Patent ID: 6510205
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
An informing system to inform of failure contents using a communication line when a failure occurs in an information processing system, comprising:an operation monitoring unit to detect an occurrence of the failure in the information processing system and to acquire a failure situation; a time monitoring unit to acquire a failure time when the failure of the information processing system detected by the operation monitoring unit occurs; a device-to-be-called list containing types of devices to be called and priorities of call numbers used for calling each person to be called in accordance with the failure situation and the failure time, the devices to be called being prepared for each person to be called; a list updating unit to update the device-to-be-called list; and a calling unit to search the device-to-be-called list using the failure situation and the failure time as keys and to call by designating a type and a call number of a device to be called.