This invention relates to a central control unit of a car carried network and a method for controlling and managing the car-carried network, among which, the central control unit includes a microprocessor CPU, a CAN T/R device, a CAN controller, a CAN bus, interface, a regulated supply, an input/output interface circuit and a switch signal test circuit. The network system is composed of several electronic control units with CAN interface, the PCU and all nodes of the car-carried network keep communication therefore, the CPU stores node database originally matched, the central control unit and other nodes interact via data communication of matched data request, response and network management request and response to realize the network management of configuration, diagnosis, sleep and awaking.