Patent ID: 8631112

Claim:
A management system comprising: a plurality of management apparatuses each of which includes a first transmitting unit that, when processing devices connected to a communication unit are searched with reference to a first management table in which information of a processing device managed by the management apparatus is registered and a processing device which is not managed by the management apparatus is detected, transmits detection information of the processing device to the communication unit, and a first registration unit that, when a processing device management request corresponding to the detection information of the processing device is received from the communication unit, registers information of the processing device related to the processing device management request in the first management table; and an information management server that includes a change unit and a second transmitting unit, wherein, in the information management server, when information of the processing device related to the detection information of the processing device received from the communication unit is registered in a second management table in which the information of the processing device and information of the management apparatus managing the processing device are associated with each other, the change unit changes the information of the management apparatus associated with the information of the processing device which is related to the detection information of the processing device in the second management table to the information of the management apparatus transmitting the detection information of the processing device, and when the information of the processing device related to the detection information of the processing device received front the communication unit is registered in the second management table, the second transmitting unit transmits the processing device management request to the communication unit.