Patent ID: 8555189

Claim:
A method for controlling a management system that monitors a status of a computer system, wherein the computer system includes a plurality of monitoring-targeted nodes including components, which are monitoring targets, and at least one of the monitoring-targeted nodes is a first server computer which includes a plurality of virtual machines as components of the first server computer; and wherein a monitoring method for monitoring the monitoring-targeted nodes or components includes: a first mode, which outputs a prescribed notification in a case where a failure has been detected in at least one of the monitoring-targeted nodes or components, a second mode, which does not monitor the status of the at least one of the monitoring-targeted nodes or components, and a third mode, which determines that the current state of the at least one of the monitoring-targeted nodes or components is normal regardless of whether the status is normal or not, wherein the third mode transitions to the first mode in a case where the status of the at least one of the monitoring-targeted nodes or components has changed; the method comprising, by the management system: (1) managing the virtual machines as monitoring-targeted nodes in addition as components, by storing relations between the virtual machines and the first server computer; (2) configuring any one mode from among the plurality of modes of the monitoring method for each of the monitoring-targeted nodes corresponding to the virtual machines and each of the components corresponding to the virtual machines; (3) acquiring information from the first server computer and the virtual machines being monitoring-targeted nodes; (4) monitoring the virtual machines as the monitoring-targeted nodes and the virtual machines as the components of the first server computer, according to a mode of the monitoring method and the acquired information; (5) receiving a request for changing a mode of the monitoring method for one of the monitoring-targeted nodes corresponding to at least one of the virtual machines; and (6) changing a mode of the monitoring method for one of the components corresponding to the at least one of the virtual machines, by refering to the stored relations, in addition to changing the mode of the monitoring method for the one of the monitoring-targeted nodes corresponding to the at least one of the virtual machines,