Patent ID: 8515802

Claim:
A management system for recommending changes of management jobs for a plurality of apparatuses included in one or more computer systems and separated into a plurality of groups, the management system comprising: a processor; a storage device, and an output device, wherein the storage device includes: inter-management-job similarity degree information including information on similarity degrees between a plurality of management jobs; management cost information including information on management costs for indicating degrees of load of the plurality of management jobs; and group management job information for indicating management jobs currently set to the plurality of groups, respectively, wherein the processor selects groups one by one from the plurality of groups, and, on each of the selected groups, performs: identifying a current management job set to the selected group with reference to the group management job information; determining a similarity degree among management jobs set to the plurality of groups after changing the current management job to a different management job with reference to the inter-management-job similarity degree information; determining at least either one of a management cost of the current management job and a management cost of the different management job with reference to the management cost information; and determining a recommendation degree of the change of the management job using the determined similarity degree and the determined management cost, and wherein the processor further creates information for presenting a pair for a recommended change of management jobs and a recommended priority degree of the change of the management job in accordance with the determined recommendation degrees in the groups selected one by one; wherein the processor uses logs of the management system collected on the management job to calculate a management cost after changing management jobs in accordance with the recommendation information; and wherein the output device presents the calculated management cost as an effect of the change.