Patent ID: 8386669
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for managing configuration information indicative of a configuration of resources making up a storage system with which I/O paths are set in a storage device, the information processing apparatus comprising: a monitoring object detecting unit that, upon detecting a change in settings of the I/O paths, extracts resources making up an invalidated I/O path that is invalidated by the change in the settings of the I/O paths as monitoring object resources; a performance information acquiring unit that acquires performance information indicative of performances of the monitoring object resources from the storage system; a performance information monitoring unit that performs a judgment of whether the performance information of the monitoring object resources acquired by the performance information acquiring unit matches a preset policy; and a deletion period setting unit that determines a timing to make configuration information related to the invalidated I/O path deletable from the storage device based on a result of the judgment of whether the performance information of the monitoring object resources matches the preset policy, and manages the determined timing in a manner correlated with the configuration information, wherein the preset policy is a policy representative of whether a performance failure is occurring in the monitoring object resource, a judgment of whether the preset policy is met is made by judging whether or not a metrics value of the monitoring object resource exceeds a preset threshold value in a predetermined period.