Patent ID: 8069237

Claim:
A management server in a load distributed system that executes system management of a network system, said management server comprising: an intra-system information management database in which information providing server management information is recorded, wherein said intra-system information management database is used for keeping track of information distributed among a plurality of information providing servers; and a server list management device for selecting servers to be accessed by each of one or more client systems to generate a server list of said selected servers based on said intra-system information management database and on a load status of every server included in said network system, wherein the server list includes a primary address list used for usual operation and a secondary address list used for backup purposes, when collecting information, each of said client systems references said primary address list of said server list in said usual operation in order to directly access said servers, and, if failure of a first server is detected by attempting to access said first server using an address included in said primary address list, each of said client systems accesses a second server corresponding to an address included in said secondary address list, and notifies said second server that said first server has failed, and said second server sends system failure information which indicates that said first server has failed to said management server in response to said notification, if said system failure information which indicates that said first server has failed is sent from said second server, said server list management device re-generates the server list and sends the re-generated server list to at least one or more client systems that access said first server, and the network system is formed of, at least, the one or more client systems, the plurality of information providing servers storing information to be referenced by said client systems, and a network monitoring server with a network monitoring function.