Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080270720 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management device and management method capable of improving usability of a storage system is proposed. The management device and the management method for managing data migration between volumes in a storage system in which normal volumes to which fixed storage areas are allocated in advance and virtual volumes to which storage areas are dynamically allocated according to use status coexist as types of volumes for reading and writing data is arranged so that information regarding each volume is collected, and based on the collected information, at least a total logical capacity that is a summation of logical capacities determined in advance for the respective volume is separately displayed for normal volumes and virtual volumes. | 10-30-2008 |
20080288560 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD USING DATA MIGRATION - Selection of a migration source volume and a migration destination volume of an implemented migration is accepted. Based on a completion date and time of the implemented migration and an update date and time of the volume, it is determined whether or not the selected migration source volume and migration destination volume are updated after the completion of the implemented migration. When it is determined that both the migration source volume and the migration destination volume are not updated, the implemented migration is undone by setting a storage subsystem to allow a host computer to make access to the migration source volume. | 11-20-2008 |
20090030953 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DATA MIGRATION - A data migration method is provided which can provide a user at a low cost with a function of migrating data from an existing storage when an additional storage is installed. A business application is operated by using a business server and a first storage. When the capacity and performance of data used by a business application become insufficient, a second storage is installed to compensate for insufficiency. In this case, the management server collectively copies data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, the data and configuration information are deleted at a later time in accordance with migration command information selected from a GUI screen. It is therefore possible to migrate necessary data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, without making a user be conscious of the details of the configuration information of logical devices of a storage. | 01-29-2009 |
20090240911 | Information processing apparatus and informaiton processing method - An information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of assigning, to an application, a volume having a performance required by the application while simplifying administration are proposed. A performance and a capacity of each first storage area respectively provided by each storage device as well as a performance and a capacity required for a volume respectively assigned to each application running on a host system are managed, and based on the performance and the capacity of each first storage area and the performance and the capacity required for the volume to be respectively assigned to each application, the volume having the performance and the capacity required by the application is assigned to the application, and when a plurality of the volumes are assigned to one of the applications, the volumes provided in the same storage device are preferentially assigned. | 09-24-2009 |
20090271667 | Apparatus and Method for Monitoring Computer System - A system monitoring apparatus specifies an intentionally shutdown system component or monitoring target, and a different monitoring target that is dependent thereon (a dependent target), and does not display an alert even when an error state is detected for a monitoring target inside the intentionally shutdown system component or the intentionally shutdown monitoring target, and the dependent target of the system component or monitoring target. | 10-29-2009 |
20100125683 | METHOD OF MONITORING DEVICE FORMING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A monitoring apparatus communicatively coupled to one or more devices forming an information processing system manages each of the devices by setting the device to be in any one of monitoring states including a monitoring target to be always monitored, a semi-monitoring target to be determined if there is a change in resources and a non-monitoring target being neither the monitoring target nor the semi-monitoring target. The monitoring apparatus newly acquires resource information on a device whose monitoring state is currently set to be the monitoring target or the semi-monitoring target, and determines if any of the resources of the device is changed on the basis of the newly acquired resource information, the resource information acquired last time, and a determination condition. When determining that any of the resources has been changed, the monitoring apparatus outputs a screen prompting a change of the monitoring state of the device. | 05-20-2010 |
20100325493 | ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR IT APPARATUSES FROM WHICH EVENT INFORMATION IS NOT OBTAINED - In the system management server, an information processing apparatus that is an event-information acquisition target is registered as a monitored apparatus in configuration information; event information that complies with a rule stored in advance is identified from among a plurality of pieces of event information stored in the system management server; a server apparatus for a network service related to the event information is identified; and a message is displayed which indicates that the cause of the event that occurred in a client information processing apparatus which has generated event information is an event related to the network service, which occurred in the server apparatus. | 12-23-2010 |
20110213866 | NODE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A storage resource stores a plugin information package, which is an information package comprising definition information for plugging in a node device as a management target. The definition information is information denoting at the least one of a method for acquiring information from a node device and an item of information to be acquired from a node device. A processor references the plugin information package, which is stored in the storage resource, and accesses a node device via a communication interface device based on the referenced plugin information package. The node device comprising information that has been correctly acquired in accordance with this access is regarded as the management target. | 09-01-2011 |
20110231715 | METHOD AND COMPUTER FOR DESIGNING FAULT CAUSE ANALYSIS RULES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACQUIRABLE MACHINE INFORMATION - A management system, which manages an information processing system by identifying a cause location based on previously defined analysis rule information, displays a status that is a condition of the analysis rule information but is not receivable, based on acquirable status information of the apparatuses making up the information processing system or information about statuses received in the past. | 09-22-2011 |
20110231901 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS - The management system of the present invention is capable of efficiently discovering each apparatus coupled to a communication network. The management server | 09-22-2011 |
20110246835 | MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An operation management system | 10-06-2011 |
20110264956 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OUTPUTTING INFORMATION DENOTING RECOVERY METHOD CORRESPONDING TO ROOT CAUSE OF FAILURE - A management server includes a meta rule for identifying an event to be a root cause and a failure recovery method that corresponds to the meta rule for an event capable of occurring in a plurality of node apparatuses, and also displays a cause event to be a root cause of an event detected by the management server, and a method for recovering from this cause event. | 10-27-2011 |
20110265006 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a management system for managing a plurality of management target information processing apparatuses including a plurality of network apparatuses and a computer. This management system determines the reachability of a route network apparatus as a network apparatus on a communication between the system and the computer, and calculates a certainty factor concerning the certainty on whether a prescribed network apparatus contained in a route network apparatus based on the reachability is the cause of unreachability from the management system to the computer. The management system subsequently displays information showing that communication from the management system to the computer is unreachable, and the certainty factor as the certainty that the prescribed route network apparatus is the cause of unreachability. | 10-27-2011 |
20110302305 | ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR IT APPARATUSES FROM WHICH EVENT INFORMATION IS NOT OBTAINED - In the system management server, an information processing apparatus that is an event-information acquisition target is registered as a monitored apparatus in configuration information; event information that complies with a rule stored in advance is identified from among a plurality of pieces of event information stored in the system management server; a server apparatus for a network service related to the event information is identified; and a message is displayed which indicates that the cause of the event that occurred in a client information processing apparatus which has generated event information is an event related to the network service, which occurred in the server apparatus. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302332 | METHOD OF MONITORING DEVICE FORMING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A monitoring apparatus communicatively coupled to one or more devices forming an information processing system manages each of the devices by setting the device to be in any one of monitoring states including a monitoring target to be always monitored, a semi-monitoring target to be determined if there is a change in resources and a non-monitoring target being neither the monitoring target nor the semi-monitoring target. The monitoring apparatus newly acquires resource information on a device whose monitoring state is currently set to be the monitoring target or the semi-monitoring target, and determines if any of the resources of the device is changed on the basis of the newly acquired resource information, the resource information acquired last time, and a determination condition. When determining that any of the resources has been changed, the monitoring apparatus outputs a screen prompting a change of the monitoring state of the device. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307591 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A system management apparatus for managing a computer system receives plug-in distribution data from a plug-in distribution apparatus. The plug-in distribution data comprises plug-in definition information and template definition information. The system management apparatus uses the plug-in definition information to acquire information from the management target apparatus, and determines whether or not to issue an alert based on the template definition information. The distribution of the plug-in and the template at the same time means that the user can avoid confusion regarding the threshold setting. | 12-15-2011 |
20110320599 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus for managing a computer system stores configuration information of multiple management-target apparatuses based on multiple first information received from multiple management-target apparatuses. The management apparatus, based on the configuration information and multiple additional component application condition information, determines whether or not to use multiple additional component information to acquire multiple second information from the multiple management-target apparatuses. The management apparatus, in a case where a determination to carry out acquisition is made, uses the multiple additional component information to receive the multiple second information from the multiple management-target apparatuses, and based on the multiple second information, either creates or updates the management information of the multiple management-target apparatuses. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005609 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD - The present invention makes it possible to set a monitoring method for each of a plurality of monitoring-targeted objects. A node, such as a server, and a component, which is included in the node, are monitoring-targeted objects. An information acquiring part | 01-05-2012 |
20120017127 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - There is provided a failure analysis function capable of reducing the time required to resolve a failure in a piece of equipment to be monitored. When the failure analysis function senses that the status of a piece of equipment which had been abnormal has returned to normal, it displays, of failure analysis results, one based on an equipment abnormality which has been resolved in a GUI separately from the other analysis results. If a failure analysis result is derived based on a plurality of failure events, the failure analysis function displays the failure analysis result in the GUI separately from the other failure analysis results when all of the failure events are confirmed to be resolved (see FIG. | 01-19-2012 |
20120102362 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention realizes root cause analysis processing with a high certainty factor while holding down management cost. In the present invention, besides one or more condition events which could occur in a node apparatus, an additional event different from the condition events is introduced into an analysis rule for a root cause analysis. This analysis rule indicates a relation between the condition events and additional event and a conclusion event recognized as a failure factor according to satisfaction of the condition events and additional event. The additional event is a command for instructing execution of an action for acquiring additional information from the node apparatus according to a satisfaction state of the one or more condition events. A detected state is applied to the analysis rule, a certainty factor as information indicating possibility of occurrence of a failure in the node apparatus is calculated on the basis of satisfaction or non-satisfaction of the condition events and an execution result of the action, and a root cause analysis result is generated. The obtained root cause analysis result is output according to necessity. | 04-26-2012 |
20120124198 | METHOD AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR DETECTING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS COUPLED TO COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A management apparatus stores attribute/protocol management information denoting each attribute/protocol relationship (the corresponding relationship between a communication apparatus attribute and a management protocol that is inferred to be optimum for the communication apparatus that has this communication apparatus attribute). The management apparatus, for each of multiple addresses prior to inputting the credential used to detect the communication apparatus, (A) issues a query that specifies an address, (B) upon receiving a response to this query from the communication apparatus at the address specified in this query, writes, to a storage resource, query result information denoting the corresponding relationship between the address specified in this query and the communication apparatus attribute acquired based on the response, (C) identifies the management protocol corresponding to the communication apparatus attribute denoted by the query result information from the attribute/protocol management information, and (D) decides the optimum management protocol for the address based on the identified management protocol. | 05-17-2012 |
20120246430 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA RELOCATION CONTROL DEVICE - The present invention achieves data relocation in accordance with a user's policies, in an environment where a plurality of storage devices coexist. The volumes belonging to storage devices A-D are managed virtually integrally. A host recognizes a plurality of storage devices A-D as a single virtual storage device. The user is able to group arbitrarily each volume belonging to the storage system, as a plurality of storage layers | 09-27-2012 |
20120254406 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to create information for use in problem analysis only for a required event in a case where an event denoting a change in the configuration of a computer system has been detected. A management apparatus detects a configuration change of the computer system as an event and records this event in an event management table T | 10-04-2012 |
20120324192 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management device and management method capable of improving usability of a storage system is proposed. The management device and the management method for managing data migration between volumes in a storage system in which normal volumes to which fixed storage areas are allocated in advance and virtual volumes to which storage areas are dynamically allocated according to use status coexist as types of volumes for reading and writing data is arranged so that information regarding each volume is collected, and based on the collected information, at least a total logical capacity that is a summation of logical capacities determined in advance for the respective volume is separately displayed for normal volumes and virtual volumes. | 12-20-2012 |
20130007262 | MONITORING SYSTEM AND MONITORING METHOD - A monitoring system quantifies either a configuration change or a status change of a monitoring target, and displays a change value thereof. Furthermore, the monitoring target refers to either a monitoring-target apparatus or a component of a monitoring-target apparatus. Moreover, in a case where multiple monitoring information acquisition intervals are used a change value may be computed and displayed for each of multiple monitoring targets. There may also be a case in which a time axis of a chronological graph of monitoring numeric values and a time axis of a chronological graph of change values are displayed collectively. | 01-03-2013 |
20130080604 | SYSTEM MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD - The present invention is for efficiently managing large numbers of apparatuses using multiple management protocols. A management information acquisition part | 03-28-2013 |
20130080624 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - In analyzing an elaborate computer system which requires large-scale or numerous event propagation models, a law-of-causality matrix gains size, so that significant amount of storage resources has been used in a management computer. To solve such a problem, the management computer to manage the computer system stores topologies, event propagation models, and causality information including one or more causal relations in the storage resources, determines, when the management computer analyzes or detects an event, whether a causal relation has already been created for the event to be analyzed, and creates the causal relation based on a topology and event propagation models, if not yet. | 03-28-2013 |
20130179563 | INFORMATION SYSTEM, COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CAUSE OF PHENOMENON - An information system has a plurality of network apparatuses, a plurality of node apparatuses and a computer that analyzes a cause of an event that occurred. A storage resource for the computer stores rules including conditions indicating events that occur in the network apparatuses and the node apparatuses, and conclusion. The computer generates an aggregate internal condition object for aggregating information on the occurrences of events of a plurality of condition objects corresponding to the conditions of the plurality of network apparatuses, and associates the aggregate internal condition object with the condition objects corresponding to the conditions of the network apparatuses, condition objects corresponding to the conditions of the node apparatuses, and conclusion objects corresponding to the conclusions. | 07-11-2013 |
20130212257 | COMPUTER PROGRAM AND MONITORING APPARATUS - To analyze the cause if an event occurred to a plurality of monitoring targets. A monitoring computer | 08-15-2013 |
20130219225 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OUTPUTTING INFORMATION DENOTING RECOVERY METHOD CORRESPONDING TO ROOT CAUSE OF FAILURE - A management server includes a meta rule for identifying an event to be a root cause and a failure recovery method that corresponds to the meta rule for an event capable of occurring in a plurality of node apparatuses, and also displays a cause event to be a root cause of an event detected by the management server, and a method for recovering from this cause event. | 08-22-2013 |