Patent ID: 8424095

Claim:
A policy verification method for verifying a system management policy, said system management policy being used in an information processing system including one or more system components, and describing system management operations to be performed to automatically execute system management operations on said system components, each one of said system management operations identifying a corresponding system component to be requested to perform an operation responsive to an event, the method for verifying whether the system management operations to be automatically requested by said system management policy are correct or not, said information processing system including: a test tool; a system management server holding system component information for each said one or more system components constituting said information processing system, said system component information indicating identification information identifying said system component, and address information to access said system component, said system component information being used for sending the system management operation to the identified system component; and a policy manager storing system management policy, wherein said method comprising said test tool, in testing, effecting operations of: modifying said address information of said system component information for all system components, stored in said system management server, to redirect-address information which redirects delivery to said test tool as a substitute destination in order for said test tool to be able to receive a result of the system management operations during testing, instead of said corresponding system component; acquiring configuration information of the information processing system from system management server; generating a test item specifying a test event; transmitting the test event specified by the generated test item to said policy manager and/or said system management server; and recording a result of the system management operations which is requested by said policy manager and/or said system management server responsive to the test event specified by the generated test item, but which is redirected back to said test tool via the redirected-address information stored in said system management server.