Patent ID: 8452194

Claim:
A system including an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus, the system comprising: a setting unit configured to set whether a status of the image forming apparatus is immediately confirmed by a user; a transmission unit configured to transmit a file containing a status log based on a status change of the image forming apparatus, to an outside from the image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus transmits one file collecting the status log recorded at a specified period or a file generated for each recorded status log; and a display control unit configured to display a list of the image forming apparatus to be contained in the system on a screen in the information processing apparatus, wherein with respect to the image forming apparatus as to which a setting is made by the setting unit that the status is immediately confirmed, an instruction button to confirm the status of the image forming apparatus is displayed in the list, wherein with respect to the image forming apparatus as to which a setting is not made by the setting unit that the status is immediately confirmed or with respect to the image forming apparatus as to which an acquisition of a setting by the setting unit has failed, the instruction button is not displayed in the list and wherein when the instruction button is executed from the list, the display control unit executes status display of the image forming apparatus based on the status log to be contained in the file transmitted from the image forming apparatus.