Patent ID: 7953835

Claim:
A network management method to manage a network that includes a plurality of fabrics network switches that connect server blades in slots of blade enclosures to storage devices, said method making a computer execute procedures comprising: a reception procedure for receiving, from an operator through an input device, combinations each of which includes an IP address of a management port of a management blade and an IP address of a management port of a network switch that is connected to a server blade in the blade enclosure that contains said management blade; a first acquisition procedure for acquiring a slot number and a power condition of a slot in the blade enclosure that contains the management blade identified by the IP address of each of the combinations received in said reception procedure from the identified management blade, and for storing each of the acquired slot numbers and power condition associated with the IP address of said management blade into a first table; a transmission procedure for transmitting a request to every management blade identified by the IP address of each of the received combinations so as to turn on the power of the slots in the same blade enclosure corresponding to the identified management blade through a communication device; a second acquisition procedure for acquiring a port number of a port of the network switch identified by the IP address of each of the combinations received in said reception procedure and a hardware address of a port of the server blade that is physically connected to said port of said network switch from said network switch, and for storing each of the acquired port numbers and hardware addresses associated with the IP address of said network switch into a second table; a generation procedure for reading a record corresponding to an IP address of a management blade in each of said combinations received in said reception procedure from said first table and a record corresponding to an IP address of a network switch in said combination from the second table, and for storing the read records associated with each other into a third table; and a restoration procedure for transmitting a request to the management blade identified by the IP address in each of records in said first table whose power condition represent off so as to turn off the power of the slot identified by the slot number in each of the records through the communication device, wherein said network switches are fiber channel switches.