Patent ID: 6243748
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A managing apparatus on a large-scale network to manage a plurality of apparatuses to-be-managed which constitute the large-scale network, comprising:a number-of-times-of-status-changes information items acquisition unit for acquiring from the apparatus to-be-managed, number-of-times-of-status-changes information, which indicates the cumulative number of times of status changes of said apparatus to-be-managed;a status change decision unit for comparing the acquired number-of-times-of-status-changes information, with the number-of-times-of-status changes information acquired last, so as to decide whether or not any status change has occurred since the last acquisition; anda status information acquisition unit for acquiring current status information of the apparatus to-be-managed from said apparatus to-be-managed as to which the occurrence of the status change has been decided by said status decision unit,wherein the number-of-times-of-status-changes information items of said apparatus to-be-managed are formed of a plurality of sorts of number-of-times-of-status-changes information items corresponding respectively to a plurality of groups into which the status information items of said apparatus to-be-managed are assorted.