of an error propagation, determining an investigation range for each component having an error on the basis of investigation information including an error type of an error occurred in the each component and an investigation direction corresponding to the relation class, the investigation range being a set of the components to be investigated, and selecting a component on the basis of an appearance frequency of each component in the investigation ranges as the candidate. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167411 | Configuration information verification apparatus and configuration information verification method - A configuration information verification apparatus includes an alive monitoring information collecting unit for collecting alive monitoring information from a plurality of configuration items constituting a network, a logical formula creating unit for referring to configuration information that represents information about connection relationships between the configuration items and creating a logical formula with respect to each configuration item by performing an AND operation on configuration items positioned on a route leading to corresponding configuration item, and assigning a “true” value to the logical formula if the alive monitoring information indicates that the corresponding configuration item is operating normally and assigning a “false” to the logical formula if the alive monitoring information indicates that the corresponding configuration item is not operating normally; and a logical formula verifying unit for verifying, from a plurality of logical formulae, whether an inconsistent logical formula is present. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173500 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING NETWORK SYSTEM - An apparatus for managing a network system including a plurality of components, the apparatus includes a memory that stores component type data of each component of the plurality of components, component relation data including relation information indicating a pair of components related to each other in the network system and error history data including error information of respective error components in the plurality of components. The apparatus includes a processor that executes a procedure including extracting a pair of component type data as a relation class candidate on the basis of the component type data of a pair of error components indicated by the error information in the error history data, the pair of error components being indicated by the relation information. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179031 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - A configuration information management device includes a configuration information storage unit for storing a configuration item indicative of information about a target of management, and an item relationship indicative of information about a connection between configuration items independently of a different configuration information management device. When a request to enter a cluster is accepted that is a group of a configuration item and an item relationship connected together, the configuration information management device determines a destination to store the cluster, and controls to cause the configuration information storage unit or the different configuration information management device to store the cluster. When a search request to search for a configuration item or an item relationship is accepted, the configuration information management device specifies a place where a cluster containing the target of the search is stored, and retrieves the configuration item or the item relationship targeted for the search from the storage place of the cluster. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184968 | SIMILARITY CALCULATION APPARATUS - A similarity calculation apparatus includes: a relationship-information storage unit that stores relationships between configuration items belonging to an information system and stored in multiple databases; a first counting unit that compares, across the databases, attribute values of one configuration item in each of the databases, thereby counting a matching-attribute-value count; a second counting unit that identifies a configuration item having a relationship with the one configuration item in each of the database from the relationship-information storage unit and compares, across the databases, attribute values of the identified configuration items to count a matching-attribute-value count; and a similarity calculation unit that calculates similarity between the configuration items, of which matching-attribute-value counts each have been counted by the first counting unit or the second counting unit, based on the matching-attribute-value count counted by the first counting unit and the matching-attribute-value count counted by the second counting unit. | 07-28-2011 |
20110185236 | COMMON TROUBLE CASE DATA GENERATING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMMON TROUBLE CASE DATA GENERATING PROGRAM - A method of generating common trouble case data for managing a plurality of systems. The method includes (a) obtaining first identifiers of actual system components and a second identifier of a template from a system data storage unit, (b) obtaining third identifiers of definitional system components from a template data storage unit on the basis of the second identifier, (c) selecting, by a computer, a first identifier subset among the first identifiers on the basis of the third identifiers, and (d) selecting, by the computer, a first trouble case data subset among a plurality of first trouble case data pieces on the basis of the first identifier subset to generate the common trouble case data. In the above (c), the first identifiers of the first identifier subset are identical to the third identifiers. In the above (d), the first trouble case data subset includes the first identifier subset. | 07-28-2011 |
20110208679 | TROUBLE PATTERN CREATING PROGRAM AND TROUBLE PATTERN CREATING APPARATUS - A computer readable, non-transitory medium has stored therein a trouble pattern creating program. The program causes a computer to execute: (a) extracting, from a plurality of log messages that are output from an information system having a plurality of configuration items and that are output in a predetermined period of time, configuration items that output the log messages; (b) calculating a degree of relationship between the configuration items extracted in the (a) extracting; (c) executing learning of the rate of the number of occurrences of troubles in the information system in the number of times the log messages are output, the learning is executed by a number of times corresponding to the degree of relationship calculated in the (b) calculating; and (d) creating, in accordance with a result of the learning in the (c) executing, a trouble pattern message that is output when a trouble occurs. | 08-25-2011 |
20110218982 | Configuration information management apparatus and dictionary generation method of configuration information management apparatus - A data management unit stores therein configuration items including attribute items described according to different schemas. A dictionary candidate retrieval unit specifies a combination of a pair of attribute items, which defines a correspondence relation between the attribute items of the different schemas, as a dictionary definition item, and retrieves, as a dictionary candidate, a combination of the attribute names corresponding to the same attribute value in the attribute items, which are described according to the schemas, of the dictionary definition item from the data management unit. A dictionary generation unit generates dictionary information defining synonymity between the attribute names of the different attribute items described according to the different schemas based on the dictionary candidate retrieved by the dictionary candidate retrieval unit. A dictionary management unit stores therein the dictionary information generated by the dictionary generation unit. | 09-08-2011 |
20110231429 | Configuration information management device, configuration information management method, and computer product - A configuration information management device including: a storage unit that stores a configuration item managed by the device and an item relationship, with respect to configuration items related to a system and item relationships that associate the configuration items with one another, the configuration items and the item relationships being distributed in a plurality of devices; a management unit that, when a first configuration item stored in the storage unit has a feature, creates duplicates of second configuration items that are associated with the first configuration item, do not have a feature and are managed by other devices and duplicates of relationships between the first configuration item and the second configuration items, the duplicates being created in the storage unit; and a search unit that, upon receipt of a search request for configuration information that associates the configuration items with one another by the item relationships, searches for the information about the configuration information with the use of the duplicates created in the storage unit. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231700 | Management device, correction candidate output method, and computer product - A management device includes a storage unit which stores both an attribute value before correction and an attribute value after correction concerning a configuration item as a management target and type information of the configuration item or relationship information between the configuration item and another configuration item; a determination unit which, when an attribute value input for a new configuration item coincides with the attribute value before correction stored in the storage unit, determines a degree of coincidence between type information or relationship information input for the new configuration item and the type information stored in the storage unit or the relationship information stored in the storage unit; and an output unit which outputs the attribute value after correction based on the determination result of the determination unit. | 09-22-2011 |
20110276572 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MEDIUM AND METHOD - A configuration management device includes: an update processing unit | 11-10-2011 |
20110295891 | Search device, search method, and search program - When searching for a starting point candidate on an abnormality occurred in a first management range, if a search destination extends over a second management range, a first search device transmits a query to a second search device and requests a second search device to search for a starting point of an abnormality in the second management range. The second search device receives the query, searches the second management range for a starting point candidate of an abnormality, replaces a starting point candidate of an abnormality with a dummy configuration item, and transmits a response. Thus, the first search device can search for a starting point candidate of an abnormality without grasping a connection relationship of configuration items in the second management range. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302187 | Schema definition generating device and schema definition generating method - A schema definition generating device includes an item comparison generating unit that compares configuration item information and table information, and generates correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the configuration item information contained in a query formula used to search for configuration item information indicating a configuration item targeted for management and the table information contained in history information of queries made to a relational database; a relationship comparison generating unit that compares relational information and information indicating a relationship between tables contained in the query history information, and generates correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the relational information indicating a relationship between configuration items contained in the query formula and the query history information; and a schema definition generating unit that generates a schema definition of the configuration item information and a schema definition of the relational information by using the generated correspondence information. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302199 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus that manages resource information which is information related to resources constituting a system, includes: a first condition setting section that sets first conditions which are predetermined conditions between given resource information and other resource information; a first condition extraction section that extracts, from the first conditions set by the first condition setting section, a first condition set to resource information, on which changed information that is information indicating a change to the resource information is based; and a first condition determination section that determines whether the changed information satisfies the first condition extracted by the first condition extraction section. | 12-08-2011 |
20110314050 | Configuration management system, proxy system, and configuration management method - A configuration management system includes a plurality of MDRs that stores information about resources as configuration items, a FCMDB, a plurality of proxy apparatuses, and a proxy management apparatus, wherein the proxy management apparatus receives configuration items from the MDRs, reconciles the receives configuration items, selects a destination proxy apparatus such that the numbers of configuration items stored in the proxy apparatuses are substantially equal to each other, and sends the reconciled configuration items to the selected proxy apparatus, wherein the proxy apparatuses store configuration items sent from the proxy management apparatus, and wherein the FCMDB receives a query from a client, selects among the plurality of proxy apparatuses a proxy apparatus that stores a configuration item that is to serve as a query result, and receives the configuration item from the selected proxy apparatus. | 12-22-2011 |
20120011172 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PRODUCT - An object is to integrate pieces of information related to mutually the same target, though the pieces of information do not contain, in common, an attribute unique to one target. To achieve the object, from a generated condition storage unit storing generated integration conditions each specifying one or more attributes contained, in duplicate, in pieces of information related to mutually the same target, one of the generated integration conditions specifying one or more attributes being the same as one or more attributes contained in integration target information is obtained as a generated integration condition corresponding to the integration target information. A CI | 01-12-2012 |
20120030671 | Information transmission device, network system, and information transmission method - An information transmission device stores an identifier representing an information processing device connected to a network in association with an identifier representing a storage device used by the information processing device. When transmission of information is requested from the information processing device, the information transmission device specifies an identifier representing an information processing device. The information transmission device acquires an identifier representing a storage device stored in association with the specified identifier. The information transmission device transmits information on a request for transmission by the information processing device to the storage device represented by the acquired identifier. | 02-02-2012 |
20120084236 | Recording medium storing decision tree generating program, decision tree generation method and decision tree generating apparatus - A constraint condition DB storing a constraint condition that stipulates a structure of a decision tree is referenced, and a decision tree is generated from a case set where values of a plurality of attributes and a conclusion are associated with one another so that the structure of the decision tree, which is stipulated by the constraint condition, is satisfied. Accordingly, for example, even if a new case is added to the case set, a basic structure of the decision tree is succeeded by the constraint condition, thereby avoiding a situation where an operator needs to significantly modify the decision tree. Therefore, operations of modifying the decision tree by the operator can be reduced. | 04-05-2012 |
20120090014 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD - An access control apparatus that controls access to an information management apparatus that stores configuration elements and relationship elements indicating relationships between the configuration elements, includes a storage unit that stores one or more predetermined configuration elements in association with user information that identifies a user and stores one or more combinations of a type of a configuration element and a type of a relationship element in association with the user information, as an access control rule set for each user, and a determining unit that determines that, when a combination of a type of a configuration element stored in the storage unit in association with user information and a type of a relationship element indicating a relationship between the configuration element and another configuration element is stored in the storage unit in association with the user information, the another configuration element is accessible. | 04-12-2012 |
20120096460 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LIVE-MIGRATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF VIRTUAL MACHINES - There is provided an apparatus and method for executing live-migrations concurrently on a plurality of virtual machines. Resource-usage state information is acquired from each of the plurality of virtual machines when a first live migration of a first virtual machine is started. A correlation factor indicating a degree of correlation between first resource-usage state information for the first virtual machine and second resource-usage state information for each of one or more virtual machines other than the first virtual machine is calculated using the acquired resource-usage state information. Next, a second virtual machine having a positive correlation factor with respect to the first virtual machine is selected from the one or more virtual machines where the positive correlation factor indicating a close similarity between the first and second resource-usage state information. Then, a second live-migration is executed on the second virtual machine in parallel with the ongoing first live migration. | 04-19-2012 |
20120150821 | CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND CONFIGURATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD - When receiving a change of property information that is a key for performing property information integration, a FCMDB refers to the information stored in a property management information DB. Then, when property information that is a key after change is identical with the property information before change in the same configuration item, the FCMDB maintains the property information of the property information DB with respect to the configuration item. On the other hand, when the two property information data are not identical to each other, the FCMDB integrates property information for each configuration item on the basis of the key after change and registers the result in a property information storage unit. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158701 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, DATA CONVERSION APPARATUS, AND CONVERSION METHOD - A computer-readable medium storing therein a data conversion program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes receiving after a schema of a database has been changed from a former schema to a new schema, a processing request concerning the database; judging based on difference information concerning the former schema and the new schema, whether in the processing request, a condition that specifies process data subject to processing, has been changed by the new schema; searching the database for conversion data whose format is to be converted from the former schema to the new schema, the searching based on judgment results obtained at the judging and on the processing request; and converting the format of the retrieved conversion data, from the former schema to the new schema. | 06-21-2012 |
20120210311 | UPDATING APPARATUS, UPDATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An update apparatus used in a system that provides service using software and performing update of the software, including a processing apparatus configured to calculate a difference between a possible down time of the service according to a service level and a down time of the service indicated by operation performance stored in storage unit, and when there are a plurality of pieces of software as update targets, to calculate an update order of the plurality of pieces of update target software according to a degree of influence to the difference by service down when update of software fails, and to perform update of the plurality of pieces of update target software according to the update order. | 08-16-2012 |
20120239672 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A computer-readable medium stores therein an information processing program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes referring to relationship property information records that are stored in a storage device and indicate the type of each relationship property between configuration elements in a system and calculating a total count of configuration elements having a predetermined relationship property with a first configuration element, or a total count of relationship property information records having a predetermined relationship property, among relationship property information records concerning the first configuration element; executing conditional determination concerning the number of configuration elements having the predetermined relationship property with the first configuration element, among the calculated total count of configuration elements or the calculated total count of relationship property information records; and outputting a result of the determination. | 09-20-2012 |
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