To solve the problem that no collection of information about an image forming device to be monitored causes an error, for example, when a schedule time arrives just after starting a monitor in a system in which information about a copying machine to be monitored is periodically sent to a server according to a set schedule in a copying machine monitoring device.

A mechanism for collecting operating information of the image forming device through a first communication line and notifying an external device of the collected operating information through a second communication line, has a collecting means for collecting the operating information from the image forming device at prescribed interval timing, an initializing means for executing initialization processing, and a control means for starting the collecting means in accordance with the initialization processing of the initializing means regardless of the prescribed interval timing.