Patent ID: 8473592

Claim:
A storage system comprising: a plurality of business-use computers, each business-use computer capable of storing one of a multi-path management agent and a volume management agent; a storage subsystem to which the plurality of business-use computers are connected; and a management computer managing the plurality of business-use computers, wherein the plurality of business-use computers, the storage subsystem and the management computer are connected to one another via a communication unit, wherein the management computer includes a multi-path manager and a volume manager and a table for registering the business-use computers that are connected to the storage subsystem and storing information indicating whether or not each of the business-use computers has a volume management agent and information indicating whether or not each of the business-use computers has a multi-path management agent, wherein the management computer sequentially sends a communication request via the communication unit to a communication target that can be a management target, registers in the table a reception result associated with the transmission of the communication request in the table, determines whether or not a business-use computer that does not return a response in reply to the communication request has the volume management agent or multi-path management agent, deletes the information concerning the volume management agent of the business-use computer from the table if the business-use computer does not have the volume management agent, and deletes the information concerning the multi-path management agent of the business-use computer from the table if the business-use computer does not have the multi-path management agent, wherein the multi-path management agent is in communication with the multi-path manager of the management computer, and the multi-path management agent is agent software for replying to the multi-path manager of the management computer with management information concerning a multi-path between the business-use computer and the storage subsystem, and wherein the volume management agent is in communication with the volume manager of the management computer, and the volume management agent is agent software for replying to the volume manager of the management computer with management information concerning volume information of the business-use computer.