Patent ID: 7079980

Claim:
A data management system that is capable of accessing a storage device, comprising: one or more processors; and a storage region for storing one or more computer programs that allow the one or more processors to operate as a result of being read by the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors, to which the one or more computer programs are read from the storage region, acquire, at a first frequency, monitoring result data that represents monitoring results for a monitoring target, generate a monitoring result record that includes the monitoring result data thus acquired and first deletion condition data that represents a first deletion condition for the monitoring result data, and store the generated monitoring result record in the storage device; generate monitoring result summary data that represents a summary of a plurality of monitoring results represented by a plurality of the monitoring result record stored in the storage device at a second frequency that is lower than the first frequency, determine a second deletion condition for normal state when the content of the summary of the plurality of monitoring results represents normal content and determine a second deletion condition for abnormal state when the summary content represents abnormal content, generate a summary record that includes second deletion condition data that represents the second deletion condition thus determined and the monitoring result summary data thus generated, and then store the generated summary record in the storage device; specify a summary record including second deletion condition data representing the second deletion condition for abnormal state from the storage device and specify a plurality of the monitoring result records that form the basis of the generation of the specified summary record; and update the first deletion condition that is represented by the first deletion condition data of each of the plurality of monitoring result records thus specified to a second deletion condition for abnormal state that is represented by the second deletion condition data included in the specified summary record.