System management information setting unit

Claim 1

An address acquiring apparatus comprising: an address setting determination unit which determines whether setting of a network address is made or not in a client computer , the network address being an identifier on an network and being given to each computer for connecting a computer system to the network; a host name input unit which enters a host name which is an identifier for making it easy for a person to identify the computer , the host name being registered in pairs with the network address , when said address setting determination unit has determined that such network address has not been set; an address requesting unit which requests a network address by sending the host name entered by said host name input unit to a server computer storing network addresses in pairs with the host names for an entire network; an address receiving unit which determines and receives a response of the network address from the server computer; an address information setting unit which sets the network address received by said address receiving unit and the host name entered by said host name input unit in the computer system; and an address information memory which stores the network address in pairs with the host name set by said address information setting unit.