Patent ID: 9183264
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A configuration information management device including: a storage unit that stores a configuration item managed by the device and an item relationship, with respect to configuration items related to a system and item relationships that associate the configuration items with one another, the configuration items and the item relationships being distributed in a plurality of devices; a management unit, executed by at least one processor, when a first configuration item stored in the storage unit has a feature, creates duplicates of second configuration items which do not have the feature and are managed by other devices, the second configuration items being associated with the first configuration item, and duplicates of relationships between the first configuration item and the second configuration items, the duplicates being created in the storage unit, the management unit including a search unit that, upon receipt of a search request for configuration information that associates the configuration items with one another by the item relationships, searches for the information about the configuration information with the use of the duplicates created in the storage unit.