Patent ID: 8843613

Claim:
An information processing system including a plurality of storage monitoring servers communicatively coupled to each other and being configured to manage performance information related to performance in a storage system that includes a storage apparatus and a host server that accesses the storage apparatus, and to monitor information to be monitored in the storage system, the monitoring information including therein information indicative of a configuration of I/O paths in the storage system and I/O path-related information indicating whether or not the I/O paths are similar, the storage monitoring servers each comprising at least one computer comprising: an information collecting unit configured to acquire the performance information and the monitoring information from the storage system; a path grouping unit configured to determine a similarity of the I/O paths based on the I/O path-related information and to classify the I/O paths determined to be similar into a same group; a distribution plan generator configured to determine the storage monitoring server to be responsible for managing individual performance information and individual monitoring information based on the performance information and the monitoring information acquired, the distribution plan generator determining the storage monitoring server to be responsible for managing the individual performance information and the individual monitoring information in units of the groups classified by the path grouping unit; and a distribution execution unit configured to transfer the individual performance information and the individual monitoring information to the storage monitoring server responsible for managing the individual performance information and the individual monitoring information according to a distribution plan determined by the distribution plan generator.