An alarm register stores therein failure information having a first size and related to a failure that has occurred in communication performed by each of the CPUs 103 and 104. A failure information transmitting unit reads, from the alarm register, failure information in units of a second size including a plurality of pieces of the failure information with the first size, and deletes the read failure information from the alarm register. An information acquiring unit 121 stores, in a failure information buffer 122, the failure information that has been read in units of the second size. An information notifying unit 123 reads failure information in units of the first size from the failure information buffer 122, and gives a notice of the read failure information to the CPU 103 or 104 corresponding to communication in which a failure indicated by the read failure information has occurred.