Patent ID: 9529656
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer recovery method for a computer system, the computer system comprising: a management computer comprising a processor and a memory; and a computer comprising a processor, a memory, and a monitoring part for notifying, when an abnormality occurs, the management computer of the abnormality, the management computer being configured to instruct recovery from the abnormality, the computer recovery method comprising: obtaining, by the management computer, hardware components and software components of the computer as configuration information, which indicates a communication relationship between the hardware components and software components, and includes an identifier and a type value indicating a type of each of the hardware components and software components; receiving, by the management computer, notification of an abnormality from the monitoring part of the computer including an identifier of one of the hardware components and software component; and generating, by the management computer, in response to the notification of the abnormality, component string information for identifying a component where the abnormality has occurred from the configuration information based on the identifier in the notification of the abnormality, the component string information is data identifying one or more of the hardware components and software components having the abnormality in the computer; referring to a type value that corresponds to a hardware component or a software component in the configuration information and obtaining a process, which is predetermined and corresponds to the type value for each hardware component and software component, executing the obtained process and obtaining, by the management computer, a response to the obtained process; updating, by the management computer, the component string information based on the response obtained for the hardware component or the software component; and setting a given value to a component in the component string information when an abnormality is indicated in the response.