| 摘要 |
The invention intends to realize access authentication by a simple method by an existing hardware construction while assuring a security when the user accesses a monitoring service display screen of a monitoring host from a client PC. In the invention, when a WEB page provided by a monitoring host apparatus is browsed from a WEB page for the administrator provided by an image forming apparatus, a device serial number of the image forming apparatus is used for the authentication, thereby omitting the authenticating operation using a log-in/account. Thus, a troublesomeness for the user or the administrator of the monitoring host to manage the log-in/account and a password can be omitted.
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