A method for managing storage devices provides a function of automatically
changing a scenario and automatically making a partial change to the
scenario according to a change in the environment, which are made
possible by executing an operation procedure according to an operation
rule for storage devices and feeding back a result of execution of the
scenario. A storage managing server contains a policy definition file, a
scenario definition file, a priority definition file, an execution result
value file, a feedback definition file, and a scenario parameter
definition file, and also obtains performance information and executes
scenarios. By using all those files and processes, the storage managing
server implements automatic management of a policy-based storage system.