Patent ID: 7693980

Claim:
A management system for managing resources to be provided to a plurality of clients, the resources including a router, a server, and a plurality of storage volumes, the management system comprising; a network management system which stores network configuration information including relationship between IP address of the clients and VLAN-IDs, mad manages the router based on the network configuration information, wherein the router assigns corresponding VLAN-ID to a packet with said IP address when sending the packet from one of the clients to the server, a server management system which stores server configuration information including relationship between the VLAN-IDs, LPAR IDs and interface IDs to access at least one of the plurality of storage volumes, and manages the server based on the server configuration information, wherein the server has a plurality of logical partitions specified by the LPAR Ids which are associated with the interface IDs; a storage management system which stores storage configuration information including relationship between the interface IDs and at least one of the plurality of storage volumes to be accessed, and manages the plurality of storage volumes based on the storage configuration information wherein the plurality of storage volumes is access-controlled by using the interface IDs; and an integrated management system coupled communicatively to the network management system, the server management system mad the storage management system so that the integrated management system can manage the network configuration information, the server configuration information mad the storage configuration information; wherein the integrated management system determines configuration changes of the resources that need to be made in order to operate service with reference to the network configuration information so that the integrated management system can manage configuration of the resources on per-service basis; wherein the integrated management system which receives an event notification from one of the network management system, the server management system and the storage management system, determines a range affected by the event with reference to the configuration changes of the resources.