Management device of hardware resources
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorKenji Tagashira
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Abstract
A management device for managing states of components. The management device includes a reading unit to read management information from each of plural components; a determining unit to refer to license information associated with management information of each component stored in a license storage unit, and to determine, based on the referred license information, whether each component is usable or not; and an operation control unit to make a component determined to be usable operate but to inhibit an operation of a component determined to be unusable.
Claims12
A management device, comprising:
- a reading unit configured to read, from each of plural components, management information identifying each of the plural components;
- a determining unit configured to refer to license information associated with the read management information of each component stored in a license storage unit, and to determine, based on the referred license information, whether each component is usable or not;
- a power source unit configured to supply electric power to each of the plural components;
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- an operation control unit configured to make a component determined to be usable operate but to inhibit an operation of a component determined to be unusable by sending control signal to the power source unit to stop supplying the electric power to the component determined to be unusable.
A management method executed by a computer, the method comprising:
- reading, from each of plural components, management information identifying each of the plural components;
- referring to a license storage unit with respect to one or more pieces of license information associated with the read plural pieces of management information;
- determining, based on the one or more pieces of license information, whether each component is usable or not;
- supplying electric power to each of the plural components by a power source unit;
- making each component determined to be usable operate;
- and
- inhibiting the operation of each component determined to be unusable by sending control signal to the power source unit to stop supplying the electric power to the component determined to be unusable.
A non-transitory storage medium storing a management program that causes, when read and executed by a computer, the computer to perform:
- reading, from each of plural components, management information identifying each of the plural components;
- referring to a license storage unit with respect to one or more pieces of license information associated with the read plural pieces of management information;
- determining, based on the one or more pieces of license information, whether each component is usable or not;
- supplying electric power to each of the plural components by a power source unit;
- making each component determined to be usable operate;
- and
- inhibiting the operation of each component determined to be unusable by sending control signal to the power source unit to stop supplying the electric power to the component determined to be unusable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.