Patent ID: 8020048

Claim:
A power-on self test program management apparatus for managing a power-on self test program of a system board in a partition which operates in units of OS using a CPU of the system board as a resource, comprising: an access unit that can access storage area storing the power-on self test program of the system board to perform read/write operation; an individual information acquisition unit that acquires individual information of the system board provided in the partition; a version number information recognition unit that recognizes version number information of the power-on self test program used in the partition; and a version number management unit that transfers a power-on self test program of a predetermined version number to the storage area of the system board accessed by the access unit according to at least one of the individual information acquired by the individual information acquisition unit and version number information recognized by the version number information recognition unit and manages the version number of the power-on self test program so that the version numbers of the power-on self test programs used in the system boards in units of a partition coincide with each other, wherein the version number management unit determines addition of a new system board based on the individual information acquired by the individual information acquisition unit and, when determining that the version number of the power-on self test program used in the partition to which the new system board is to be added is different from the version number of the power-on self test program registered in the version number management unit itself based on the version number information recognized by the version number information recognition unit, causes the access unit to read out the power-on self test program stored in the storage area of the existing system board and transfers the read out power-on self test program to the new system board.