Patent ID: 8707386

Claim:
A policy handling system, for managing a management-targeted system based on at least two or more policies, each of which includes description of a triggering condition for triggering the policy and operation to be executed after triggering, the system comprising: at least one processor; and a policy-operation-log storage unit which stores ID of a triggered policy and triggered time in association with each other; wherein the at least one processor comprises an abnormality detecting unit which comprises: a policy-operation-log retrieving section configured to receive a notification of a satisfied policy having a triggering condition which is satisfied and subsequently refer to the policy-operation-log storage unit to acquire a triggered frequency of said satisfied policy; a policy-execution-pattern analyzing section configured to determine whether or not said satisfied policy is abnormal based on the triggered frequency of said satisfied policy acquired by the policy-operation-log retrieving section; and an operation executing section configured to execute operation of said satisfied policy when said satisfied policy is determined normal and to stop executing operation of said satisfied policy when said satisfied policy is determined abnormal.