Outputting Management Information Based on State of Managed Object

A hardware device for outputting management information relating to an event that occurs in a managed object, the hardware device comprising:

• a management information processing unit for generating, based on the event that occurs in the managed object, charts for displaying the management information relating to the event;
• a holding unit for holding relevance definition information defining relevance between the charts generated by the management information processing unit;
• a management screen editing unit for generating a management screen for managing a state of the managed object using the charts generated by the management information processing unit;
• and
• a display control unit for displaying the management screen generated by the management screen editing unit, on a display device,
• wherein the management screen editing unit:
• sets significance of each of the charts generated by the management information processing unit, based on weight information of the management information referenced to for determining an occurrence of the event, the weight information being weight information of the management information;
• generates a first management screen, a second management screen, and a third management screen, the first management screen being a screen in which a guidance image for selecting one of a plurality of chart groups relating to the event that occurs in the managed object is included and in which a chart whose significance is highest of charts belonging to the chart group is displayed as the guidance image, the second management screen being a screen for displaying the chart group selected in the first management screen, and the third management screen being a screen for displaying, in a larger display size, a chart selected in the second management screen and displaying, in a smaller display size, one or more charts relevant to the chart based on the relevance definition information;
• performs, in the first management screen, a first special display for a chart group that includes a chart whose significance is higher than a predetermined threshold, to distinguish the chart group from other chart groups;
• and
• performs a second special display for a chart, from among charts included in the chart group displayed in the second management screen, to which one or more charts are relevant based on the relevance definition information, to distinguish the chart from other charts.

A computer program product for causing a computer to output management information relating to an event that occurs in a managed object, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:

• generating, based on the event that occurs in the managed object, charts for displaying the management information relating to the event, according to predetermined definition information;
• setting significance of each of the charts generated in the step of generating the charts, based on weight information of the management information referenced to for determining an occurrence of the event, the weight information being weight information of the management information;
• generating a first management screen for selecting one of a plurality of chart groups relating to the event that occurs in the managed object, the first management screen being a screen in which a special display is added to distinguish a chart group out of the plurality of chart groups that includes a chart whose significance set in the step of setting the significance is higher than a predetermined threshold, from other chart groups;
• and
• generating a second management screen for displaying the chart group selected in the first management screen.