Patent ID: 8650227

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program, wherein the program instructs a computer to perform a process, the process comprising: storing first information into a storage, the first information indicating dependency relationships between types of plural configuration elements included in a system to be managed, and indicating a relational pattern of a reference source type and a reference destination type corresponding to each of the types of the configuration elements; acquiring relational information and type information from plural databases, each database storing the relational information and the type information, the relational information indicating dependency relationships between the configuration elements included in the system to be managed and indicating a reference source configuration element and a reference destination configuration element with respect to each of the configuration elements, and the type information indicating the types of the configuration elements; generating second information indicating dependency relationships between a certain configuration element included in the plural configuration elements and each of configuration elements indicating a dependency relationship with the certain configuration element, the dependency relationships being included in the acquired relational information; generating third information indicating that a type of the certain configuration element, a type of the reference source configuration element of the certain configuration element, a type of the reference destination configuration element of the certain configuration element, and a type of each of the configuration elements, which are determined based on the acquired type information, have a dependency relationship indicated in the generated second information; and determining whether the generated third information is coincident with the first information stored in the storage.