Patent ID: 6993565

Claim:
A service processor control system comprising: a component information storage server storing component information on all of hardware and firmware constituting a product, control information for controlling at least a hardware state of a host and setting information for setting the hardware state, and connected to the Internet; a first client connected to a service processor connected to said host and said Internet, having at least a maintenance service function, as a console function for said service processor, based on said control information and said setting information, and drawing said component information, said control information and said setting information through a browser; and a second client connected to the Internet and having the browser, wherein the first client and the second client are configured to receive the component information from the component information storage server, the first client and the second client are configured to execute control relating to said service processor through said browser, thereby setting and controlling the hardware state of said host based on said control information and said setting information, said component information, said control information, and said setting information are described in XML and said browser supports XML, and the first client and the second client are configured to execute control over information on said service processor using XML including a tag for defining a type of information on hardware of said host by document type definition (DTD), the type of information being binary.