Patent ID: 8423162

Claim:
A management method of an information processing system including an active server apparatus and a standby server apparatus coupled to one another, and a management server coupled to the active server apparatus and to the standby server apparatus, which after turning on a power supply to the standby server apparatus, performs a failover from the active server apparatus to the standby server apparatus when detecting an occurrence of a failure in the active server apparatus, the standby server apparatus being provided with a checking part that checks the standby server apparatus when the standby server apparatus is turned on, the management method comprising the steps of: selecting, by the management server, the standby server apparatus based on configuration management information, the configuration management information being held in the management server and including information indicating whether or not each server apparatus coupled to the management server is the standby server apparatus, and information indicating a status of a power supply of each server apparatus coupled to the management server; turning on the power supply to the standby server apparatus; checking the standby server apparatus by the checking part; requesting, by the management server, the standby server apparatus to acquire check result information by the checking part; receiving, by the standby server apparatus, the acquired check result information; acquiring, by the management server, the received check result information; turning off the power supply to the standby server apparatus; and judging, based on the acquired information, whether or not the failover from the active server apparatus to the standby server apparatus is possible.