Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080275962 | Remote access providing computer system and method for managing same - A computer system for providing a remote access service includes a unit for acquiring information on a relation between a terminal and a user using the terminal, a unit for acquiring network information about the terminal, a unit for acquiring network information about a blade that the terminal will access, a unit for acquiring information on a relation between the blade and a storage area, and a management server for extracting information on the user and its usage information and providing these information in real time. The management server also has a unit for permitting an administrator of the management server, persons other than the user and a management program to use the blade. | 11-06-2008 |
20100061257 | NETWORK MONITORING DEVICE, NETWORK MONITORING METHOD, AND NETWORK MONITORING PROGRAM - Information on a communication relation or communication path to be monitored is automatically generated to reduce load of a user. A path information generation part of a network monitoring device receives a destination IP address designated by a user as an object of monitoring. When the input of the destination IP address is received, the path information generation part uses configuration information tables, which store configuration information of a device on a network being monitoring, to identify IP addresses of networks to which a plurality of terminals belong, as branch IP addresses. Further, the path information generation part uses the configuration information tables and transfer destination information tables which store a routing table of a router on the network, in order to identify the connection order of routers between the designated destination IP address and the identified branch IP addresses, to generate path information. | 03-11-2010 |
20100312893 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A resource management method executed by an information processing system having a plurality of physical servers | 12-09-2010 |
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 |
20110188400 | NETWORK MONITORING DEVICE, NETWORK MONITORING METHOD, AND NETWORK MONITORING PROGRAM - Information on a communication relation or communication path to be monitored is automatically generated to reduce load of a user. A path information generation part receives a destination IP address designated by a user, through an input receiving part. When the input of the destination IP address is received, the path information generation part uses configuration information tables, each of which stores configuration information of a device on a network, to identify IP addresses of networks each having a plurality of terminals, as branch IP addresses. The path information generation part uses the configuration information tables and transfer destination information tables each storing a routing table of a router, to identify the connection order of routers between the designated destination IP address and the identified branch IP addresses, to generate path information. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196968 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system that achieves effective utilization of physical servers' resources in a virtual client system is provided. | 08-11-2011 |
20110209010 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF FAILURE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - A management system comprises at the least a first analysis rule information and a second analysis rule information, acquires a first analysis result and a second analysis result based on a detected status of an information processing apparatus, and aggregates and displays a first analysis result and a second analysis result based on (A) a cause denoted by an analysis result, (B) a status condition of analysis rule information that forms the basis for the analysis result, or (C) a detected status. | 08-25-2011 |
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 |
20110276982 | Load Balancer and Load Balancing System - In a system including a load balancer to select a virtual server to which a request is to be transferred, the load balancer includes a function to monitor resource use states of physical and virtual servers and a function to predict a packet loss occurring in a virtual switch. The request count of requests processible by each virtual server is calculated based on the resource amount available for the virtual server and a packet loss rate of the virtual switch, to thereby select a virtual server capable of processing a larger number of requests. | 11-10-2011 |
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 |
20110314138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAUSE ANALYSIS CONFIGURATION CHANGE - In a computer system that comprises multiple target computers and an analysis computer, one or more first target computers, in which a predetermined application has been installed and invoked, send a log comprising information of multiple configuration changes that have been made prior to invoking the predetermined application to the analysis computer, and the analysis computer receives the log and computes, for each type of configuration change and based on the log, an invocation failure rate which is a percentage at which the invocation of the predetermined application fails subsequent to the configuration change. Then, a second target computer receives, from the analysis computer, first information comprising an invocation failure rate for each type of configuration change related to the predetermined application, and based on the invocation failure rate, displays the type of configuration change that is the cause of the failure of the predetermined application invocation. | 12-22-2011 |
20120066376 | MANAGEMENT METHOD OF COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - To provide a fault analysis result classification function capable of reducing the time required to eliminate a fault in a monitoring target apparatus. The fault analysis results (fault cause candidates) obtained during the fault analysis processing are classified for the influence range of each of the fault cause candidates by analyzing which of the other fault cause candidates relate to the fault events of the apparatus abnormal state, which are used as the basis to derive the each of the fault cause candidates. Further, the classification results are displayed on a GUI. | 03-15-2012 |
20120102542 | SECURITY MONITORING APPARATUS, SECURITY MONITORING METHOD, AND SECURITY MONITORING PROGRAM BASED ON A SECURITY POLICY - A management server monitors even the occurrence of items, which are not targets of security policies, evaluates a change of the monitoring result, and implements specific output when necessary. Particularly, also regarding items which are considered to be non-targets of the security policies in management based on the security policies, the occurrence of such items is also monitored and the monitoring result is appropriately reported to an administrator so that the administrator can recognize a threat and takes necessary countermeasure at appropriate timing. | 04-26-2012 |
20120166649 | MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A resource management method executed by an information processing system having a plurality of physical servers | 06-28-2012 |
20120233317 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - The present invention makes it possible to analyze a problem spanning multiple domains. A management apparatus stores an analysis rule. The analysis rule defines a relationship between a causal event, which constitutes a cause of a problem, and multiple relevant events, which denote problems created by the causal event. A first management apparatus acquires a relevant event related to a prescribed node apparatus, which is not under management of the first management apparatus, from a second management apparatus, which manages the prescribed node apparatus. The first management apparatus analyzes a problem by applying the relevant event acquired from the second management apparatus and another relevant event related to a node apparatus under the management of the first management apparatus to the analysis rule. | 09-13-2012 |
20120297037 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR ALLOCATING IP ADDRESS TO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS IN COMPUTER SUBSYSTEM NEWLY ADDED AND METHOD FOR NEWLY ADDING COMPUTER SUBSYSTEM TO COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer subsystem is provided with a switch apparatus group that is at least one switch apparatus that is coupled to the communication network and a plurality of communication apparatuses that includes an internal management apparatus (an internal apparatus). The internal management apparatus transmits a request of a plurality of IP addresses that are allocated to the plurality of communication apparatuses to an external management apparatus that is disposed outside the computer subsystem. The external management apparatus manages whether or not each of M static IP addresses can be allocated, specifies a plurality of static IP addresses that can be allocated in response to the request, and transmits the plurality of specified static IP addresses to the internal management apparatus. The internal management apparatus allocates the plurality of static IP addresses to a plurality of internal apparatus. | 11-22-2012 |
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 |
20130275975 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SERVER, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM IN WHICH RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IS STORED - It is provided a resource management server comprising: a resource management module for managing virtual machines and use amounts of resources used by the virtual machines for deployment; a pool management module for managing a total amount of the resources and a total amount of available resources; a requirement specification reception module for receiving an allocation requirement for a new virtual machine along with requirement specifications including amounts of resources; and a search module for searching the virtual machines for deployment included in the resource management information for virtual machines for deployment having amounts of resources that satisfy the requirement specifications, and for virtual machines for deployment which do not have the amounts of resources that satisfy the requirement specifications but which allow the amounts of resources that satisfy the requirement specifications to be secured by adding the available resources included in the pool management information. | 10-17-2013 |