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Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 04, 2008
Applicants:

Shinya Takeuchi, Fujisawa, JP;

Haruki Masuda, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Shinya Takeuchi, Fujisawa, JP;

Haruki Masuda, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Provided is a multi-host management server that includes: a reception section that receives failure information about paths from hosts and stores the received failure information in a failure information reception queue; an extraction section that extracts from the failure information reception queue plural pieces of failure information about a plurality of paths received from a common host; a retrieval section that retrieves failure information about one path from the extracted plural pieces of failure information about the plurality of paths; a registration section that registers information indicating a host in a host refresh queue for updating path information; a deletion section that deletes, after the registration, the plural pieces of failure information about the plurality of paths received from the common host from the failure information reception queue; and an execution section that executes update of path information for the relevant host.


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