Patent ID: 7826393

Claim:
A management computer for managing switches included in a network, comprising: a processor for executing computing; a memory connected to the processor; and an interface connected to the processor and the network, wherein the memory stores switch configuration information for controlling the switches, network topology information indicating a connection between the switches, and ports configuration information indicating, for each switch, whether client authentication is executed at each port provided in the switch, the client authentication being processing for verifying whether a client connected to the port provided in the switch has permission to connect to the network, and wherein the processor is configured to: judge, based on the network topology information, for each port provided in each switch, whether the client authentication is executed; generate the ports configuration information for each switch indicating whether the client authentication is executed at each port provided in the switch based on the judgment of whether the client authentication is executed for the port; generate, based on the generated ports configuration information, the switch configuration information; and transmit the generated switch configuration information to a first switch that includes a first port at which the client authentication is judged to be executed.