Patent ID: 7916748

Claim:
A method for initialization configuration of a managed device, comprising: predefining and storing initial configuration information of the managed device; detecting a message requesting for IP address assignment broadcasted from the managed device; searching in the initial configuration information for the message requesting for IP address assignment, to obtain an IP address of a Device Management (DM) interface of the managed device; sending the IP address to the managed device; upon determining that the managed device has configured its IP address as the IP address, sending an initial configuration command to the managed device; and performing automatically the initialization configuration of the managed device in accordance with the initial configuration command; wherein the initial configuration information comprises: a device serial number, a MAC address of a DM (Device Management) interface, an IP address of a DM interface, one or more IP addresses of one or more other interfaces, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) version number, an SNMP community name, configuration information of an SNMP Trap server, and information of a Sysloq receiving host.