Network management device, management method, and recording medium

Abstract

Provided is a management device that assists setting of ring topology in a network configuration of actual devices. A management device 3 is a management device that manages a network including a master device 1 and a plurality of slave devices 2 connected to the master device 1, and is provided with: an actual configuration information acquisition unit 332 that acquires, from the master device 1, actual configuration information D3 of an actual network; and a ring topology detection unit 333 that, on the basis of the actual configuration information D3, detects ring topology constituted of the plurality of slave devices 2, and identifiably displays the ring topology on an actual network configuration diagram that is displayed on the basis of the actual configuration information D3.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.