Patent ID: 8209440

Claim:
A device-configuration-information optimum arrangement method implemented in a device-configuration-information integrated management system that includes a device-configuration-information managing unit for managing device configuration information containing configuration items of a target device for management and containing relationships between configuration items and that includes a device-configuration-information integrated managing unit for integratedly managing the device configuration information obtained from a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units, the device-configuration-information optimum arrangement method comprising: managing, by the device-configuration-information managing unit, device configuration information containing configuration items of a target device for management and containing relationships between the configuration items; integratedly managing, by the device-configuration-information integrated managing unit, the device configuration information obtained from a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units; and performing optimum management by aggregating, by a device-configuration-information optimum arrangement processing unit, device configuration information that contains related configuration items, from among the device configuration information in a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units, in a single device-configuration-information managing unit from among a plurality of the device-configuration-information managing units, the performing including determining, using origin information, whether it is necessary to perform optimum arrangement of the device configuration information, the origin information being used in identifying which of the device-configuration-information managing units are managing the device configuration information to be subjected to integrated management and performing the optimum management when it is determined at the determining that optimum arrangement of the device configuration information needs to be performed.