Applicable patch selection device and applicable patch selection method

An applicable patch selection method, comprising:

• extracting, on the basis of information on an application target system, information on all the patches unapplied to the application target system from among information on released patches;
• extracting, in accordance with an input user's policy, information on an unapplied patch to be actually applied to the application target system from among the information on all the unapplied patches;
• and
• obtaining an unapplied patch corresponding to the information on the unapplied patch to be actually applied to the application target system.

A computer readable storage medium storing an applicable patch selection program for causing a computer to realize:

• a first extraction function of extracting, on the basis of information on an application target system, information on all the patches unapplied to the application target system from among information on released patches;
• an input function of accepting a user's policy;
• a second extraction function of extracting, in accordance with the user's policy input into the input function, information on an unapplied patch to be actually applied to the application target system from among the information on all the unapplied patches extracted by the first extraction function;
• and
• an unapplied patch obtainment function of obtaining an unapplied patch corresponding to the information, extracted by the second extraction function, on the unapplied patch to be actually applied to the application target system.