Patent ID: 8027967

Claim:
A setting checking information collecting method for a computer to search a system structure diagram and collect information necessary for checking setting information according to search purposes based on electronic information of the system structure diagram comprising information on components, interface connection information between the components and property information set therein, the method comprising: a step of inputting the system structure diagram and determining, for each of the search purposes, one component in the system structure diagram as a search starting component according to each search purpose stored in a search controlling information storing unit that stores information indicating data to be collected and topology information indicating whether or not a search is to be proceeded between interfaces in the components for each component or classification information thereof or a search direction or a search purpose specified from outside; a step of looking up a components/interface information storing unit in which information on the components used in the system structure diagram, information on interfaces of the components, information indicating relations between the interfaces and search purposes are registered beforehand sequentially starting from the search starting component, obtaining an interface that belongs to a component to be searched, looking up the search controlling information storing unit and determining an interface for which a search is to be proceeded according to the search purpose from among the interfaces; a step of likewise repeating a search for components connected to the interfaces for which the search is to be proceeded as new search targets and extracting information on the respective searched components or information on the interfaces or setting information of property information set therein defined as data to be collected by the search controlling information storing unit from the electronic information of the system structure diagram; and a step of forming the extracted setting information into a file and outputting the file.