Patent ID: 8725308

Claim:
A rack mounting position management system comprising: a rack having a plurality of units; and a mounted device mounted in the rack, wherein the rack comprises, for each of the units, a signal output unit that outputs a signal having a different value for each of the units of the rack, and the mounted device comprises: a signal acquisition unit that acquires the signal output from the signal output unit; a control unit that generates, by using a program, mounting position information indicating a mounting position of the mounted device in the rack based on a value of the signal acquired by the signal acquisition unit; a memory unit that stores the mounting position information generated by the control unit; and a communication unit that communicates with an outside area; and the system further comprises: a management device that is communicably connected to the mounted device, wherein the communication unit transmits the mounting position information and identification information of the mounted device stored in the memory unit to the management device.