FAULT INFORMATION SAMPLING METHOD

PURPOSE: To provide a fault information sampling method which supports the analysis of a fault factor by providing a step to designate the inquiry of a fault content when fault information is sampled and a step to sample the fault information as holding the state of an address space. CONSTITUTION: When abnormality occurs in an operating system provided with multiplex virtual storage function, an input means 2 informs the fault acceptance means 1 of the fault information managing program of an OS of it. The fault acceptance means 1 performs the confirmation and inquiry of the fault content from the input means 2 via the input means 2, and delivers the fault content to a fault judging means 3. The fault judging means 3 judges an inputted fault content and the state of the system, and decides a fault sampling method, and delivers it to a fault information sampling process 4. The fault information sampling process 4 outputs the fault information to a fault information output device 5, and uses it as the input information of an analyzing means 6 for fault factor. In this way, when the abnormality such as the one in which despatch is disabled after a job is executed, etc., occurs, the fault information is sampled as holding job information.