Patent ID: 8775484

Claim:
A data management apparatus comprising: an analyzing apparatus determination unit configured to determine whether a data analyzing apparatus is in a communicable state for communication with the data management apparatus when configuration information data indicating a status of a server apparatus is received from a data collection apparatus; an unprocessed information storage unit configured to store a plurality of configuration information data, including the received configuration information data, once it is determined that data analyzing apparatus is in an incommunicable state; an information integrating unit configured to integrate the plurality of configuration information data stored in the unprocessed information storage unit in accordance with a predetermined condition; a stored information notifying unit configured to send, to the data analyzing apparatus, a message indicating that the data management apparatus is storing the plurality of configuration information data integrated by the information integrating unit once it is determined that the data analyzing apparatus is in a communicable state; a status determination unit configured to determine whether the configuration information data as received from the data collection apparatus is dynamic information data that changes the status of the received configuration information data; and a relationship identifying unit configured to identify a dependency relationship between two configuration information data that are determined as dynamic information data by the status determination unit from among the plurality of configuration information data stored in the unprocessed information storage unit; the information integrating unit integrates the plurality of configuration information data stored in the unprocessed information storage unit in accordance with the dependency relationship between the two configuration information data as determined by the relationship identifying unit and a change in the status of the determined two configuration information data.