Patent ID: 7421613

Claim:
A job execution managing system comprising: a storage device which has a plurality of physical volumes, and which is used with the physical volumes respectively assigned to a plurality of logical volumes; and an information processing device which instructs said storage device to execute a job comprising job steps; a trouble detection part which detects whether or not trouble has occurred in said respective logical volumes; and a logical volume searching part which, when said trouble detection part has detected that trouble has occurred in the logical volume used in the execution of the job as a result of the execution of the job being instructed by said information processing device, searches for another logical volume to which the physical volume contained in said logical volume has been assigned, wherein the information processing device comprises a client and a server, and a command for the execution of the job is sent during execution to the storage device from the client via the server, wherein the client comprises: a schedule registration part configured to register a schedule, the schedule being a timing at which the client outputs, to the server, the command for the execution of the job; and a schedule management part configured to manage the execution of the job steps by the server based at least in part on the schedule, managing the execution of the job steps comprising managing at which timing the job relating to the schedule registered in the schedule registration part is executed by the server and generating a notification relating at least in part to the schedule; and an execution management part configured to: receive the notification from the schedule management part; and exchange data with the server based at least in part on the job steps.