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Server maintenance control device, server maintenance system, server maintenance control method, and program

US12386649B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 2020
Grant dateAug 12, 2025
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Expiry dateDec 7, 2041

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2009/45595
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A controller server includes an assignment unit that assigns devices connected to a server to virtual machines, a usage status management unit that records correspondence between the virtual machines and devices used by the virtual machines, a warning relation management unit that records types of warnings that may occur for each of the devices during maintenance, a maintenance control unit that determines an order of an instruction for suppressing issuance of a warning that may occur for the devices during maintenance and an instruction for evacuating an affected virtual machine among the virtual machines to another server, a warning exclusion setting unit that instructs the server to exclude issuance of a warning that may occur for a device due to the maintenance, and an affected user specification evacuation unit that specifies the affected virtual machine, and evacuates the affected virtual machine from the server to the another server.

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