Remote management device and remote management method

A remote management device communicably connected to at least one controller, the controller allowing only direct connection to another device via a predetermined connector, the controller exchanging data with a fixed input and a fixed output destination and the controller not having a setting function of setting a data output destination and a data input destination, the remote management device comprising:

• a control unit;
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• a communication unit configured to communicate with a mobile terminal via a network,
• the control unit including:
• an input and an output control unit configured to control, in a case where data held in the controller is to be outputted from the controller to the remote management device, a setting in which at least the controller is set as an input destination and the remote management device is brought into an input waiting state such that the data from the controller is inputted into the remote management device, and to control, in a case where data stored in the remote management device is to be outputted from the remote management device to the controller, a setting in which the controller is set as an output destination and an output start instruction is issued such that the data of the remote management device is outputted to the controller;
• and
• a setting screen providing unit configured to provide the mobile terminal with a setting screen allowing a user to make the setting in which the data from the controller is inputted in the case where the data is to be outputted from the controller to the remote management device, and a setting screen allowing the user to make the setting in which the data is outputted to the controller in the case where the data is to be outputted from the remote management device to the controller.