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1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a first response unit configured to transmit a response including information corresponding to a kind of each request in response to one or more kinds of requests received from a management tool that manages the image forming apparatus, via a network; and a second response unit, the second response unit including:
a storage unit configured to store therein an item name of the information and an item value corresponding to the item name; anda control unit configured (i) to define a request used in common by various types of management tool and cause the item name corresponding to the request to be stored in the storage unit, (ii) to acquire and cause a piece of information corresponding to the stored item name to be stored, as the item value, in the storage unit, from among the information included in the response transmitted by the first response unit at the time of a first mode in which the first response unit is operated, and (iii) to control so as to restrict power supply to the first response unit and transfer to a second mode in which the second response unit itself transmits the response in place of the first response unit, in a case where a condition for transferring from the preliminarily set first mode to the second mode is satisfied and an item value corresponding to the stored item name is stored in the storage unit. |
