Patent ID: 8788636
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A controlling method in a management apparatus managing one or a plurality of computers through a network, the method comprising: receiving, in the management apparatus, a boot request from a computer; transferring a program from the management apparatus to the computer that issued the boot request, in a case that a booting process is executed by the computer, the program setting a unique identifier to a port of a connection apparatus equipped in the computer; setting, in the computer, the unique identifier to the port by executing the program; checking, in the computer, whether an initialization code of the connection apparatus to re-initialize the connection apparatus can be accessed by executing the program; and executing, in the computer, when the initialization code can be accessed, the booting process via the port to re-initialize the computer without executing a reset operation of the computer by executing the program.