Patent ID: 7266564

Claim:
A management item management system for managing management items with respect to management targets retained by an operations management module that operates and manages the management targets in a computer system, the management item management system comprising: an operations management information module configured to accumulate operations management information that identifies management targets and operations management modules managing the management targets in the computer system, wherein the operations management information identifies management items; a display module configured to display the operations management information including the management targets, wherein the display module is configured to display a plurality of editing processing classes with respect to the operations management information and the management items; a selection module configured to select operations management information which contains a management target displayed by the display module in response to an instruction of a user, wherein the selection module is configured to select the operations management information and the plurality of editing processing classes with respect to the management items in response to the instruction of the user; and an editing instruction unit, wherein the editing instruction unit is configured to issue an editing instruction for editing processing of the selected editing processing classes with respect to the management items identified as editing processing items; and an editing execution unit configured to move the editing processing items to a different storage module from a storage module storing the management items when an editing processing class with respect to the management items identified as editing processing items has temporarily stopped in response to a temporary stop instruction being issued for a management target associated with the editing processing class, and to move the editing processing items from the different storage module to the storage module storing the management items prior to the temporary stopping when the temporary stopping is cancelled in response to the temporary stopping instruction for the management target being cancelled.