Patent ID: 9596124
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A design assistance device of a network system including a master device and a plurality of slave devices, the design assistance device comprising: a storage that stores instructions, and design information, the design information containing at least information of the slave devices and information of a topology in a designed network system created by a user; and a processor that, when executing the instructions stored in the storage, performs operations comprising: generating, based on information collected by the master device from the slave devices in an actual network system, actual configuration information containing at least the information of the slave devices and the information of the topology in the actual network system; comparing the design information and the actual configuration information, to identify a commonality and a difference between the design information and the actual configuration information; generating, based on a result of the comparison, a comparison screen, indicating a configuration of the designed network system, a configuration of the actual network system, and the commonality and the difference between the design information and the actual configuration information; displaying the generated comparison screen on a display; permitting the user to select a portion on the comparison screen, the selected portion being related to the difference between the design information and the actual configuration information; and modifying the design information such that the configuration of the selected portion in the design information coincides with the configuration of the selected portion of the actual configuration information, wherein the commonality and the difference between the design information and the actual configuration includes at least first, second, third and fourth statuses, the first status indicates that models, addresses and connection destinations of a slave device are in agreement between the design information and the actual configuration information, the second status indicates that the models and addresses are in agreement, but the connection destinations are not in agreement, the third status indicates that a slave device is not in the design information but is included in the actual configuration information, and the fourth status indicates that a slave device is included in the design information but is not included in the actual configuration information.