Patent ID: 8732715

Claim:
A resource management method comprising: first specifying, by a system resource manager, a target logical resource from a plurality of logical resources respectively linked to a plurality of physical resources, based on an operation request including at least one operation target and operation type, and event list information stored in the system resource manager, the event list information including relationships between operation targets, operation types, the plurality of logical resources, a plurality of resource managers and control types, the control types including “Start”, “Stop”, and “Configure”, and the plurality of resource managers being accessible through the system resource manager; second specifying, by the system resource manager, at least one specific control type among the “Start”, “Stop”, and “Configure” based on the operation request and the event list information; sending, by the system resource manager, the at least one specific control type to a resource manager that controls the target logical resource; converting, by the resource manager, the at least one control type into at least one call interface of a target physical resource linked to the target logical resource based on control definition information, the control definition information including a relationship between the three control types and call interfaces to instruct the target physical resource to start, stop, and configure; and calling, by the resource manager, the at least one call interface to control the target physical resource.