Abstract: A management server calculates a required amount of computational resource required to execute the application based on a processing speed of each application and a computational resource model. When a usage rate of the computational resource within an execution time limit of the workflow exceeds an upper limit, the management server calculates, using the computational resource model, a first executable time during which the application is executable on an available capacity of the computational resource. The management server sets a target execution time of the application in executing the workflow as a first executable time, and adjusts to add an extension time of the target execution time according to the first executable time to a target execution time of another application that does not exceed the computational resource upper limit so as to postpone an end time-of-day of the application and advance a start time-of-day of the other application.

Abstract: A management apparatus includes: a service information acquisition unit that acquires resource information indicating an available resource of a computer, and acquires service information including a target sensor that acquires data to be used by a target service, a required resource for the target service, and a target controller that executes control by the target service; and an arrangement measurement unit that set a computer that covers the required resource by the available resource as a candidate computer, calculates, for a candidate course, which is a combination of an input course from the target sensor to the candidate computer and an output course from the candidate computer to the target controller, a total cost for causing data to be used by the target service to flow, by considering a path through which the data to be used by the target service is caused to flow by a co-existing service.

Abstract: An inter-switch communication management apparatus for allocating communication bands of inter-switch connections in accordance with priorities is provided. An inter-switch communication management apparatus 200 includes: a virtual network request receiving unit that receives an addition or change of a virtual network as a request with a priority; an inter-switch communication band allocation unit that allocates a communication band to be preferentially used to an inter-switch communication band of a connection between two switches in descending order of the priority of virtual networks; and a switch setting unit that sets the allocated communication band to the connection between the two switches.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A resource management method executed by an information processing system having a plurality of physical servers 104 and a plurality of virtual servers 120 to be operated on the physical server, and a management server 101 connected to the physical server via a network 207 to specify the virtual server associated to a resource pool 130 and the physical server for operating the virtual server, collect performance information of the specified physical server, and calculate the performance information of the resource pool on the basis of the collected performance information.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A management computer manages a resource to be managed and outputs an operation procedure to be automated from an operation procedure included in an operation for changing a configuration of the resource to be managed. The operation procedure includes a manual procedure and an automatic execution procedure. The management computer stores time information including an initiation time of initiating the operation procedure and a termination time of terminating the operation procedure and time-series information about the resource to be managed. The management computer acquires time-series information corresponding to the time information of the operation procedure from the time-series information, determinates whether the operation procedure takes time mainly for the manual procedure or takes time mainly for the automated procedure based on the acquired time-series information, and outputs the determination result.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Provided is an IT system to minimize occurrence of a bottleneck on a network while effectively making use of the bandwidth of the network. A system management apparatus collects performance information from a network device, and calculates the average value, the peak hour, and the variance from the collected performance information. In response to a request for addition of a business system, the system management apparatus builds configuration patterns of a group of virtual servers configuring the business system and monitors traffic states of the paths on the network, identifies the part of the network where the traffic quality is most degraded, and determines the pattern that includes the path which has the smallest variance in the traffic based on traffic information on the part where the communication quality is degraded identified in each pattern as the requested system configuration of the business system.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.