Patent ID: 7675921

Claim:
An information processing apparatus connected to a first virtual network comprising: a designating unit configured to designate, as an apparatus to be managed, an apparatus on which the information processing apparatus executes specific processing, among apparatuses connected to the second virtual network; a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to said apparatus to be managed, authentication information necessary to connect to the first virtual network; a receiving unit configured to receive, from said apparatus to be managed, information indicating that said apparatus to be managed has connected to the first virtual network by using the authentication information if said apparatus to be managed has determined to be able to connect to the first virtual network by using the authentication information and has changed connection destination from the second virtual network to the first virtual network by setting a network setting information of the first virtual network; and a processing unit configured to access said apparatus to be managed and execute specific processing, when receiving information indicating that said apparatus to be managed has connected to the first virtual network; wherein the said processing unit executes a process of updating firmware of said apparatus to be managed; wherein the said apparatus is comprised in a system which is configured by the said first virtual network as a virtual network and a second virtual network different from the first virtual network, wherein routing from the first virtual network to the second virtual network is possible and routing from the second virtual network to the first virtual network is impossible in the system.