b are explanatory diagrams that show an example of system configuration information according to the first embodiment of the present invention fig5 is an explanatory diagram that shows an example of a parameter sheet of the first embodiment of the present invention fig6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a comparison report of the first embodiment of the present invention fig4 a shows information related to a host name the os version number and the like fig4 b shows network related information in the system configuration information in fig4 a the host name u201c ccccc u201d is entered in the 2 nd column and the os version number u201c 12 11 u201d is entered in the 3 rd column in addition in fig4 b u201c 192 168 0 11 u201d is entered in the u201c ip_address 0 u201d field and indicates that the ip address of the computer that has the system configuration information is u201c 192 168 0 11 u201d furthermore u201c 255 255 255 128 u201d is entered in the u201c subnet_mask 0 u201d field and indicates that the subnet mask of the computer that has the system configuration information is u201c 255 255 255 128 u201d as will be readily apparent fig4 a and fig4 b only show one part of the system configuration information 112 in addition to network setting information values for the file system setting information the setting information for the kernel parameters and the like are also set in addition in the parameter sheet 120 shown in fig5 in u201c 1 system configuration u201d u201c aaaaa u201d is set for the u201c user name u201d u201c bbbbb u201d is set for the u201c system name.