Abstract: A relevant-information providing method comprising in response to update of an application carried out in a system, storing, in a storage, difference information that is a difference between information on the application that has not been updated and information on the application that has been updated and modification information on management of the system modified as a result of the update, in response to acquisition of update information on a first application, extracting, from the stored difference information, a piece of difference information that is in a predetermined similarity relation with first difference information that is a difference between information on the first application that has not been updated and information on the first application that has been updated, and outputting a piece of the modification information corresponding to the piece of difference information that has been extracted.

Abstract: A resource management system includes a memory unit that stores therein performance information of a system; and a processor configured to refer to the performance information and determine whether a requirement for first performance information corresponding to a first system is satisfied when a function of the first system, originally implemented by using a resource of a first data center, is implemented by using a resource of a second data center, and implement the function by using a resource of the second data center, upon determining that the requirement for the first performance information is satisfied, and thereby build a configured system satisfying the requirement for the first performance information by using the resource of the first data center and the resource of the second data center.

Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium stores an execution control program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes receiving an execution request for a given operation for a system; detecting number of operations that are of a type identical to that of the given operation and are under execution by a computing device that is in the system and involved in the execution of the given operation for which the execution request is received; comparing the number of operations detected at the detecting and the number of operations that are of the type and simultaneously executable by the computing device such that the execution of the given operation is completed within a given period by the computing device; and assigning the given operation to the computing device, based on a result of comparison at the comparing.

Abstract: A virtual machine deployment method includes acquiring, by a processor, a template in which definition information is described for deploying a virtual machine, specifying, by a processor, a monitored object to be monitored by a monitoring device from information included the acquired template, generating, by a processor, monitoring definition information that enables the monitoring device to monitor the specified monitored object from monitoring information which associates the specified monitored object with information on a monitoring item that can be monitored by the monitoring device, and deploying, by a processor, the virtual machine based on the acquired template to which a description of the generated monitoring definition information has been added.

Abstract: An administration device in a system in which a first device group and a second device group are connected to a network. The administration device acquires first communication history of the first device group and second communication history of the second device group, compares first specific information which specifies communication source and communication destination of the first communication history and second specific information which specifies communication source and communication destination of the second communication history while referring to relating information and detects a setting error of the second specific information set in the devices of the second device group based on a result of the comparison.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes first and second calculating units and a storing unit. The first calculating unit calculates, when a configuration of a system is changed or the like and a combination of messages occurs, a ratio of the number of occurrences of an event at time points corresponding to a time of occurrence of the combination to the number of occurrences of the combination. The second calculating unit calculates an indicator to determine whether the combination of the messages is used to detect occurrence of the event or to detect a sign of occurrence of the event, based on the ratio and on the number of occurrences of the event. When the indicator indicates that a condition is satisfied, the storing unit stores the combination of the messages as a combination used to detect occurrence of the event or to detect the sign of occurrence of the event.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein a dependency information provision program for causing a computer to execute a process includes: acquiring history information of an amount of data associated with realization of a service by using first software and information regarding second software that can be used to realize the service, specifying information relating to the second software that is substitutable for the first software, from the acquired information relating to the second software, and providing information for determining whether or not to migrate from the first software, which is being used to realize the service, to the second software that is substitutable for the first software, based on the acquired history information and the specified information relating to the second software.

Abstract: A specifying method executed by a computer, the specifying method includes: acquiring, every specific time interval, a measurement value of a specific property from each of a plurality of devices which have the specific property; calculating a variation between the measurement value for each of the plurality of devices and an estimated value based on a plurality of past measurement values which are acquired from the plurality of devices prior to the measurement value; and specifying at least one device, which expresses a different behavior from other devices, from among the plurality of devices based on a set of variations including the variation regarding the plurality of devices.

Abstract: A computer obtains a command history and a plurality of file histories. The command history includes command logs of executed commands. The plurality of file histories each include timing information and a character string indicating a storage location of each file. The computer extracts key commands from the command history on basis of contents of the executed commands. The computer extracts first file histories corresponding to each of the key commands on basis of timing information included in a command log of each of the key commands and timing information included in the plurality of file histories. The computer stores the first file histories in association with a first key command corresponding to the first file histories. The computer selects characteristic words from first character strings included in the first file histories. The computer stores the characteristic words in association with the first key command.

Abstract: A filter rule generation apparatus includes a storage unit and a processor. The storage unit is configured to store instructions. The processor, in accordance with each of the instructions stored on the storage unit, executes a process that causes the filter rule generation apparatus to perform extracting a co-occurrence message group per system, based on a co-occurrence probability, from a plurality of logs in which messages are accumulated, the messages being generated within systems, first generating value information representing a degree of similarity in operation between the systems, based on the extracted co-occurrence message group, clustering the systems, based on the value information, and second generating a rule for extracting messages from the logs of the systems included in each cluster, based on the co-occurrence message group in the cluster generated by the clustering.

Abstract: A determination method, for determining a possibility of a new failure in a system, includes: obtaining first setting values for a plurality of setting items of the system when a failure in the system occurs; obtaining second setting values for the plurality of setting items when an input that the failure has been recovered is received; identifying at least one setting item from among the plurality of setting items based on the first setting values and the second setting values, the at least one setting item having a first setting value different from a second setting value; determining a value from among the first value and the second value of the at least one setting item; comparing an input value regarding the at least one setting item and the value; determining the possibility based on a result of the comparing; and outputting information regarding the possibility.

Abstract: A determination method includes: receiving a request of a change from a first system configured by a first configuration to a second system configured by a second configuration, the request of the change including configuration data related to the first configuration and change data related to the change; extracting a functional requirement for a function that is realized in the first system based on the configuration data; identifying an operational requirement for realizing the first system based on the functional requirement and data about an operational process that is used for the first system; identifying a constraint condition about the second system based on configuration elements of the second configuration that are identified by the configuration data and the change data; and determining feasibility of the change to the second system based on the functional requirement, the operational requirement, and the constraint condition.

Abstract: A relay device that is disposed between a server device and a client device and that relays a request information, comprises a storage section that stores a past processing execution completion time and stipulation information; a reception section that receives the request information; and a computation section that computes a processing execution completion time needed for the server device to execute the specific processing according to the request information received by the reception section, based on: a relationship equation indicating a relationship between the stipulated information stipulating the contents of the specific processing, a coefficient, and the processing execution completion time needed for the server device to complete execution of the specific processing; the past processing execution completion time and the stipulation information stored in the storage section; and the stipulation information included in the request information received from the reception section.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products predict locations of failures. Messages historically received are analyzed to predict a future failure. A pattern in the messages historically received is used to retrieve a template. A location of the future failure is predicted from the template.

Abstract: A search method includes: extracting processes from a target operation manual from which automation software that is obtained by converting, into commands, the processes included in the target operation manual describing a procedure for configuring settings in an information processing device is generated; comparing the processes extracted from the target operation manual with a plurality of processes included in each of a plurality of existing operation manuals in a storage storing the existing operation manuals and automation software generated from the existing operation manuals and associated with the existing operation manuals while maintaining the orders of the processes; calculating first similarities that are similarities between the existing operation manuals and the target operation manual based on the comparing; and searching, based on the calculated first similarities, an existing operation manual similar to the target operation manual and automation software associated with the existing operation

Abstract: A restriction condition extraction apparatus specifies operation targets including a first target and another target related thereto that are operated based on first procedure information in a first execution environment, extracts first procedures related to the specified operation targets from the first procedure information, generates first relation information indicating an execution order on related operation targets regarding the extracted first procedures, specifies operation targets including a second target and another target related thereto that are operated based on second procedure information in a second execution environment, extracts second procedures related to the specified operation targets from the second procedure information, generates second relation information indicating an execution order on related operation targets regarding the extracted second procedures, compares the first and the second relation information, and extracts relations of an execution order on related operation target

Abstract: On the basis of a possible value of a variable that is specified by a conditional sentence extracted from a script that is used for the first system configuration and on the basis of a possible value of an item in configuration information on the first system configuration, a verification device creates a first association relationship that indicates the relationship between the variable and the item. On the basis of a possible value of a variable that is specified by a conditional sentence extracted from a script that is used for a second system configuration and on the basis of a possible value of an item in configuration information on the second system configuration, the verification device creates a second association relationship between the variable and the item. The verification device extracts a difference between the first association relationship and the second association relationship.

Abstract: An extraction method comprising: acquiring configuration information indicating a configuration of a processing device for each generation that represents a respective time period between configuration modifications, and extracting first information indicating configuration modifications between generations based on a plurality of generations of the acquired configuration information; acquiring performance information indicating various types of performance of the processing device at respective times, and extracting, as second information associated with one of the generations, a time when an abnormality was detected in change to a time series of the acquired performance information; acquiring event information indicating an event occurring in the processing device at respective times, and extracting, as third information associated with one of the generations, a time of event information creation when an abnormality was detected; and extracting the first information, the second information, and the third in

Abstract: A failure prediction device generates a failure predictor pattern in accordance with previous cases of failure that has occurred in a first system, the failure predictor pattern being used to detect a predictor of failure in the first system configuration. When a system configuration is changed from the first system configuration to a second system configuration, the failure prediction device calculates the difference information that indicates the difference between the system configurations by using the number of changes that is the accumulated number of times that a change of the configuration item which is included in a system is executed. The failure prediction device determines, in accordance with the calculated difference information, whether the failure predictor pattern is applicable to the detection of a predictor of failure in the second system configuration.

Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer-readable handling-method generation program causing a computer to execute a method including extracting at least one existing system, which has a predetermined similarity with a new system which is newly generated or whose configuration has been changed, based on the similarity between a system configuration of at least one existing system and a system configuration of the new system; and generating candidates of event handling methods corresponding to the new system by using handling methods corresponding to a predetermined event which corresponds to the extracted existing system.