Patent ID: 9356836
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An administration device in a system in which a first device group and a second device group are connected to a network, the administration device comprising: a storage device configured to store relating information which relates devices of the first device group to devices of the second device group; and a control unit configured to acquire a first communication history of the first device group and a second communication history of the second device group, to convert first address information which specifies a communication source and a communication destination of the first communication history or second address information which specifies the communication source and the communication destination of the second communication history into third address information set in the devices of the second device group or fourth address information set in the devices of the first device group according to the relating information, to compare the third address information with the second address information or compare the first address information with the fourth address information according to the relating information, and to detect a setting error of the second address information set in the devices of the second device group based on a comparison result.