摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for supervising a device among separate devices connected to communicate on a network. SOLUTION: The method includes an process for accessing a device, a process for receiving information from the accessed device, a process for extracting parameter values describing the operation status of the device by performing syntax analysis on the received information, and a process for retrieving operation status information corresponding to the extracted parameter values from a database. The database stores operation status information in the separate devices. The operation status information is displayed to users in a form understandable to the users using the operation status information retrieved from the database. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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