MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, LICENSE MANAGEMENT SERVER, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

A management apparatus has a storage unit that stores software information and license information. The management apparatus periodically acquires software information introduced into an information processing apparatus communicably connected to the management apparatus from the information processing apparatus and compares the software information with the software information in the storage unit. Upon detecting any difference between the software information, the management apparatus notifies a user of the detection of a change in software configuration and updates the corresponding software information in the storage unit with the acquired software information. Then, upon detecting the change request of the software configuration from the user, the management apparatus makes a request to the information processing apparatus for changing the software configuration using the corresponding license information in the storage unit and notifies the user of the result of the request.