Abstract: An information setting apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor configured to: create a template and assistance information based on setting information indicating disclosure agreements and refusals of each item set by other users who have completed settings for information disclosure to a first service, the template having a disclosure agreement or refusal of each of items for the first service set in advance, the assistance information giving assistance for selecting a disclosure agreement or refusal of each of the items, and output the created template and the created assistance information.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including writing, to a memory, a packet obtained by copying a packet being transmitted, reading, from the memory, the packet to be transferred to a device that diagnoses a communication state, selecting, from packets stored in the memory, one or more packets subjected to at least one of a connection procedure and a disconnection procedure in a predetermined protocol, and discarding, from the memory, one or more packets other than the one or more selected packets.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including writing, to a memory, a packet obtained by copying a packet being transmitted, reading, from the memory, the packet to be transferred to a device that diagnoses a communication state, selecting, from packets stored in the memory, one or more packets subjected to at least one of a connection procedure and a disconnection procedure in a predetermined protocol, and discarding, from the memory, one or more packets other than the one or more selected packets.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a switching device coupled to a network, a first packet transmitted through the network, generating, by the switching device, a first mirror packet of the received first packet by performing a first mirroring processing on the received first packet, the first mirror packet including first identification information identifying the first mirror packet, generating, by the switching device, a first time stamp packet including the first identification information and first time information indicating a first time when the first mirroring processing is performed, transmitting, by the switching device, the first mirror packet and the first time stamp packet to a storage device, and storing, in the storage device, the first mirror packet and the first time stamp packet transmitted from the switching device.

Abstract: A method using a first information processing apparatus and a load balancing apparatus, the first information processing apparatus being configured to operate as a plurality of virtual machines, the method includes transmitting, by the first information processing apparatus, a plurality of packets to the load balancing apparatus, receiving, by the first information processing apparatus, one or more packets included in the plurality of packets distributed by the load balancing apparatus, deciding, by the first information processing apparatus, a first threshold related to a load of the plurality of virtual machines based on a ratio of a number of the one or more packets to a number of the plurality of packets, and deleting, by the first information processing apparatus, one or more virtual machines included in the plurality of virtual machines when the load of the plurality of virtual machines is less than the first threshold.

Abstract: A communication method includes, when a first communication packet transmitted from a first terminal which is deployed in a second physical machine group and included in a first segment is received, storing identification information of the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal, first transmitting the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal to the first network device based on path information included in the configuration information when the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal is a communication packet to a second terminal included in a second segment, when the first communication packet is transmitted from the first network device, and second transmitting the received first communication packet transmitted from the first network device to the second terminal and updating the path information so as to transmit a communication packet transmitted from the first terminal without passing through the first network device.

Abstract: A disclosed method includes: receiving a request to allocate one or plural virtual machines for a system that includes the one or plural virtual machines to one or plural physical machine; reading out first data concerning an evaluation indicator for virtual machine allocation, wherein the first data is registered in association with the system or a requesting source of the request; first calculating, for each virtual machine of the one or plural virtual machines, a first cost in case where the virtual machine is allocated to any one of usable physical machines, based on the read first data to identify, for each virtual machine of the one or plural virtual machines, a physical machine for which the calculated first cost is the least; and generating allocation design data including second data concerning the physical machine identified for each virtual machine of the one or plural virtual machines.

Abstract: A communication method includes, when a first communication packet transmitted from a first terminal which is deployed in a second physical machine group and included in a first segment is received, storing identification information of the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal, first transmitting the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal to the first network device based on path information included in the configuration information when the first communication packet transmitted from the first terminal is a communication packet to a second terminal included in a second segment, when the first communication packet is transmitted from the first network device, and second transmitting the received first communication packet transmitted from the first network device to the second terminal and updating the path information so as to transmit a communication packet transmitted from the first terminal without passing through the first network device.

Abstract: A method for changing a deployment of a virtual machine performed by a computer, at least one of the virtual machines deployed respectively in M physical machines, the method includes obtaining, by the computer, information of remaining capacities of the physical machines from the M physical machine, the remaining capacities which indicate how many virtual machines are deployed in the physical machines, changing, by the computer, the deployment of a virtual machine deployed in the M physical machines to M+N?1 or less physical machines among the M physical machines when a number of physical machines of which remaining capabilities are equal to or greater than a predetermined capability is less than a predetermined number by N.

Abstract: A disclosed method includes: receiving a request to allocate one or plural virtual machines for a system that includes the one or plural virtual machines to one or plural physical machine; reading out first data concerning an evaluation indicator for virtual machine allocation, wherein the first data is registered in association with the system or a requesting source of the request; first calculating, for each virtual machine of the one or plural virtual machines, a first cost in case where the virtual machine is allocated to any one of usable physical machines, based on the read first data to identify, for each virtual machine of the one or plural virtual machines, a physical machine for which the calculated first cost is the least; and generating allocation design data including second data concerning the physical machine identified for each virtual machine of the one or plural virtual machines.

Abstract: A method for changing a deployment of a virtual machine performed by a computer, at least one of the virtual machines deployed respectively in M physical machines, the method includes obtaining, by the computer, information of remaining capacities of the physical machines from the M physical machine, the remaining capacities which indicate how many virtual machines are deployed in the physical machines, changing, by the computer, the deployment of a virtual machine deployed in the M physical machines to M+N?1 or less physical machines among the M physical machines when a number of physical machines of which remaining capabilities are equal to or greater than a predetermined capability is less than a predetermined number by N.

Abstract: In order to perform update processing with high reliability while preventing occurrence of an error in the update order, reduce a load on a management device, and reduce the time required to complete the update processing, according to the present invention, there is provided a network equipment management program that allows a computer to execute: an order information creation step that creates order information which is information corresponding to the order of the network equipments in which setting information is to be set and according to which the setting information is sequentially transmitted from N (N=1, 2, . . . )-th network equipment to (N+1)-th network equipment so as to be set in the respective network at its reception timing of the setting information; and a transmission step that transmits predetermined information including the order information created in the order information creation step to a first network equipment specified in the order information.

Abstract: A method and device of outputting information related to a communication error including obtaining a communication log containing a communication message delivered between a second device and a third device in accordance with a control message transmitted from a first device to the second device. A non-transmitted control message specifying procedure reading out control message association information containing identification information of a control message delivered between the second device and the third device in association with a control message addressed and transmitted from the first device to the second device, and specifying a non-transmitted control message based on the read-out control message association information and the communication log.

Abstract: A network device management apparatus which generates distribution routes for transmitting distribution information via communication devices, in order to distribute information to plural communication devices connected to a network, and makes the distribution information be transmitted in accordance with the generated distribution routes. The apparatus comprises: a hierarchy structure creation section that creates, based on units and the number of communication devices to which the distribution information is to be distributed, a hierarchy structure constituted by the units of communication devices as constitutional elements; and a distribution control section that controls distribution of the distribution information, by use of the hierarchy structure created by the hierarchy structure creation section. Therefore, the network device management apparatus can reduce the total distribution time and distribute information efficiently when the information is distributed to a huge number of communication devices.

Abstract: A method and device of outputting information related to a communication error including obtaining a communication log containing a communication message delivered between a second device and a third device in accordance with a control message transmitted from a first device to the second device. A non-transmitted control message specifying procedure reading out control message association information containing identification information of a control message delivered between the second device and the third device in association with a control message addressed and transmitted from the first device to the second device, and specifying a non-transmitted control message based on the read-out control message association information and the communication log.

Abstract: A computer system has a dual structure including a current system and an auxiliary system. When the current system stops because of server down, a setting module of the auxiliary system acquires an operation log and an operation management procedure from the current system and analyzes the operation log to specify to which part of the operation management procedure has been completed. The setting module performs comparative analysis of the operation log of the current system and communication log. The setting module extracts, from a result of the comparative analysis, information for returning the auxiliary system to a state of work at the stop of the execution of the current system. To resume the stopped work, the setting module sets the information in the auxiliary system.

Abstract: In order to perform update processing with high reliability while preventing occurrence of an error in the update order, reduce a load on a management device, and reduce the time required to complete the update processing, according to the present invention, there is provided a network equipment management program that allows a computer to execute: an order information creation step that creates order information which is information corresponding to the order of the network equipments in which setting information is to be set and according to which the setting information is sequentially transmitted from N (N=1,2, . . . )-th network equipment to (N+1)-th network equipment so as to be set in the respective network at its reception timing of the setting information; and a transmission step that transmits predetermined information including the order information created in the order information creation step to a first network equipment specified in the order information.

Abstract: A network device management apparatus which generates distribution routes for transmitting distribution information via communication devices, in order to distribute information to plural communication devices connected to a network, and makes the distribution information be transmitted in accordance with the generated distribution routes. The apparatus comprises: a hierarchy structure creation section that creates, based on units and the number of communication devices to which the distribution information is to be distributed, a hierarchy structure constituted by the units of communication devices as constitutional elements; and a distribution control section that controls distribution of the distribution information, by use of the hierarchy structure created by the hierarchy structure creation section. Therefore, the network device management apparatus can reduce the total distribution time and distribute information efficiently when the information is distributed to a huge number of communication devices.

Abstract: A data relay apparatus 1 effectively prevents degradation of data quality by selecting a server and a route according to the load information and is arranged between a plurality of servers and a client in order to relay a connection request from the client to one of the servers. The data relay apparatus 1 comprises an information collection section 2 that collects load information on the servers and load information on the respective routes from the data relay apparatus to the servers and a service selection section 5 that selects at least a server and a route to the server in response to the connection request from the client according to the load information collected by the information collection section 2.

Abstract: By providing a plurality of packet relay processing units, each of which is realized by a different CPU, for a packet relay device performing an advanced function, such as a proxy server, a fire wall and the like, which comprises a server and a network interface card connected to this server, sessions can be appropriately distributed among the plurality of packet relay processing units and simultaneously the packet relay device is controlled in such a way that packets in the same session are processed by the same packet relay processing unit.