Patent ID: 7870045

Claim:
A computer system for central management of assets information, comprising: one or more host computers; one or more hardware devices; a management server; and a database for storing information used by the management server, and wherein each of said one or more hardware devices provided to said one or more host computers at least including one of a host bus adapter, a disk array and a switch, each of said one or more hardware devices comprises an input/output processing unit, an information record unit, a communications control unit, an event processing unit, a trouble management unit, a performance management unit, and a capacity management; each of said one or more host computers comprises an agent unit notifying the management server of information about assets in a device to which a corresponding host computer belongs in response to a request from the management server based on a data structure included in said agent unit in which higher and lower assets are associated and a host bus adapter, the host bus adapter is coupled with the disk array through the switch where the host bus adapter and the switch operate as a path between a host computer and the disk array; the agent unit comprises an information collection unit, an information record unit, a communications control unit, an event processing unit, a trouble management unit, a performance management unit, and a capacity management unit; the management server comprises an information collection unit, an information management unit managing information received from across each agent unit in association with said information about assets from said assets information notification unit in accordance with the data structure, an input/output processing unit, a communications control unit, an event processing unit, a trouble management unit, a performance management unit, and a capacity management unit; said data structure has an area storing data indicating higher and lower assets of current assets in the system, said agent unit generates information in which the data structure is in common among each host computer and each hardware device, and in response to a request from the management server, associates the higher and the lower assets and notifies of information having common data structure, and an application name on a host computer as a file name which is used in an application is associated with lower assets with a file name, said agent unit collects an application name and an access file, a database management system related to a database, a raw device as a lower device in a host computer, and an access file, a file system, and a raw device related to an operating system, and said agent unit collects information by issuing a command corresponding to each operating system when different operating systems are used among host computers, the obtained information is converted into a unique information format as a same information format for central management by the management server, and the converted information is transmitted to the management server.