Patent ID: 8756309
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A resource information collecting device of periodically collecting plural pieces of resource information by polling, the resource information collecting device comprising: hardware including a processor; a grouping unit implemented at least by the hardware and grouping the pieces of resource information, which are periodically collected over a plurality of pollings conducted at periodic time intervals, into groups, each group comprising the pieces of resource information having a same interval for collection; a collection schedule generating unit implemented at least by the hardware and generating a collection schedule for each of the groups and for collecting the resource information belonging to each group; a collection schedule storage unit implemented at least by the hardware and storing the collection schedule generated by the collection schedule generating unit; a resource information collecting unit implemented at least by the hardware and collecting the pieces of resource information in accordance with the collection schedule stored by the collection schedule storage unit; and a resource information storage unit implemented at least by the hardware and storing the pieces of resource information collected by the resource information collecting unit, wherein the collection schedule generating unit determines whether a largest value of a number of pieces of resource information collected in any of the pollings is exceeding a predetermined number or not when the resource information are collected in accordance with the generated collection schedule, and stops generation of the collection schedule when the largest number is determined to be exceeding the predetermined number, wherein, the collection schedule generating unit generates a different collection schedule for each piece of information such that the number of pieces of resource information collected in any of the pollings does not exceed the predetermined number, and such that at any of the pollings just some and not all the pieces of resource information are collected.