Patent ID: 7792803

Claim:
A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program for retrieving a log of an information processing apparatus connected, through a network, to a log administration apparatus that administers logs, the computer program making a computer execute steps comprising: receiving a retrieval condition for a log of the information processing apparatus; judging whether input retrieval condition has relevance to a retrieval condition recorded in a log cache in the log administration apparatus; determining a retrieval target from which the log is to be retrieved, the retrieval target being selected to include at least one of the log administration apparatus and the information processing apparatus based on a result of judgment at the judging; retrieving a log satisfying the retrieval condition from among logs recorded in the retrieval target; and outputting a result of retrieval at the retrieving, wherein the judging includes judging coincidence between the input retrieval condition and the recorded retrieval condition, the determining includes selecting the log cache of the log administration apparatus as the retrieval target when it is judged, at the judging, that the input retrieval condition completely coincides with the recorded retrieval condition or that the input retrieval condition is included in the recorded retrieval condition, and the determining includes selecting the information processing apparatus as the retrieval target when it is judged, at the judging, that the input retrieval condition does not coincide with the recorded retrieval condition.