Patent ID: 8904234
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A monitoring method for monitoring one or more apparatuses based on information on a plurality of items acquired from the one or more apparatuses, the monitoring method comprising: retrieving, by a processor when a first item and a second item are specified as examination targets, a third item based on the first item and the second item by referring to a storage device configured to store relationship information which indicates a relationship among the plural items, in which relationship the information on one item has an effect on the information on another item; adding, by the processor, the retrieved third item to the examination targets; examining, by the processor, the information on the third item whose information is associated with the information on the first item and the information on the second item; omitting, by the processor, examination of the information on the first item and the information on the second item in a case where no failure is detected in the examination of the information on the third item; and examining, by the processor, the information on the first item and the information on the second item in a case where a failure is detected in the examination of the information on the third item.