Patent ID: 8346816

Claim:
A method for physical/logical relationship mapping between resources, comprising: abstracting heterogeneous environments of physical resources, wherein a component corresponding to one management unit is defined as a physical resource; expressing each physical resource of the physical resources as a resource instance in a predetermined format to generate logical resources; grouping the logical resources in accordance with types of the logical resources, and managing the logical resources that are grouped; and analyzing a relationship between the physical and logical resources based on event data generated in managing the logical resources and data collected by abstracting the heterogeneous environments of the physical resources, thereby generating a physical/logical resource relation map and wherein the analyzing the physical/logical relationship includes: processing a request for registering resource information from a logical resource manager; periodically collecting the registered resource information; analyzing relationship between the resource information by using newly collected resource information and information stored in the physical/logical resource relation map; and transferring the analyzed relationship between the resource information as an input value to generate the relation map, wherein the processing the request for registering resource information includes: adding a resource corresponding to the resource information for which the registration is requested to a collected resource list when the request for registering the resource information is received from the logical resource manager; checking a type of the resource information based on the step of the adding; if the type of the resource information is a static type in which the information is not periodically changed, directly bringing the resource information from a designated storage; and if the type of the resource information is a dynamic type in which the information is periodically or periodically changed, setting a timer value for periodically collecting the resource information and registering a timer.