Patent ID: 8010506

Claim:
A computer-readable recording medium storing a network logging processing program to be executed in a computer of an information processing system including a memory and an external storage having a user's area and a system area, the network logging processing program is for collecting communication information in the system, wherein the program enables the computer to function as: means for, upon receiving a network logging activation instruction, determining whether memory dump information that contains information of the memory at the time of system freezing occurred is stored in the system area, determining whether information for specifying a file for storing collected communication information designated by the network logging activation instruction matches with information for specifying a file for writing communication information collected by network logging at the time of the system freezing contained in the memory dump information, and determining whether both communication information recorded in a network logging file stored in the user's area and communication information contained in the memory dump information are information collected at the same network logging process; means for copying the network logging file to the system area in the case where it is determined that each of the conditions are satisfied; means for writing the communication information contained in the memory dump information to the copied network logging file; and means for restoring the network logging file at the time of system freezing.