OPERATING MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR REMOTELY MANAGING PLURAL IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSES VIA NETWORK, TEST ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM, AND TEST ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTION METHOD

摘要

Provided is a management server that is used in constructing a high-quality test environment. The management server is an operating server that is connected via a network to an image forming apparatus registered as a management target, and that remotely manages the image forming apparatus. The management server includes a data-collection unit, a connection-receiving unit, and a data-relay unit. The data-collection unit receives collection-target data from the image forming apparatus and accumulates that data in a database. The connection-receiving unit receives a connection with a test sever having the same functions as self server. The data-relay unit also transmits the collection-target data received by the data-collection unit to the test server, the connection of which is received by the connection-receiving unit. Therefore, the collection-target data is accumulated in the test server in the same way as in the management server, and can be used as test data.