| CPC H04L 41/0677 (2013.01) | 13 Claims |
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1. A failure location identification apparatus that identifies a failure occurrence location of a physical resource, comprising:
a processor; and
a storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, perform to:
records therein facility information including positional information of the physical resource;
records therein external factor information concerning an external factor that possibly becomes a factor that causes a failure in the physical resource, the external factor information including positional information of the external factor;
records therein influence information concerning a possible influence of the external factor on the physical resource; and
identifies the failure occurrence location at which the failure is estimated to occur in the physical resource, from the facility information and has positional information corresponding to the positional information of the external factor information, and outputs failure location information including information indicating the identified failure occurrence location, when it is determined that the external factor information influences the physical resource, on a basis of the influence information.
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