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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2004
Masahiro Kurosawa, Yokohama, JP;
Masahiro Kurosawa, Yokohama, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A design supporting method for an information processing system having a plurality of apparatuses connected via a network. Identification information of each apparatus is acquired through network connection from a network configuration design supporting apparatus. Schedule information of each identified apparatus is acquired from a storage unit and compared with a reserved time period of the information processing system, and an apparatus unavailable in the reserved time period is extracted. Identification information of each substitute apparatus for the extracted apparatus is acquired from the network configuration design supporting apparatus, schedule information of the identified substitute apparatus is acquired from the storage unit and compared with the reserved time period, and information of a substitute apparatus available in the reserved time period is output to support a change in each apparatus.