Patent ID: 8176202

Claim:
A multi-host management server computer that manages a plurality of host computers, where each host computer has a plurality of paths set between the host computer and a storage apparatus and stores path information for each host computer, the multi-host management server computer comprising: a memory; a reception section that receives failure information for each incidence of failure of any path from the plurality of host computers, and stores the received said failure information for said each incidence of failure in a failure information reception queue; an extraction section that extracts any plural different incidences of failure information concerning different failures of different paths which are associated with a common host computer, from the failure information reception queue; a retrieval section that retrieves failure information about one path from the extracted said plural different incidences of failure information of the different paths of the common host computer; a registration section that registers, based on the retrieved failure information about the one path, host indicating information indicating the common host computer relevant to this failure information, in a host refresh queue for queuing up an updating of path information for the common host computer; a deletion section that deletes, after the registration of the host-indicating information in the host refresh queue, the plural different incidences of failure information concerning the common host computer from the failure information reception queue; and an execution section that executes, based on the host-indicating information in the host refresh queue, retrieval of updated path information for the common host computer, and an update of path information for the common host computer based on retrieved said updated path information.