Patent ID: 7391743

Claim:
A network system in which an administration device and one or more network devices are interconnected via a network, wherein each of the one or more network devices comprises: an IP address storage that stores an administration device IP address as an IP address of the administration device set to the device, and an device IP address as an IP address of the device; and a device IP address-containing information transmitter that, when the device is powered, transmits device IP address-containing information, which include the device IP address and other information concerning the device stored in the IP address storage, to a device to which the administration device IP address stored into the IP address storage is assigned, and wherein the administration device comprises: an administration information storage that is capable of storing a plurality of administration information items including the device IP address; administration information adding unit that stores administration information corresponding to the received device IP address-containing information into the administration information storage in the case that the administration information corresponding to the device IP address-containing information is not stored in the administration information storage when the device IP address-containing information is received; and a specific-target processor that performs predetermined processing on the network device alone to which the device IP address included in each administration information item stored in the administration storage is assigned.