COMMUNICATION CONNECTION SETTING METHOD

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need of setting constitution definition information in the case of requesting the connection of communication among respective system resources by managing the constitution definition information indicating the connection relation of the communication altogether in a computer system. CONSTITUTION:Plural connection requesting communication equipments 1 and connection accepting communication equipments 3 are installed in a LAN 4 which is a data communication path among the system resources, the constitution definition information indicating the connection relation of the communication among the respective system resources is stored in the disk device 13 of a connection management device 2 beforehand and the connection of the communication is managed altogether by the connection management device 2. Thus, in the case of requesting the setting of the communication connection in the respective communication equipments, the communication connection is requested only by transmitting a communication message to the connection management device 2, the connection management device 2 starts the activation of an application program after the connection accepting communication equipment 3 to be the opposite party of the connection request receives the communication message for setting the communication connection based on the constitution definition information and the connection of the communication of the connection requesting communication equipment 1 and the connection accepting communication equipment 3 is set.