| 摘要 |
A management server issues and stores a virtual identifier for an image forming apparatus, and manages a virtual device that includes management information about the image forming apparatus by associating the virtual device with the virtual identifier. The management server receives an acquisition request for a virtual device that includes the actual identifier for the image forming apparatus and a virtual identifier from the image forming apparatus. The management server specifies the virtual device corresponding to the virtual identifier included in the virtual device acquisition request from among the managed virtual devices. Further, the management server replaces the virtual identifier included in the specified virtual device with the actual identifier included in the virtual device acquisition request, and then returns this virtual device to the image forming apparatus. |
