OPERATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, METHOD AND APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce time and effort of an operator in managing progress of system setting operation. SOLUTION: An operation management method includes the steps of: specifying ID of an incomplete operation from a management table that stores the ID of each operation and an operation flag showing whether the operation is completed or not, in association with each other; reading an inquiry command corresponding to the ID of the specified incomplete operation from a command storage part that stores the ID of the operation, a condition for determining whether the operation is completed or not, and an inquiry command for acquiring data for determining whether the condition is satisfied or not, in association with each other, to transmit the inquiry command to the system; determining, when receiving answer data from the system, whether the answer data satisfies the condition corresponding to the ID of the specified incomplete operation; and updating an operation flag corresponding to the ID of the specified incomplete operation in the management table, based on the determination result of the determination process. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT