A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer-readable handling-method generation program causing a computer to execute a method including extracting at least one existing system, which has a predetermined similarity with a new system which is newly generated or whose configuration has been changed, based on the similarity between a system configuration of at least one existing system and a system configuration of the new system; and generating candidates of event handling methods corresponding to the new system by using handling methods corresponding to a predetermined event which corresponds to the extracted existing system.