Fujitsu Corporation

Giro Hirai

Mikayo Kosugi

Takanori Shimizu

Mitsuo Sakurai

Kazuhiro Matsushita

Yasushi Makiyama

Shouichi Matsuoka

Junichi Nagase

Toshiyuki Kitami

Kenichi Arika

A start processing unit conducts start processings including a self diagnosis processing and a BOOT processing of an operating system and then starts an application when power of a computer system is turned on. A trouble notification unit controls the power of the computer system and integrally monitors a trouble of the start processing unit and a trouble during system operation. The trouble notification unit, provided as a server management support board, acquires log information stored in the start processing unit and notifies an external remote maintenance system of the log information as well as an alarm message trough a dedicated network interface when the trouble notification unit detects the trouble of the start processing unit (system down).

Computer, system management support apparatus and management method

A reception unit receives resource information transmitted through a network and constituted by a resource for version-up and an application program which applies the resource and stores the resource information in an operation region of a storage device. A decision unit decides whether an application occasion of the resource stored has come or not. When it is decided that the application occasion has come, an execution unit performs a process of copying the resource information in a maintenance region of the storage device and making the maintenance region valid in the next boot-up operation of a system.

Automatic firmware version upgrade system

In a cache system for executing a cache operation for an external storage device, there is disposed a block number table for stopping a cache function for an external storage device, for which a storage medium is exchanged, when the storage medium of the external storage device is exchanged, and stores the number of data stored from each external storage device into the cache memory when all the data cached from a certain external storage device are purged out by a purging process or an LRU process, so as to restore the cache function of this external storage device.

Cache system of external storage device

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Kawasaki, Japan

Giro Hirai