Hitachi, Ltd.

Takaki Kuroda

Nobuo Beniyama

Takayuki Nagai

Yuji Mizote

Toru Takahashi

Kiminori Sugauchi

Tatsundo Aoshima

Tomohiro Morimura

Masataka Nagura

Masanori Honda

Shigeru Miyake

Tetsuya Maruyama

Tomoyuki Kaji

Masayoshi Matsumoto

Atsushi Ito

Satoshi Fukuda

Taro Inoue

Masashi Kunii

Atsushi Mikami

Yoshihiro Arato

Kiyoshi Tanabe

Takayoshi Soeda

Nobuhiro Maki

Toshiaki Hirata

Daisuke Shinohara

Kazuyoshi Hoshino

Mineyoshi Masuda

Atsushi Murase

Masahiro Yamada

Akira Nikaido

Hiroshi Hayakawa

Kenichi Kihara

Taketoshi Sakuraba

Seiichi Domyo

Takeshi Arisaka

Toshiyuki Hasegawa

Junji Fukuzawa

Mitsunori Satomi

Shogo Mikami

Masaaki Oya

Shigeyuki Kobayashi

Atsushi Kobayashi

Masao Suzuki

Hidenori Akatoki

Takumi Tomita

Yusuke Izumida

Kaori Murase

Masao Menjo

Naofumi Shouji

Takayuki Machida

Emiko Ata

Yusaku Nakamura

Motoki Yoshimura

Yasuhiko Onitsuka

Yuki Sugata

Yoshihiro Hashimoto

Hirohiko Nakano

Yasunori Nishitani

A method for a storage monitoring system including a storage device, a manager, and agents, wherein said manager: stores information about a first range of components of a first type that are among types of components included in the storage device, and that are to be monitored by a first agent of the agents, said stored information being associated with information about the first agent; notifies the first agent of the information about the first range of components to be monitored; stores information about a second range of components of the first type that are among the types of components, and that are to be monitored by a second agent of the agents, said stored information being associated with information about the second agent; and notifies the second agent of the information about the second range of components to be monitored.

Storage monitoring system for monitoring components in a storage system in a distributed manner

Provided is a performance information management system which includes a target apparatus having a plurality of components as monitoring targets and a management computer for managing the target apparatus and which manages performance information of the target apparatus with the management computer, wherein the target apparatus is capable of acquiring performance information for each monitoring target, and the management computer is configured to: allocate an initial storage area of which capacity differs for each monitoring target to each of the monitoring targets; detect depletion of a storage area allocated to a monitoring target when attempting to store the performance information of the monitoring target to the storage area; additionally allocate a consecutive storage area with a prescribed capacity to the monitoring target with the depleted storage area; and store the performance information of the monitoring target in the additionally-allocated storage area.

Performance information management system, management computer, and performance information management method

A monitor system transmits a request requesting event occurrence information to multiple node apparatuses, detects occurrence of an event on the basis of event occurrence information included in a response, calculates an index value of each of conclusions of multiple rules indicating corresponding relationship between one or more condition events and a conclusion, and generates, at a predetermined time point, a snapshot indicating an index value at that time point. When the monitor system receives a first response in reply to a first request, the monitor system updates the index value indicated by the snapshot generated in a period from a transmission date/time of the first request to a reception date/time of the first response, on the basis of the first response.

Monitor system and monitor program

A monitoring system performs cause analysis of an event occurring in any of a plurality of monitoring-target objects to be monitored based on a rule. In this case, the monitoring system makes a detection during the analysis time width and determines a plurality of conclusions based on an event corresponding to the condition for determining the conclusion. Moreover, the monitoring system performs one or more of (A) displaying change of certainty to be used for determination of a conclusion in a case where the analysis time width is assumed to be changed, (B) performing sort display of the determined conclusion based on an index value showing an affected range and (C) calculating the analysis time width based on the index value.

Monitoring system and monitoring program

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.

Management computer and method for root cause analysis

To analyze the cause if an event occurred to a plurality of monitoring targets. A monitoring computerincludes a general rule storing partconfigured to store a general rule, wherein the general rule previously associates a first event which can occur in any of the plurality of monitoring targets and a second event which can cause the first event, an correlation rule generating partconfigured to generate an correlation rule, wherein the correlation rule is created based on the general rule and configuration information, and in the case where a predetermined number or more of events corresponding to the second events are detected, the correlation rule indicates that an event corresponding to the first event will occur, and an analyzing partconfigured to analyze a cause of an event indicated by the event information based on received event information and the correlation rule.

Computer program and monitoring apparatus

A management server includes a meta rule for identifying an event to be a root cause and a failure recovery method that corresponds to the meta rule for an event capable of occurring in a plurality of node apparatuses, and also displays a cause event to be a root cause of an event detected by the management server, and a method for recovering from this cause event.

Management system for outputting information denoting recovery method corresponding to root cause of failure

A monitoring system quantifies either a configuration change or a status change of a monitoring target, and displays a change value thereof. Furthermore, the monitoring target refers to either a monitoring-target apparatus or a component of a monitoring-target apparatus. Moreover, in a case where multiple monitoring information acquisition intervals are used a change value may be computed and displayed for each of multiple monitoring targets. There may also be a case in which a time axis of a chronological graph of monitoring numeric values and a time axis of a chronological graph of change values are displayed collectively.

Monitoring system and monitoring method

A system management apparatus for managing a computer system receives plug-in distribution data from a plug-in distribution apparatus. The plug-in distribution data comprises plug-in definition information and template definition information. The system management apparatus uses the plug-in definition information to acquire information from the management target apparatus, and determines whether or not to issue an alert based on the template definition information. The distribution of the plug-in and the template at the same time means that the user can avoid confusion regarding the threshold setting.

Management system and computer system management method

The present invention achieves data relocation in accordance with a user's policies, in an environment where a plurality of storage devices coexist. The volumes belonging to storage devices A-D are managed virtually integrally. A host recognizes a plurality of storage devices A-D as a single virtual storage device. The user is able to group arbitrarily each volume belonging to the storage system, as a plurality of storage layers-. For example, storage layercan be defined as a high-reliability layer, storage layer, as a low-cost layer, and storage layer, as an archive layer. Each storage layer is constituted by a group of volumes corresponding to respective policies (high reliability, low cost, archiving). The user designates volumes Vand Vto be moved, in group units, and indicates a storage layer forming a movement destination, whereby the data is relocated.

Storage system and data relocation control device

A management device and management method capable of improving usability of a storage system is proposed. The management device and the management method for managing data migration between volumes in a storage system in which normal volumes to which fixed storage areas are allocated in advance and virtual volumes to which storage areas are dynamically allocated according to use status coexist as types of volumes for reading and writing data is arranged so that information regarding each volume is collected, and based on the collected information, at least a total logical capacity that is a summation of logical capacities determined in advance for the respective volume is separately displayed for normal volumes and virtual volumes.

Data migration management device and method

A management apparatus stores attribute/protocol management information denoting each attribute/protocol relationship. The management apparatus, for each of multiple addresses prior to inputting the credential used to detect the communication apparatus, (A) issues a query that specifies an address, (B) upon receiving a response to this query from the communication apparatus at the address specified in this query, writes, to a storage resource, query result information denoting the corresponding relationship between the address specified in this query and the communication apparatus attribute acquired based on the response, (C) identifies the management protocol corresponding to the communication apparatus attribute denoted by the query result information from the attribute/protocol management information, and (D) decides the optimum management protocol for the address based on the identified management protocol.

Method and management apparatus for detecting communication apparatus coupled to communication network

An object of the present invention is to create information for use in problem analysis only for a required event in a case where an event denoting a change in the configuration of a computer system has been detected. A management apparatus detects a configuration change of the computer system as an event and records this event in an event management table T. The management apparatus holds an event propagation model for analyzing a problem, and records an event corresponding to the event propagation model in target event management information T. The management apparatus executes a problem analysis process in a case where a detected event is registered in the target event management information.

Computer system management method and management apparatus

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Takaki Kuroda