Patent ID: 8516097

Claim:
A server managing apparatus with a computer processor managing a server group including a plurality of physical servers each of which functions as one or more logical servers, the server managing apparatus comprising: a storing unit that stores a plurality of server information each of which includes physical server information and logical server information, each physical server information and each logical server information being related to a slot number, the slot number identifying a slot in which a physical server is stored, the logical server information further including information on use application and attribute information for a logical server; and a displaying unit that executes on the computer processor for reading the server information from the storing unit, and displaying the physical server information and the logical server information, based on the server information, on a screen including a plurality of slot correspondence information display areas each of which corresponds to a slot number, each physical server information and each logical server information being displayed in a slot correspondence information display area which corresponds to same slot number for the physical server information and the logical server information, wherein the displaying unit displays, on the screen, a condition of a physical server corresponding to the physical server information, and a condition of a logical server corresponding to the logical server information, in a state that the condition of the physical server and the condition of the logical server are related on the screen by a displayed slot correspondence display area to a physical location of the physical server, and wherein the physical server information comprises information indicating a power condition of the physical server, and condition of the physical server indicating that the physical server is in one or more of stop condition, error condition, normal condition and alarm condition, and the logical server information comprises a type of OS (Operating System), and condition of the logical server indicating that the logical server is in one or more of stop condition, error condition and alarm condition.