Patent ID: 8074098

Claim:
A management method of an information processing system including an active server apparatus and a standby server apparatus coupled to one another, and a management server coupled to the active server apparatus and to the standby server apparatus, which after turning on a power supply to the standby server apparatus, performs a failover from the active server apparatus to the standby server apparatus when detecting an occurrence of a failure in the active server apparatus, the management method comprising the steps of: the management server; selecting the standby server apparatus based on configuration management information, the configuration management information being held in the management server and including information indicating whether or not each server apparatus coupled to the management server is the standby server apparatus, and information indicating a status of a power supply of each server apparatus coupled to the management server; turning on the power supply to the standby server apparatus, acquiring a status of the standby server apparatus, transmitting a check program for notifying failure information on the standby server apparatus to the management server, and acquiring information on the standby server apparatus; turning off the power supply to the standby server apparatus after acquiring the information; and judging, based on the acquired information, whether or not the failover from the active server apparatus to the standby server apparatus is possible.