Method of managing failure, system for managing failure, failure management device, and computer-readable recording medium having stored therein failure reproducing program

A system for managing a failure occurring in an information processing apparatus by reproducing the failure on a reproducing device, the system comprising:

• the information processing apparatus;
• the reproducing device;
• and
• a memory device, communicably connected to the information processing apparatus and to the reproducing device, wherein
• the information processing apparatus comprises
• a failure data generator that generates, in the occurrence of the failure, failure data related to the failure,
• a storing processor that stores the generated failure data into the memory device, and
• a position data storing processor that stores stored position data that represents a position at which the failure information is stored in the memory device into a memory included in a failed part in which the failure is occurring, and
• the reproducing device comprises
• a stored position data obtainer that obtains the stored position data from the memory of the failed part;
• a failure data obtainer that obtains the failure data from the memory device on the basis of the stored position data;
• and
• a configuration controller that changes, on the basis of the failure data obtained by the failure data obtainer, a configuration of the reproducing device so as to conform to that of the information processing apparatus.

A failure management device that reproduces thereon a failure occurring in a failed part included in an information processing apparatus, the failure management device comprising:

• a stored position data obtainer that obtains stored position data that represents a position at which failure data being related to the failure and being generated by the information processing apparatus when the failure is occurring from a memory of the failed part;
• a failure data obtainer that obtains the failure data from a memory device, communicably connected to the failure management device, on the basis of the stored position data;
• and
• a configuration controller that changes, on the basis of the failure data obtained by the failure data obtainer, a configuration of the failure management device so as to conform to that of the information processing apparatus.

A computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a failure reproducing program for causing a computer to execute a process of reproducing a failure occurring in a failed part in an information processing apparatus, the process comprising:

• obtaining stored position data that represents a position at which failure data being related to the failure and being generated by the information processing apparatus when the failure is occurring from a memory of the failed part;
• obtaining the failure data from a memory device, being communicably connected to the information processing apparatus and the computer, on the basis of the stored position data;
• and
• changing, on the basis of the failure data obtained from the memory device, a configuration of the computer so as to conform to that of the information processing apparatus.