Patent ID: 8862711

Claim:
A management server to confirm status information of a plurality of devices in a network, comprising: a first writer to write a status information request list having a plurality of items to confirm the status of the plurality of devices if the management server is turned on; a first communicator to transmit the status information request list to the plurality of devices and to receive status information response lists corresponding to the respective items of the status information request list from the devices; a first parser to parse the status information response lists; and a server controller to confirm statuses of the devices using the parsing results, wherein the first writer writes the status information request list as a file in the form of a workform using an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format web language, wherein at least one device of the plurality of devices responds logical true to an item in the respective status information response list of the device which can be supported by the device and responds logical false to an item in the respective status information response list of the device which cannot be supported by the device, wherein each of the devices is an image forming device, and wherein the status information request list comprises a plurality of items necessary to confirm standards, functions, performances, and specifications of the devices.