Management of networked devices
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshimasa Kawana
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Abstract
The present invention improves the efficiency with which the resources of a device monitoring system are used. A management server stores a device type-dependent database and a monitored device database for devices that are to be monitored by a device monitoring module. The types of information that can be processed by the management server and so on are stored in the device type-dependent database per device type. When this database is updated, notification setting information specifying information that the device is to notify the management server of is created in accordance with the details of the update and sent to the management server. The device sends events and other data to the management server in accordance with the notification setting information.
Claims11
A managing apparatus capable of communication with a plurality of managed devices, the managed devices being managed by the managing apparatus, and the managing apparatus comprising:
- a first receiver, configured to receive a status code from a managed device according to first notification setting information preliminarily specified to the managed device;
- an obtainment unit, configured to obtain maintenance information associated with the status code received by the first receiver, from a storage that stores maintenance information associated with status codes, the maintenance information being dependent on a model of the managed device;
- an output unit, configured to output the maintenance information obtained by the obtainment unit so as to be visible;
- an update determination unit, configured to determine whether or not the maintenance information stored in the storage has been updated;
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- a specification unit, configured to, in the case where the update determination unit has determined that the maintenance information has been updated, specify, to the managed device, second notification setting information that includes notification settings to which a status code corresponding to the update of the maintenance information is added.
A management method used in a managing apparatus capable of communication with a plurality of managed devices, the managed devices being managed by the managing apparatus, and the management method comprising:
- a first receiving step of receiving a status code from a managed device according to first notification setting information preliminarily specified to the managed device;
- an obtainment step of obtaining maintenance information associated with the status code received in the first receiving step, from a storage means that stores maintenance information associated with status codes, the maintenance information being dependent on a model of the managed device;
- an output step of outputting the maintenance information obtained by the obtainment step so as to be visible;
- an update determination step of determining whether or not the maintenance information stored in the storage means has been updated;
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- a specification step of, in the case where it has been determined in the update determination step that the maintenance information has been updated, specifying, to the managed device, second notification setting information that includes a notification setting to which a status code corresponding to the update of the maintenance information is added.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.