Patent ID: 7519697

Claim:
A computer network system including: a network circuit; a first computer fixedly connected to said network circuit; and plural connecting means provided in said network circuit and capable of connecting and disconnecting a second computer, wherein said first computer comprises resource information managing means for managing information relating to hardware or software, including a place of installation in the real world for each of the hardware or software, which are usable through said network circuit, and resource information processing means for taking out the hardware information or software information from said resource information managing means in response to a request for information relating to usable hardware or software from another computer, and transmitting to said network circuit, said second computer comprises resource information holding means for holding the hardware information or software information relating to the hardware or software that can be managed directly, and comparing means for comparing the hardware information or software information of said resource information holding means and the hardware information or software information of said resource information managing means of said first computer, and detecting a replaceable hardware or software, and when said second computer is connected to said network circuit through any one of said plural connecting means as being disconnected from the hardware or software that can be managed directly, said comparing means compares the hardware information or software information of said resource information managing means transmitted from said resource information processing means and the hardware information or software information of said resource information holding means, and resource setting means directly sets a replaceable hardware or software.