Patent ID: 8037209

Claim:
A computer readable storage medium having stored therein a device configuration integration information managing program for causing a computer to execute a device configuration integration information managing process for acquiring pieces of device configuration information having a hierarchical structure and including components of devices managed by a plurality of device configuration information managing devices and relationships between the components and from the plurality of device configuration information managing devices, integrating the pieces of device configuration information into device configuration integration information, and managing the device configuration integration information, the device configuration integration information managing program causing the computer to execute a process comprising: acquiring the device configuration information having an expression format converted into that of the device configuration integration information; registering the pieces of device configuration information in the device configuration integration information, based on meta-information of the device configuration integration information; acquiring a piece of registration source meta-information and a piece of document structure meta-information of each of the pieces of device configuration information where the expression format thereof is converted and a piece of document structure meta-information of the device configuration information before the expression format is converted, and registering the pieces of information in the meta-information of the device configuration integration information.