Abstract: An informing system is provided that informs an optimum person to be called of a failure when a failure occurs in an information processing system. The informing system includes operation monitoring means (13) for detecting a failure in the information processing system and for acquiring the failure situation, time monitoring means (17) for acquiring a failure time when the failure in the information processing system is detected by the operation monitoring means (13), device to-be-called lists (22, 23) having a record of the types of the device to be called that is used for calling and the priorities of call numbers corresponding to the failure situation and the failure time, list updating means (18) for updating the device-to-be-called list, and calling means (16) for searching the device-to-be-called list using the failure situation and the failure time as keys and for calling by determining the type of the device to be called and the call number.

Abstract: An informing system is provided that informs an optimum person to be called of a failure when a failure occurs in an information processing system. The informing system includes operation monitoring means (13) for detecting a failure in the information processing system and for acquiring the failure situation, time monitoring means (17) for acquiring a failure time when the failure in the information processing system is detected by the operation monitoring means (13), device-to-be-called lists (22, 23) having a record of the types of the device to be called that is used for calling and the priorities of call numbers corresponding to the failure situation and the failure time, list updating means (18) for updating the device-to-be-called list, and calling means (16) for searching the device-to-be-called list using the failure situation and the failure time as keys and for calling by determining the type of the device to be called and the call number.