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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Masataka Sonoda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Wada, Kawasaki, JP;
Masataka Sonoda, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Wada, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for selecting a candidate for a failure component causing errors from a plurality of components included in a network system, the apparatus includes a processor for executing a procedure. The procedure includes determining a relation class of a relation among the plurality of components on the basis of configuration information of the network system, each of the relations being classified into one of the relation classes in accordance with a direction of an error propagation, determining an investigation range for each component having an error on the basis of investigation information including an error type of an error occurred in the each component and an investigation direction corresponding to the relation class, the investigation range being a set of the components to be investigated, and selecting a component on the basis of an appearance frequency of each component in the investigation ranges as the candidate.