Patent ID: 8265892

Claim:
A management apparatus comprising: a managing unit that manages production information corresponding to each of a plurality of information processing devices; a specifying unit that specifies, based on a defect notice for at least one component and the production information on the information processing devices managed by the managing unit, at least one of the information processing devices using the at least one component; a state judging unit that judges whether each of the at least one of the information processing devices is in an operable state where a processing function of each of the at least one of the information processing devices is operable in an environment in which the processing function of each of the at least one of the information processing devices is provided; and an operation restricting unit that performs operation restriction for the processing function of each of the at least one of the information processing devices according to the defect notice in response to the state judging unit judging that each of the at least one of information processing devices is in the operable state.