Information processing apparatus capable of appropriately providing notification of storage unit failure prediction, control method therefor, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9075705-B2
Application number	US-201313906439-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2013
Priority date	Jun 8, 2012
Publication date	Jul 7, 2015
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015

Abstract

An information processing apparatus which is capable of reducing operational costs required for the information processing apparatus equipped with HDDs having a mirroring function and a self-diagnosis function. Status information indicative of statuses of the HDDs is obtained by the self-diagnosis function which the HDDs have. Based on the obtained status information obtained, whether or not the HDDs will fail is predicted. When a failure of the HDDs is predicted, and the mirroring function is disabled, an electronic device determined in advance is notified that replacement of the HDDs is necessary. When a failure of the HDDs is predicted, and the mirroring function is enabled, the electronic device is not notified that replacement of the HDDs is necessary.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
storage units configured to have a mirroring function and a self-diagnosis function;
a notification unit configured to notify an electronic device, which is determined in advance, of information on said storage units;
an obtainment unit configured to obtain status information indicative of statuses of said storage units obtained by the self-diagnosis function which said storage units have;
a prediction un…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Hikichi Atsushi

Classifications

• G06F11/3013

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/2087

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/004 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/0766

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F11/0727

  Physics · mapped topic