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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2020
Buffalo Inc., Aichi, JP;
BUFFALO INC., Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A system includes a device management apparatus. The device management apparatus includes: one or more memories; and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: store user group information that defines at least one user group, each user group being a group of one or more users; store device group definition information that defines at least one device group in association with at least one user group, each device group being a group of one or more network devices; store authority information of each device group associated with at least one user group; store association information that associates each of the network devices to be objects of management with at least one of the device groups; and determine whether to permit a user operation related to a network device belonging to a device group based on the authority information of each of the device groups.