Equipment management device, equipment management system, equipment management method, and recording medium

摘要

An equipment management device manages one or more pieces of equipment which are connected to the equipment management device via a network. The equipment management device includes a determining unit which determines whether a non-authenticated software item exists in each of the one or more pieces of equipment, and a license management unit which performs license management of one or more software items installed in each of the one or more pieces of equipment, based on a result of the determination by the determining unit.

主权项

1. An equipment management device including a processing unit to manage a plurality of pieces of equipment which are connected to the equipment management device via a network, the processing unit configured to:
determine whether a non-authenticated software item exists in one of the plurality of pieces of equipment; perform license management of a plurality of software items installed in the one of the plurality of pieces of equipment, based on a result of the determination; transmit a request of license authentication to the one of the plurality of pieces of equipment when it is determined that a non-authenticated software item exists in the one of the plurality of pieces of equipment; determine whether a selected mode of deactivation of the license authentication is a first mode or a second mode when a request of deactivation of the license authentication input by a user is received; and request, in a case where the selected mode of deactivation is determined to be the first mode, the one of the plurality of pieces of equipment to deactivate the license authentication and subsequently update contents of registration of a product key of a software item so as to allow re-use of the product key, or update, in a case where the selected mode of deactivation is determined to be the second mode, the contents of registration of the product key of the software item so as to allow re-use of the product key and subsequently request the one of the plurality of pieces of equipment to deactivate the license authentication.