Patent ID: 8352595

Claim:
A system management method for a computer system including a computer, storage apparatuses, a plurality of logical volumes being created for use by the storage apparatuses, a computer monitoring module corresponding to the computer, storage monitoring modules corresponding to the storage apparatuses, a plurality of comprehensive control modules, and an integrated control module, the method comprising: receiving, by a first comprehensive control module of the plurality of comprehensive control modules, an input of a backup target application executed by the computer, instructing the computer monitoring module to switch a mode of the backup target application to an online backup mode using a standard protocol; instructing, by the first comprehensive control module, a certain one of the storage monitoring modules corresponding to one of the storage apparatuses providing a primary volume, which stores data of the backup target application, to split a pair including the primary volume and a secondary volume using the standard protocol; and instructing, by the first comprehensive control module, the computer monitoring module to complete the online backup mode of the backup target application using the standard protocol, wherein the storage apparatuses include a first storage apparatus of a first vendor and a second storage apparatus of a second vendor different from the first vendor, and wherein the certain one of the storage monitoring modules converts the split instruction from the first comprehensive control module to a first inherent split instruction which is inherent to the first storage apparatus and which is unavailable to the second storage apparatus, wherein the integrated control module comprises a standard information storage module, the standard information storage module providing integrated management of standard information, wherein the standard information comprises collected information, the collected information including performance information and free space information, the performance information indicating performance of the logical volumes and the storage apparatuses, and the free space information indicating a capacity of the logical volumes, and wherein each of the plurality of comprehensive control modules previously stores the collected information to the standard information storage module.