Patent ID: 7010660

Claim:
A management method for storage areas by which information on storage devices as devices to be registered is provided to an information service device in which devices with which communication by a specific protocol is possible are registered for management, wherein: each storage device holds storage areas each having a unique identifier, a network interface having a network address uniquely allocated in a network, and a matching relationship between the storage areas and the network interface, and executes transmission or updating of the matching relationship in compliance with a request received via the network; a management server managing a configuration of the storage devices acquires, from each storage area, the network address of the network interface and the matching relationship between the storage areas and the network interface; and the management server, in order to register in a database which the information service device has, transmits, to the information service device, a request for registering the identifiers of the storage areas and the matching relationship between the storage area relating to the network address of the network interface and the network interface.