Patent ID: 8156315
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus validating a configuration of a storage system having a server device, a storage device providing the server device with a storage area, and a relay device coupling the storage device and the server device, comprising: a configuration information storing part acquiring and storing constituent element information pieces from the server device, the storage device, and the relay device, the constituent element information pieces each being information on a constituent element that is a test target of a vendor certification test to be conducted in order to obtain a certification for the storage system from a vendor of software installed in the server device; a configuration change detecting part comparing the stored constituent element information pieces that are stored in the configuration information storing part with the constituent element information piece that is acquired from the storage system by the configuration information storing part, so as to determine whether there is a change in the acquired constituent element information piece, and, if determining that there is a change in the acquired constituent element information piece, the configuration change detecting part comparing the acquired constituent element information piece determined as being changed with certified constituent element information pieces that are stored in a storing device coupled to the information processing apparatus and having received the vendor certification, so as to determine whether the storing device includes any certified constituent element information piece which matches the acquired constituent element information piece determined as being changed; a vendor certification test conducting part conducting the vendor certification test targeted for the storage system having the acquired constituent element information piece determined as being changed, if the configuration change detecting part determines that no matching constituent element information piece is included; and a data storing part storing, in the storing device, a result of the vendor certification test conducted by the vendor certification test conducting part.