Patent ID: 8711405

Claim:
A monitoring device comprising: an acquiring unit that periodically acquires status information from a printer having a consumable; a first determination unit that determines a first state transition from an occurrence state of a consumable alarm to a release state of the consumable alarm, the release state being a state in which the consumable alarm is cleared, and a second state transition from the release state of the consumable alarm to the occurrence state of the consumable alarm based on the status information periodically acquired by the acquiring unit; a second determination unit, wherein if the first state transition is determined, the second determination unit determines, based on the status information periodically acquired by the acquiring unit, as to whether the determined first state transition is an apparent first state transition or an actual first state transition; and a notification unit, wherein if the actual first state transition is determined and then the second state transition is determined, the notification unit notifies an alarm relating to the consumable to an administrator, and wherein if the apparent first state transition is determined and then the second state transition is determined, the notification unit suppresses the alarm related to the consumable.