Patent ID: 8405854

Claim:
A monitoring device comprising: a receiving unit that receives information including first use mode information transmitted from a first information processing device; a memory unit that stores the first use mode information received by the receiving unit; a creating unit that creates, when the receiving unit receives trouble information together with the first use mode information, a trouble prediction formula corresponding to the trouble information using second use mode information of a second information processing device in which the same trouble as that indicated in the trouble information has occurred; a storing unit that stores the trouble prediction formula created by the creating unit; and a determining unit that determines, when the receiving unit receives third use mode information of a third information processing device, whether or not a trouble in the third information processing device occurs in a high probability based on the trouble prediction formula stored in the storing unit and the received third use mode information; wherein the creating unit creates the trouble prediction formula corresponding to the trouble information through discriminant analysis by using the second use mode information of the second information processing device and fourth use mode information of a fourth information processing device which is operating with no trouble.