In a storage session management system in a storage area network, the
session information blocks periodically collected from the storage
devices in the network are grouped based on the information indicating
the relation between sessions. That is, since a storage session
management server in the management system integrally manages
constitution information and operation information, when there is a
possibility that circumstances such as a failure and the deterioration of
performance occur in information devices, a failure notification module
displays such circumstances and makes notification of them to a minimum
necessary range that is consolidated by a session consolidation module,
thereby a storage session can be managed without applying loads on the
respective information devices and the network.