Abstract: An interconnecting device which interconnects communication in a computer network. The interconnecting device includes a first holding unit which holds a removable nonvolatile memory, a reading unit which reads a first device identifier of a first communication device, which is allowed to communicate in the computer network, from the nonvolatile memory held by the first holding unit, and a setting unit which sets a communication setting of the computer network so as to allow the first communication device identified by the first device identifier to communicate in the computer network.

Abstract: An interconnecting device for interconnecting communication in a computer network, including: a holding unit for holding an attachable and removable nonvolatile memory; a reading unit for reading authentication information of the nonvolatile memory and settings for the computer network from the nonvolatile memory held by the holding unit; an authentication unit for authenticating whether the authentication information read by the reading unit satisfies a predetermined condition; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the settings to a communication device, which performs communication in the computer network, in order to perform communication settings of the computer network based on the settings read by the reading unit when the authentication information satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A management apparatus for managing a plurality of interconnecting devices which interconnects communication, comprising: a command storage unit for storing one or more execution procedures, which correspond to a common command for managing the interconnecting devices and process the command for the respective interconnecting devices; and an execution unit for executing the command for one of the interconnecting devices, by fetching the execution procedure corresponding to the command for the one of the interconnecting devices from the command storage unit, and for communicating with the one of the interconnecting devices in accordance with the execution procedure.

Abstract: A communication processing apparatus that receives an SNMP-based command to execute the received command. A communication port, which is set as a management port, receives one or more command transmitted from a management apparatus to the communication processing apparatus, including a first command that is executable to change a setting of the management port and a second command. A storage unit stores the commands received by the communication port and an execution unit obtains the commands from the storage unit to execute the obtained commands. A re-execution instruction unit directs the execution unit to execute the second command after the first command that changes the setting of the management port, when the execution unit has executed the first command that changes the setting of the management port, such that communication with the management apparatus is maintained via the communication port.

Abstract: An address conversion apparatus that connects a first network to a second network. A receiving unit receives a first SNMP trap from a communication apparatus on the first network and a converter changes a predetermined part of the first trap to generate a second SNMP trap. A transmitting unit transmits the second SNMP trap generated by the converter to a monitoring apparatus of the communication apparatus in the second network.

Abstract: A node detecting method for detecting a node that operates as a device in a computer network, comprises: a first transmitting step of transmitting a first detection signal to the node; a first receiving step of receiving, from the node that received the first detection signal, address information of the node; a first storing step of storing in a first memory the address information of the node received in the first receiving step; a second transmitting step of transmitting a second detection signal to the node by using the address information of the node stored in the first memory; a second receiving step of receiving, from the node that received the second detection signal, classification information of the node in response to the second detection signal; a judging step of judging a classification of the node based on the classification information of the node received in the second receiving step; and a second storing step of storing the classification information of the node in a second memory to correspon