Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium, for updating device information corresponding to a device among the device information stored in a storage unit, and for sending a notification for releasing an internet-protocol address assigned to the device to a dynamic-host-configuration-protocol server based on whether received information specifies a specific condition

摘要

An information processing apparatus connected via a network to a plurality of devices and a DHCP server adapted to assign an IP address to each of the devices includes a storage unit that stores device information for each of the devices, a receiving unit that receives from a second information processing apparatus a search request for searching for a device, a search unit that searches for a device in response to the search request received by the receiving unit, a sending unit that sends a search result obtained by the search unit to the second information processing apparatus, and a control unit that updates, when a device is no longer capable of communicating via the network, device information corresponding to the device among the device information stored in the storage unit and that sends a notification for releasing the IP address assigned to the device to the DHCP server.