Communication setting management system

A communication selling management system for distributing communication characteristics settings to a plurality of communication entities connected to a network, the communication setting management system comprising a plurality of communication management setting apparatuses for managing a plurality of respective management domains, the system comprising:

• a setting template entry/edit unit operated by a first administrator to enter or edit a setting template that collects contents to be set for the plurality of communication entities connected to the network, with reference to information on a concrete method of setting the communication entities;
• a setting template storing unit storing each setting template entered or edited by the setting template entry/edit unit as operated by the first administrator;
• an application rule entry/edit unit operated by a second administrator to enter or edit application rules prescribing rules corresponding to the setting template, entered or edited in the setting template entry/edit unit operated by the first administrator, which is to be applied to a communication having a specific attribute;
• an application rule storing unit storing each application rule entered or edited by the application rule entry/edit unit;
• retrieval and response function unit selecting, after the entering or editing the application rules by the second administrator, an application rule from the application rule storing unit in accordance with an attribute of a corresponding destination communication entity, reading from the setting template storing unit a setting template having a setting template name specified by the selected application rule, and distributing the read setting template to the corresponding destination communication entity;
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• a contradiction detection function unit belonging to one of the management domains that mutually interchanges information between communication setting management apparatuses disposed in different management domains and detects a contradiction between the mutually interchanged information and the setting template and the application rule of the domain of the contradiction detection unit, wherein
• the management domains communicate via a network, each management domain having at least one communication entity and a communication setting management apparatus that imparts, on a management domain basis, different communication characteristics settings to respective communications between communication entities belonging to different management domains, each communication characteristics setting being managed on a corresponding management domain basis.