1. A computer recovery system for recovering automatically from a fault comprising at least one computer system and a fault monitoring apparatus for monitoring a fault in said at least one computer system, wherein said fault monitoring apparatus comprises a storage section for storing and holding fault recovery information including rules for defining recovery operations when faults occur in said at least one computer system, and a recovery instructing section, when a fault occurs in said at least one computer system, for retrieving said rules previously set in said fault recovery information and for instructing said at least one computer system in such a manner that a recovery operation corresponding a rule matching to said fault which occurs in said at least one computer system is carried out.