Abstract: A conventional configuration file edition method used for changing operation of a program that is operated on a computer involves a problem that a user is required to learn a complex method for changing a configuration file when a plurality of programs are provided in the form of one product because the method is different for respective programs. An intermediate configuration file that stores setting information of a configuration file, a method for forming a configuration screen, and a method for forming a configuration file is prepared, and provided to a configuration file integration base. The configuration file integration base provides an integrated configuration console to a user by use of the intermediate configuration file. The setting information is stored in the intermediate configuration file when a user changes the setting information on the integrated configuration console, and a configuration file is formed from the intermediate configuration file.

Abstract: A computer system that is able to recover data at an arbitrary point in time using journals even after a data volume has been migrated between storage apparatuses. The computer system has a data recovery management unit create continuous journal data that ensures the continuity of journals before and after the migration of the data volume and, based on that continuous journal data, recovers the data.

Abstract: Provided is a method of performing backup and recovery of data by using journaling, and performing management upon occurrence of a failure. The method includes: a first step of setting a recovery point indicative of the given time; a second step of creating an information of correspondence between the snapshot and the journal data which is required to restore data at the set recovery point time; a third step of detecting the occurrence of failure of the disk drive; and a fourth step of detecting the recovery point at which data cannot be restored due to the failure of the disk drive.

Abstract: A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery; and a management computer.

Abstract: In a storage system in which a pair is configured by a remote copy, when a fault occurs in the pair, data to be lost is determined. Provided is a management computer connected to a storage system, in which the storage system includes: a primary logical volume in which data is stored and an secondary logical volume in which a replication of the data stored in the primary logical volume is stored; the primary logical volume and the secondary logical volume form a pair; the management computer comprises a data management module for managing data stored in the primary and secondary logical volumes; and the data management module obtains an event regarding the pair, determines whether the event is caused by a fault occurring in the pair, determines data made to be inconsistent by the fault in the case where the event is caused by the fault, and outputs information on the inconsistent data.

Abstract: A backup system is configured by interconnecting a backup management device and disk array device via a SAN. The backup management device allows an administrator to set backup cycle, number of backup generations, and save periods. On the basis of these settings, the backup management device performs an overwrite decision process, and executes backup processes in such a way that the administrator can manage the desired number of generations of backup data with a limited number of volumes. By so doing, the administrator is able to manage multiple generations of backup data, while being allowed to set the save period for each generation on an individual basis.

Abstract: An interface for use in a backup management device that administers multiple generations of backup data by rotating a plurality of rewriteable backup media while recording backup data onto the backup media according to a predetermined backup cycle, the interface having a period display area displayed together with a time axis, predetermined areas of length corresponding to period length and divided by means of divider lines into areas equal in number to the number of save periods for which the backup data should be saved, and the length of each area being displayed as the length of each save period, wherein the period display area allows the save period to be modified by means of moving the divider line through operation of a pointing device by the user.

Abstract: Information of plural management programs is integrated to predict influence caused by a change in configuration. There is provided a computer system including: a storage subsystem provided with plural disks and a disk array control unit; and a management computer provided with a control unit which manages the storage subsystem, wherein the control unit obtains upon receiving an execution request event which has taken place in a management program provided to manage the computer system, a management job that is associated with the event, and marks up an extent of the impact of the event along with the management job associated with the event.

Abstract: A backup system is configured by interconnecting a backup management device and disk array device via a SAN. The backup management device allows an administrator to set backup cycle, number of backup generations, and save periods. On the basis of these settings, the backup management device performs an overwrite decision process, and executes backup processes in such a way that the administrator can manage the desired number of generations of backup data with a limited number of volumes. By so doing, the administrator is able to manage multiple generations of backup data, while being allowed to set the save period for each generation on an individual basis.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an accepting unit for accepting inputs of identification information of a developed software program and parameter values used by the software program at a time of setup and an operation processing unit for generating identification information accepted by the input accepting unit and parameter configuration information used for defining the parameter values, thereby generating a parameter configuration table having the software identification information and the parameter values as information accompanied with the software and reducing a burden of setup of the system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a performance monitoring method of a processing flow that, in a distributed object system, a processing is completed after going by way of processing of several objects through objects. A collector collects, as performance data, a receiving time of a message from the other object and a sending time of a message to the other for an object that becomes a measurement target on each computer. A manager puts received performance data together and calculates and displays a processing time of each object that constitutes a processing flow and a communication time between objects.

Abstract: The present invention provides a performance monitoring method of a processing flow that, in a distributed object system, a processing is completed after going by way of processing of several objects through objects. A collector collects, as performance data, a receiving time of a message from the other object and a sending time of a message to the other for an object that becomes a measurement target on each computer. A manager puts received performance data together and calculates and displays a processing time of each object that constitutes a processing flow and a communication time between objects.

Abstract: A conventional configuration file edition method used for changing operation of a program that is operated on a computer involves a problem that a user is required to learn a complex method for changing a configuration file when a plurality of programs are provided in the form of one product because the method is different for respective programs. An intermediate configuration file that stores setting information of a configuration file, a method for forming a configuration screen, and a method for forming a configuration file is prepared, and provided to a configuration file integration base. The configuration file integration base provides an integrated configuration console to a user by use of the intermediate configuration file. The setting information is stored in the intermediate configuration file when a user changes the setting information on the integrated configuration console, and a configuration file is formed from the intermediate configuration file.

Abstract: A management system of one embodiment of the invention has a management computer and a managed computer which is managed by the management computer. The management computer comprises a communication device configured to receive operating data of a monitoring object inside a managed computer and information relating to an event. A processor is configured to identify from the operating data received by the communication device a portion of the operating data which relates to the event, based on the operating data and the information relating to the event indicating trouble occurrence or performance decrement of the monitoring object.