Patent ID: 9619314
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for configuring a management system, the method comprising: determining that an event has occurred in one of a plurality of management target devices; executing a cause analysis of the event and specifying a first candidate cause event based on one or more rules, wherein the one or more rules indicate a correspondence relationship between a plurality of cause events and one or more condition events; calculating a certainty factor indicating the certainty for the first candidate cause event being a true cause of the event; specifying a plurality of first plans based on the first candidate cause event and the certainty factor, wherein each of the first plans includes a recovery measure that can be executed; calculating, for each of the plurality of first plans, an index value indicating a possibility of succeeding in a failure recovery based on plan history information indicating success or failure of a particular recovery measure; displaying displayed data indicating one or more plans of the plurality of first plans that have index values that are equal to or larger than a predetermined value; arranging the displayed data in an order from largest to smallest index value; and if the certainty factor is equal to or larger than a threshold, executing a particular first plan having a largest index value among the plurality of first plans.