Control system, image forming apparatus, terminal apparatus, and control method

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• one or more controllers;
• and
• a communicator that communicates with a terminal apparatus, wherein
• the one or more controllers:
• determine whether the image forming apparatus is in a state conforming to a security requirement in response to a connection request from the terminal apparatus used by a user who has an administrator privilege;
• and
• transmit, to the terminal apparatus via the communicator, display information of a display screen through which a firmware updated is to be performed when the image forming apparatus is in the state conforming to the security requirement, the display screen including a selection item allowing selection of whether to display a status of the firmware update.

A control method of a control system including an image forming apparatus and a terminal apparatus, the control method comprising:

• determining, by the image forming apparatus, whether the image forming apparatus is in a state conforming to a security requirement in response to a connection request from the terminal apparatus used by a user who has an administrator privilege;
• transmitting, by the image forming apparatus to the terminal apparatus, display information of a display screen through which a firmware update of the image forming apparatus is to be performed when the image forming apparatus is in the state conforming to the security requirement, the display screen including a selection item allowing selection of whether to display a status of the firmware update;
• and
• displaying, by the terminal apparatus, the display screen including the selection item allowing the selection of whether to display the status of the firmware update based on the display information.