Patent ID: 8606902

Claim:
A device management apparatus, which manages a virtual device that implements a cooperative function in which a plurality of physical devices connected via a network cooperate, comprising: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire an abnormal status occurring in a function of a plurality of functions of each of the plurality of physical devices that implement the cooperative function; and a display unit adapted to display the abnormal status of the function acquired by the acquisition unit as a status of each of the physical devices and display virtual device information of whether or not the virtual device is usable based on the abnormal status acquired by the acquisition unit, and wherein said display unit displays that the virtual device is usable as the virtual device information when the cooperative function is able to be implemented by using functions which are different from the function which status is acquired as abnormal by the acquisition unit, of the plurality of functions of each of the plurality of physical devices constituting the virtual device, even if the abnormal status is displayed as the status of each of the physical devices by the display unit regarding all of the plurality of physical devices.